The Crazies Have Taken the Asylum

Tampa should be an interesting show in the coming months: with the GOP convention we can expect the entire circus side show to arrive, complete with those who:

1. Deny climate change
2. Believe that gays can be "cured"
3. Think that the only response to multiple gun murders over the last few years is for more citizens to carry guns
4. Are convinced that Legitimate Rape (?) can't result in pregnancy
5. The federal government is the problem instead of the tool of the problem

And of course the American Taliban will be out in force, waving their bibles as if they were bludgeons, hoping to fasten their heavy yellow incisors onto the jugular of American society to drag us back to the Dark Ages. What do Afghanistan and the Tea Party have in common? An excess of weapons and a fanatical belief that their way of thought is God's way of thought and anyone who dissents should be "marginalized."

What's a guy like Mitt to do? He wants to attract more "moderates" and "independents" to his flag but one glance at this People of Wal-Mart crowd has got to be off-putting to anyone capable of reading complex sentences and with a fair knowledge that Flat Earth theories are bunk.

Just recently Crazy Akin declared the madness of rape vs. pregnancy, much to the chagrin of the moderates within the GOP, who promptly reacted with due anger and condemnation. They demanded he step but, in a show of how little control the Sane Middle of the GOP has over their base, Akin has refused and, in fact, it has been revealed that Akin's supporters have continued to funnel money his way.

This is no surprise to anyone who's been paying attention. Though Akin's words were obviously ignorant and hysterical, they nevertheless reflect the thinking (?) of many in the GOP.

And so the Sideshow will rage on, with the typical Rogue's Gallery of Tea Party loonies: Michelle Bachman will be there, spouting her typicl inane misinformed biblical hysteria; Herman Cain will be there too, representing the Kill the Federal Government mantra of the Corporate New World Order; and, of course, we'll have The Donald, perhaps the purest member of the Tea Party loonies, flapping about with his ridiculous hair, harping on about Birther this and Birther that.

Meanwhile we have a sideshow sideshow with Ron Paul exploiting a gap in the Republican Party rules to allow the presence of the Libertarian Fringe despite not having won a single primary.

What a crew - how on earth is this Reality Challenged pack of loonies supposed to court the independents and the unaffiliated? Is it any wonder that the rest of the Industrialized West looks on with Fear and Wonder? This is the Superpower we're supposed to follow?

I'm tempted to steal a play from Michele Bachman and look to Hurricane Isaac, currently bearing down on Tampa,  to wipe this abomination from the face of the earth - but I have no confidence in that. We deserve this - in some way we deserve this.