The Republicans
Poster Children for Unintelligent Behavior

As far as I can tell, the Republicans are working very hard, very hard at digging themselves a deeper hole and thereby further alienating themselves from the public as a whole. It seems to be a rather graphic illustration of how out of touch they are. I suppose that if you believe that the most important thing is having access to media like Fox News whenever you want to engage in political commentary, which seems to be any time of day anymore, then this becomes an end in itself.

Part of the behavior that they have chosen is to start with the premise that the American people have no memory. No memory of the Republican policies that caused some of the problems we have, so they pretend that it was the Democrats that caused them. Not smart.

Another part is absolutely no acknowledgement that anything that Obama is doing has any good to it. Also not smart. Even W didn't do everything completely bad. When you get to the point of sounding like you're against everything Obama wants, like less dependency on foreign oil, better relations with other countries, a better environment, better healthcare, you'd better sound like you have some sensible alternatives. Here's a clue: the old policies got us where we are now, so suggesting we go back to them is not sounding like there are signs of intelligent life in the Republican party.

It's easy, very easy to be anti-something else. But it's also very dumb to be anti-everything about someone else. Sooner or later you have to be for something, or you'll be dismissed come the next election. Maybe the Republicans will go the way of the Whigs, and simply become irrelevant. It's up to them.