Which incident better illustrates the sorry state of the Republican Party? The aborted, post-primary Thad Cochran conference call, or the surely not-to-be-aborted, expected Cassidy grandchild?
We cats find it hard to pick.
In the Cochran call, which the Barbours orchestrated for the media in an attempt to put right-wing rage over Thad's primary defeat of Chris McDaniel to bed, GOP weaknesses were on full display when the call was hijacked by a teabag spewing racist comments. Austin Barbour was unable to cut off the intruder without ending the entire call itself — because the campaign either didn't think they needed a "mute" function or were unwilling to pay for it.
So we're left to marvel that the once-mighty Barbours not only underestimated the ability of their party's hate-filled base to upend their cocooned little world — they've supplanted the Romney campaign as Exhibit A of Republican technological helplessness.
Meanwhile, one state over in Louisiana, Republican Senate candidate Bill Cassidy has announced that his 17-year-old daughter is pregnant out of wedlock. Surely this is a failure of GOP family values, which more and more appear to not exist (see McAllister, Vance, otherwise known as "the kissing Congressman"). But wait, here's the real mind-bender: Both Cassidy and his wife are medical doctors.
Two physicians couldn't educate their daughter on effective birth control? If that's not an example of Republican head-in-the-Bible denial of science, we cats don't know what is.
Since it's impossible to choose one of these symbols of GOP demise over another, we cats will simply point to the Supreme Court — which has just descended into a Republican-boys-versus-Democratic-girls civil war over the very birth control that the badly parented Meg Cassidy should have been using.
We're glad we're on the side of reason when it comes to stuff like this. It makes us PURR.
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