By SnifflesBack in November 2008, as his party's fortunes were crashing around him, former Congressman Tom Davis warned his fellow Republicans that the GOP had "basically become a white, rural, regional party, and not a national party."
Considering all that's happened in the year and a half since, we cats are wondering how Mr. Davis feels about his prescience today. For example:
The Governor of Texas has openly embraced the idea of secession.
The Governor of Virginia thinks his state should celebrate the history of the Confederacy — as long as slavery is not mentioned.
The Republican Party in Kentucky is running Jefferson Davis for Senate. (Or is it Nathan Bedford Forrest? So hard to decide...)
Florida attorney general and perennial Sunshine State Republican candidate has taken the lead in suing to block the new healthcare law, joined by his fellow GOP attorneys general in five Southern states.
Republicans at the national and state levels — not to mention their fellow travelers, the teabaggers — have spent the last two to three years e-mailing, disseminating or displaying racially tinged anti-Obama posters, photos, signs, cartoons and song parodies in an orgy of sophomoric hatred.
Gee, Tom Davis — we cats don't know what line of work you're in right now, but you could certainly become a psychic!
CORRECTION: We cats apologize. There actually IS a Geoff Davis who is a Congressman from Kentucky. The fact that the GOP's Senate candidate in that state is a fellow-traveler of the first and only Confederate President is, we assume, a total coincidence.
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