Those Republican presidential candidates! From the basement, to a crawlspace in the subbasement, and then, in their Detroit "debate," to the molten core of the earth where if we're lucky they'll all soon be vaporized. I remember the days when one of their recurring complaints concerned "the coarsening of American culture," which, in their pronouncements, was the fault of Hollywood and liberalism in general. One good thing about this political season to date is that it would now require a lot of chutzpah for them to take some time off from talking about who has a big dick in order to revive that old theme. Nevertheless, I wouldn't be surprised.
Probably forecasts of the demise of the GOP are overstated, but it's easy to see how the current "campaign" might induce optimism. For the people I grew up among, voting Republican was a long and mostly unexamined habit, like brushing with Crest instead of Colgate. They had moderate views, didn't think too much about politics but assumed all would be better if their taxes were lower, and never noticed over the years that the people they were voting for were becoming progressively more distasteful. But it's hard not to notice now.
Chris Christie hasn't noticed, however. I had him pegged for a sane bully, but there he was, standing behind Trump at that bizarre-o "press conference" on Super Tuesday, an overfed gargoyle of a prop meant to make Trump look "presidential." Some still call it "the party of Lincoln." Oofda.
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