FTA: Does the GOP need rudderless, self-defeating representatives who embrace pop culture demagogues on the Left while castigating the incivility of the “extreme Right?” Hell, no.

Silly girl. The GOP is LOADED with rudderless, self-defeating critters of varying shapes and sizes. And they don't castigate the incivility of the right, they applaud it...wallow in it...they live and breathe incivility.
What fuckin' planet is this transplanted imbecile from, anyway?

You have shaken down, and compressed the essence of wingnuttry to perfection.

I will save this.....especially the Ayn Rand reference......thank you, very much. I know damn well most of these asshats are probably still trying to make it through Atlas Shrugged, or at least the Cliff Notes.

They are clueless on all accounts. They have no united agenda, so they stumble on to Rand, and try to forge an identity....Who is the GOP is the question here. If they had read the book, they would know the question, "Who Is John Galt," is freakin' rehtorical.

Ms Malkin:

Go Fix Yourself.

I watched Rachel Maddow's interview with Ms. McCain.
Granted, she is very young (a fact she kept reminding us of), but she has a very tough row to hoe trying to be a voice of reason in a wilderness of wingnuttery.

Fixed ideological principles.

Ms. Malkin misuses the the term fixed. What she means is slowly evolving. If she was really a believer in fixed ideology, then she would be out gathering nuts and berries while her mate was out hunting woolly mammoths.

So now that we have established that she really believes in a slowly changing ideology one can observe that she is criticizing Meghan for allowing her ideology to change too quickly.

I say that the ideologues should put their money where their mouth is. Ms. Malkin has allowed her ideology to change too rapidly. She should be out gathering nuts and berries. Since she surrounds herself with nuts, this should be a cake job.

My only fear is that the GOP will comeback with a superReagan character. They are so beaten down and whether they want to believe it or not have some LIBERAL believers in their party.

Also, Meagan is a great example of young republicans from my generation. She has many many liberal beliefs and philosophies but doesn't realize it. Most of these children are republican because their Mommy and Daddy are so they must.

Moreover, I think it will take eight year of President Obama for the GOP to develop a message, party, some fiscal credibility to produce a leader. If this happens and they actually drop the hate, fear, racism and just become the party "Treasury Guardians" than maybe I would vote for them. But only after we have universal healthcare, high speed rail, green energy, cheap electric cars, a protectionist foreign policy, 1/4 of defense spending, improved education, government regulated banks, coercive monopolies busted and hookers and blow for all. Then and only then will I vote for a fiscal conservative.

Oh shit...forgot a real progressive tax code that isn't just progressive through the middle class but into the upper class as well.(Thanks Elvis)

Joe -

I my entire lifetime the GOP have been teh 'Guardians of the Treasury' only when a Democrat has been in the White House. For the past 50 years the largest deficits have always been with GOP control of the White House.

The GOP may pretend to be fiscal conservatives, but the only real fiscal conservatives appear to be in the opposition party. The GOP is only fiscally conservative when the spending will directly help citizens. If the spending goes to corporations that fund their campaigns, then they are in favor of spending trillions.

The GOP moto appears to be trillions for corporations but not a penny for citizens.

The GOP does not now, nor will they ever represent *your* interests. The sad truth is that the Democratic party is only slightly better. However, the Democrats have my loyalty since they are on the correct side of many social issues and they seem to actually think about ordinary citizens once in a while. (Note that I am speaking of the party in general. The party has certain members that speak for the ordinary citizen all the time. Denis Kucinich springs to mind as example number one and he is not alone.)

Fixed ideological principles. If this is the view of the broader Republican Party, they're in deeper trouble than we expected because clearly the lessons of George W. Bush, and how his "fixed" positions destroyed his presidency, his party and, almost, America, are having no impact whatsoever on how they move forward.

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very well written, sir

GItheJoe, the GOP has been dreaming of the second coming of St. Ron since the moment his term ended. Remember the Republican Primary debate at the Reagan library where all 12 candidates jumped up and claimed the mantle of St. Ron like they were extras in the movie Sparticus? "I am Ronicus!" "No, I am Ronicus!"

Right now, they're in disarray because they have no articulate, charismatic leader who can sell their message. Of course, their other problem is that their message is one of more economic disaster, but they believe they can get around that with a littler rebranding.

The real problem of the GOP is that they have the mentality of a marketing director who just found out that their product causes cancer in small children and puppies. They're desperately trying to figure out a way to make that look like a positive.