WhimsyLand

My dad is a Republican.  So is my mom, by default.  Also, my younger sister, but she lives in Orange County, so I'll cut her some slack.  Also, my brother, but he works for Big Pharma and probably doesn't know any better.  They are probably leaning this way, in their not-too-involved, gee-things-seem-a-little-more-FUBARed-than-I-expected-when-I-voted kinda way:

Seriously- what does the current Republican party stand for? Permanent war, fear, the nanny state, big spending, torture, execution on demand, complete paranoia regarding the media, control over your body, denial of evolution and outright rejection of science…Hillarycare doesn’t scare me as much as Frank Gaffney having a line to the person with the nuclear football or Dobson and company crafting domestic policy.

That is why the Republican party is in shambles. The majority of us have decided that the movers and shakers in the GOP and the blogospheric right are certified lunatics who, in a decent and sane society, we would have in controlled environments in rocking chairs under shade trees for most of the day, wheeled in at night for tapioca pudding and some karaoke.

From The Republican Decline by John Cole.