Just because you've picked sides doesn't mean your side is all saints, and the other is all devils. The truth is always in between, and there is no black and white, only shades of gray. But you have to pick sides, because even if you realize yours is flawed, the other is intolerable.

And I don't buy this equivalency theory, or this idea of symmetry, either. The Right is worse, and they're getting even more worse every day. And they're getting worse faster. The whole GOP is locked in a death spiral to fascist Gotterdammerung. The Democrats are merely corrupt and incompetent.

I don't think all Republicans or Conservatives deserve to get tarred with that brush, in fact, I'm convinced most are well aware of the catastrophe and terrified it is happening. But the GOP has been taken over by this TParty faction and they are ruthless with their own when they don't fall into line. The Conservatives who are not directly infected with the virus are too intimidated and bullied to do anything about it. Or have paid a stiff price for trying. Only a handful have had the balls to stand up to the thugs and they have been driven out of their political careers.

Sorry, but that's the way I see it. I used to disagree with people like the Elder Bush, Or John McCain, or Bob Dole, but I was never scared of them, and I was confident the country would survive them without permanent damage. In the last election, only two of the potential Republican candidates were even remotely acceptable as human beings, Romney and Huntsman.

THe rest were grotesque caricatures, either batshit crazy or downright evil. No, not "too far right", I mean really crazy or evil. In fact, several of them were both.

You saw the list, for crying out loud: Cain, Perry, Bachman, Huckabee, Palin, Trump, Santorum, Paul and Gingrich (with people like Alan West and Joe Walsh and that I-am-not-a-witch lady lurking in the shadows). I realize most thoughtful Conservatives regard this posse of haploid misfits and walking undead with total astonishment and disbelief, but this is what the Party is now considering a fair and representative cross-section of the Right! And those same thoughtful Conservatives are too afraid to speak out...not a peep.

What hath GOP wrought?