So the tea party is wounded and Chris Christie is the face of (R)

[Justin]

Quoted for truth. I identify as libertarian, rather than a Libertarian. Fiscal conservative, social liberal. If the GOP wants to remain viable, they need to drop the pseudo religious demagoguery and concentrate on reducing the role of the federal government in our lives, returning power to the state and local governments.

Quoted for truth.

We live in an era of crushing government debt, out of control inflation, a government that spies on its own citizens on the thinnest of justifications, regularly violates the constitution on an hourly basis, detains citizens without due process, bombs foreigners based on shady justifications, dumps hundreds of billions of dollars down a huge hole pursuing an unwinnable drug war (throwing doctors and patients alike in prison on the say-so of some DEA agent with an Associates Degree in "criminal justice", and the biggest issue the Republicans can latch onto is the fact that some gays somewhere are wearing wedding bands while ass-fucking each other, and/or that a woman opts to terminate a pregnancy before the zygote even has a nervous system?

I'm sorry, but those issues don't even rate bothering with for anyone who's under 50, and actively drive most voters away from the Republican party.

So, if the Republicans want to continue to lose elections, by all means, they should continue to nominate crackpots whose stock in trade is scaring the bejesus out of little old ladies who faithfully go to church every Sunday.