Jack Cafferty pulls out the five-inch guns on the GOP in his latest column, saying that they're on the verge of becoming a "cartoon".
After laying out some of the more egregious examples of Repub idiocy--Bobby Jindal's fumbling of grammar, Sarah Palin's per diems and Michael Steele bowing and scraping before Rush Limbaugh, Cafferty gets to the point:
If the Republicans are ever to emerge from the long dark night they have created for themselves it will have to be without pandering to the right wing nuts that comprise Rush Limbaugh's radio audience. Didn't they learn anything in the last election?
With more of his usual bluntness, Cafferty says the Goopers, with their new strategy of being merely the "party of no," don't realize this mess is of their own making.
But instead of getting on board the change train and recognizing the incredible amount of damage their people had done to the country, Republicans go blithely along as though nothing has happened. They're busy obstructing Obama's programs and criticizing the Democrats' spending plans that are aimed at trying to bring the country out of a horrible recession.
I hate to break it to them, but a lot has happened. And they're not going to like any of it.
Among the bad news Cafferty points out--the latest NBC/Wall Street Journal poll says that Democrats are more trusted to get us out of the economic mess by a whopping 30 points, and the GOP's favorability rating is the lowest on record. And yet, the Repubs are so obtuse that party activists' three top candidates for president in 2012 right now are Mitt Romney, Ron Paul and Sarah Palin. A list like that, Cafferty says, is proof the Repubs are "marching double-time into irrelevance and they don't even know it."