Political Animal: Horrified DC insiders wondering 'Where are the adults?'

[BurtWorm]

There's no smiley obscene enough to make the gesture to these effete assholes in DC that I'd like to make toward them.


http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_09/025669.php

'WHERE ARE THE ADULTS?'.... The Politico item on yesterday's primary results was interesting, if for no other reason because it offers a sense of the deep frustration within the Republican Party establishment about the decisions of its base.

<T>he Delaware results, in particular, were a shock to Republicans who were previously able to find some plausible explanation for why one of their incumbents or top candidates had taken a loss. Castle, unlike Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Robert Bennett, went after O'Donnell aggressively, exposed some damning information about what Rove called her "checkered background," and hadn't been the target of notable dissent within the state party.

But voters shrugged their shoulders.

"People didn't care," lamented one GOP strategist involved in the race, referring to the reaction to reams of oppo research on O'Donnell.

Well, no, they didn't. But that's largely the result of the Republican Party telling its most loyal voters not to care about substance, and to prioritize ideology above all.

If nothing else, the 8 primary election defeats suffered by NRSC-favored candidates this year indicates the lack of a unified command structure within the GOP now. It has, in effect, become an uncontrolled and ungoverned party in which the powers that be in Washington are mere bystanders.

"Where are the adults?" one strategist wondered.

I know this one: they're gone because you drove them out of the party. The adults were labeled RINO sellouts who compromised instead of fighting.

The only real surprise here is that Republicans are surprised. Frankenstein didn't like his monster very much, but he still had to live with the consequences.

[Skidmore]

1. These idiots have been faced with the spectre of giving up

the perks and the cocktail circuits and the lobbyists' wining and dining of them. Wonder if they have a clue as to the fact that they don't actually wield power but are wielded by power. Stooges and flunkies all.

[butterfly77]

2. They created it..

What in the hell do they think they have been doing for the past two years and well before that this is what they have wrought..

[Kalyke]

3. The FrankenTea Monster

...wishes I had Photoshop...

But I can find a photo of the monster sipping tea!

[BurtWorm]

5. That's brilliant!

:thumbsup:

[Beetwasher]

4. Radical Tea Baggers Practice Faith Based Voting, Facts Don't Matter

And the Repubs have no one to blame but themselves that they are now at the mercy of this monster.

[kimi]

6. To get some more perspective

I'm almost tempted to wander on over to FR and see what they're yapping about.

Almost.

[BurtWorm]

7. You can get a sense of how lost in loonyland Repubs are by reading comments on a Yahoo news post

:wow:

[femrap]

8. Didn't the loonie fundies

take over the repugnant party at the grassroots/county level?? The 'sane' repugs were booted out.

Serves them right. But I'm not letting my guard down.

[damntexdem]

9. Where are the adults? Well, the GOP specializes in adultery.

Does that help?

;-)

[mainer]

10. Same thing's happening here in Maine

where a tea party candidate got the GOP nomination for governor. Maine GOP regulars are horrified and some of them are moving toward the Independent candidate instead (who's actually a pretty good guy with liberal roots and environmental chops)

[BurtWorm]

11. How do these baggers feel about Snowe and Collins?

When is Snowe up again? 2012?

[mainer]

12. The baggers think of the senators as traitors

and establishment stooges. But the ladies are too popular to ever overturn, even by Dems.