Quote of the Day: Why the GOP Is Losing Non-Angry While Voters

As a former Republican from a family of Republicans I often lament the ugly, horrible that the GOP has become.  It is devoid of compassion, filled with extreme religious zealotry, and open racism.  Thinks were not always this way.  Yet the GOP leadership and certainly the party's delusional base cannot grasp why more and more people are not buying into the party's supposed pro-working class agenda (not that one actually exists).  Andrew Sullivan sums up the situation well:

Before Asians, Hispanics and all the other groups can be won with economic plans, they need to feel respected and understood by the G.O.P. . . . . This is what so many on the right just don’t understand. Their very arguments against universal healthcare and gay marriage and immigration reform are all made as if the working poor, gays, and illegal Latino immigrants were not in the room. You think we don’t hear that in the tone and content of what they are saying? It’s the way in which people who desperately need healthcare are dismissed as abstractions, or in which gays are never offered any actual policy but avoidance and disdain, or in which hard-working immigrants – living in a kind of radical insecurity no white native-born Republican has ever fully experienced or imagined – are simply told to hang around for a few more years, or “self-deport”. That bespeaks a disconnect that obscures any capacity to govern this country as it actually is – rather than as they would like it to be.

We are listening and we know that the GOP base sees us as not even fully human.  Likewise, we get the message that there is little concern about our lives or our very survival.   Here in Virginia, this aspect of the GOP is all too clear in the form of the insane statewide slate of candidates nominated for the 2013 elections.