We cats have been pondering the state of the Republican Party.
Honest! We're seriously pondering it — and not necessarily with total schadenfreude, although there's still a lot of that. But now that the GOP has jumped the shark on everything — from the debt ceiling to guns to abortion to immigration to voting rights to UN treaties to.... oh, let's stop — the funny parts are starting to wear off, and we're wondering where we all go from here.
For clues, we beamed into that malevolent little corner of the Internet, Free Republic, to see their reaction to Colin Powell's candid characterization of the Republican Party on yesterday's "Meet the Press." If accusing the GOP of a "dark vein of intolerance" was a cunning Powell plan to drive attention away from the party's war on women (and its strange obsession with rapists' sperm), the Freepers' outrage is proof that they weren't in on the plot.
Mostly, they attack Powell personally, because that's really all they know how to do. But amid all the flying insults, vitriol and name-calling, it didn't take long for somebody to say this:
"I don’t doubt that there are pockets of prejudice within the GOP, but they’re nothing compared to the millions of government-dependent 'victims' that now inhabit the crime-ridden ghettos the [Democratic] party created for their own power."
And then there's this little gem:
"The sad fact is there is no reasoning with almost the entire Black population of this country."
Hm. As the formerly grand old party heads off to its annual retreat this week, we cats would like to give it some advice: Give it up, guys. You can no longer appease the nuts you've been kowtowing to all these years. In the next few months, you'll have to do some actual, responsible governing — and if your crazy base and your teabagger Congressmen take on a walk on you because of it, let them go.
Sure, after they split away you'll lose a ton of elections for awhile. But at least you'll still exist.
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