Republicans outraged Obama usurped their 'Daddy party' throne

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13. The problem is...

As fun as it is to see the GOP lose an issue they never deserved to begin with, and as someone else said in this thread, they lost it as much through incompetence as anything else, it isn't fun to see them lose it by democrats being more GOP than the GOP. Much of his defense policy would easily fit in a GOP administration. He executed the Bush SOFA, and kept on Gates, Patreaus, et. al. ramped up Afghanistan, bombed the crap out of Pakistan and Lybia, and went to the Nobel and argued FOR war. Where's the "democratic" brand in all of that? Where's the differentiation with the GOP?

The problem of course is how could he? When the two parties consist of the nut jobs, and everyone else, anything you do comes across as "democratic" as long as it's not bat shit crazy. When hawks fit in the party along with doves, when you have people arguing for keeping Gitmo open from the democratic leadership, and when you have democrats defending defense expenditures on systems even the DoD doesn't want, how can we ever have a "debate" in this country on national defense? It ends up being an "argument with ourselves".

We need the nutjobs OUT of the GOP, so the sane people can return and we can start to have rational discussion on a rational basis about the direction this country needs to go.