Heh. Righties are so cute when they're in desperate denial. When the contradictions in what they believe start to become overwhelming, indefensible, they divert & attack.
The reason that the Repub contenders for the presidential nomination are so miserable is because they have to win that nomination with the votes of people who function on the basis of ideological twaddle, the Repub base.
Yep- magical thinking will solve all our problems.
How is that any different than how democrats find their candidate? Of course they will be more ideological than the general population. It is the party voting for their guy. It is how the democrats shit out John Kerry in 2004 and skipped over Hillary in 08.
20 years ago, the radical wing of the Repub party set out to propagandize & radicalize their base, and the party itself.
And they've succeeded, but failed to account for the law of unintended consequences. That radicalized base has been winnowing the selection of future leaders. So it's a self reinforcing phenomenon. If the leaders don't pander to an increasingly delusional base, they can't obtain their party's nomination. And yet in doing so they turn off more & more swing voters.
Not to mention that the seniority system in Congress puts the most radical Reps & Senators at the top of the heap, simply because they have the most delusional voting base keeping them in place.
It's gotten so bad that even a fairly radical Rightie like Boehner has trouble holding his caucus & leadership together. They've created a monster, but they can't let go of it, and they can't moderate because their base has become less than rational, thoroughly propagandized. You can't back away from that, at all, or they'll attack you, too...
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