The Face of GOP Lunacy

I've written how a few thinking conservatives seem to be realizing that it is time that the party rank and file stop drinking the mind altering Kool-Aid actively dispensed by the lunatic Christianist element within the party. For their honest assessment of where the country and society are evolving, these semi-sane individuals typically are called traitors and subjected to personal attacks. David Frum is one such conservative. Kathleen Parker is another who back during the election faced all kinds of abuse for conceding that Sarah "Bible Spice" Palin was not ready for prime time (in my view, she never will be). Now, Townhall.com has a column by professional Christian and anti-gay extremist Matt Barber who in his wild delusions believe that the GOP has lost its way because it is not reactionary and theocratic enough. Hopefully, the Christianist base will continue to destroy the GOP to a point where either the party collapses or a coup effort succeeds it expelling the hate merchants of the Christian Right. The truth is that the Christianist have no reality except the one they fabricate in their own minds and it differs from that of the majority of Americans. Here are highlights of Barber's rant:

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Today we find an improvident Republican Party lost in the political wilderness. As the GOP seeks to find its own Promised Land – a return to majority leadership – it has, to its own detriment, rebelled against the core conservative principles solemnized within its own party platform. In a “big tent” effort to be all things to all people, the GOP – charmed by a gaggle of “moderate” RINOs (Republicans in name only) – has taken a hard left, hustling along in exactly the wrong direction. As a result, that elusive Promised Land shrinks in the rearview mirror with every “centrist” capitulation.

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Despite the party platform explicitly affirming unborn children's “right to life which cannot be infringed,” current RNC Chairman Michael Steele recently chose to parrot the DNC’s pro-abortion talking points

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But the enigmatic Steele didn’t stop there. While addressing the highly polarizing issue of homosexuality, he flippantly cast aside the GOP’s moral values banner, sounding off like a spokesman for the “gay” activist Human Rights Campaign. Taking a jab at the untold thousands of ex-“gay” Americans who have found freedom from the homosexual lifestyle, he opined, “I don't think I've ever really subscribed to that view that you can turn it on and off like a water tap. You just can't simply say, oh, like, ‘Tomorrow morning I'm gonna stop being gay.’”

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Then, to a liberal’s delight, he wrapped up his pro-“gay” exposé, by falsely equating changeable homosexual behavior to his own immutable skin color, concluding, “It's like saying ‘Tomorrow morning I'm gonna stop being black.’”

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If the GOP ever wishes to reverse its spiral into the abyss of irrelevancy, it must, in word and deed, make a bold, unapologetic return to the fiscally conservative and socially conservative policies that fueled the Reagan revolution.

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Yet, as we plunge headlong into the dark age of social and economic Obamunism, the GOP inexplicably continues to treat complete conservatives like that crazy uncle you only have over for Thanksgiving. When election season rolls around, it’s all hugs and kisses. After the returns – not even a phone call. Well, complete conservatives have finally taken their ball and gone home. And, until the GOP finds the moral compass it so long ago tossed in the unforgiving wilderness sand, it’ll just have to keep pitching to Independents, liberal Republicans and moderate Democrats.

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I'm sure the thought has never crossed Barbers mind that maybe,just maybe, he and other Christianist loons likehim ARE REALLY CRAZY and that a majority of Americans have figured that out.