GOP: The Party That Can't Shoot Straight

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ROBERT KUTTNER

By all accounts, this was the Republicans’ election to win: an economy stuck at a level insufficient to generate enough jobs or income gains; a somewhat disillusioned Democratic base; and a stunted generation of young adults who supported Barack Obama last time by a margin of 71-29 and are unlikely to do it again.

Yet Obama’s lead keeps widening. It’s worth unpacking why.

The most obvious reason, of course, is the sheer clumsiness of Mitt Romney, God’s gift to the Democrats. If a computer had been asked to generate a candidate guaranteed to alienate independents and divide his own base, it could not have done better.

The far right’s effort to “let Ryan be Ryan” only shines a spotlight on the unpopularity of the GOP’s designs for Medicare and Social Security, while Romney’s serial gaffes lead Senate candidates in swing states to disparage their party’s nominee and right-wing commentators to weep.

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[Th1onein]

1. I don't think it's that the GOP can't shoot straight. Rather, they are showing

who they truly are, and who they truly represent. It is a natural course of things. They used to wrap themselves in the American flag and talk about American values; never talking about what that really means: the loss of very popular social programs. Now, they're coming out and telling Americans what those "American values" are: gutting Social Security and ending Medicare as we know it.

I always knew that they would have to come out, sooner or later, and say what they really want: Slaves to work until they fall dead. I never thought that the American electorate would perceive this before the Republicans had bought the power that they needed to move us down this road. But they did. Americans have figured it out. Bush taught us a great lesson.

I only hope that our memory is long enough to retain it until the demographics become so overwhelming that there is no hope of the Rethugs ever winning an election again.