The Republicans have a unique history of surviving corrupt extremists. Remember Joe McCarthy? Alcoholic Senator rampaging about the country with his anti-Communist message? Even Eisenhower was afraid of him.

Now, add Richard Nixon. Watergate and all the associated crookedness.

Throw in Ronald Reagan and the Iran-contra affair. Ollie North dealing cocaine to people in the US, the entire bunch acting against the law, and worshiped by Conservatives.

Now add GWB and Dick Cheney, starting an illegal war and selling it to Americans with lies.

They always bounce back, as corruption is not the exception as we'd like to believe, it's the norm. We don't want to face that.

It's obvious that the rare periods of Democratic administrations are necessary to help the country recover from Conservative, extremist, fundamentalist administrations. Republican has been, as demonstrated by their actions, synonymous with corrupt. It's not anything we want to believe, however, so each time we regard it as an aberration. It's not.