Via Andrew Sullivan, a take on where the Republicans went wrong. And it's nothing to do with Edmund Burke or the tension between dispositional and creedal modes of conservatism. John Cole argues you can see it in the ferocity of Republican supporters' angered by Barack Obama's decision not to pin an American flag to his jacket. It's the crazy people, stupid.
Screw them. I got out. They can have their party [...] The threat of higher taxes in the short term isn't enough to keep me from voting out crazy people and voting for sane people with whom I merely disagree regarding policy.
The comments continue the theme as ex-Republicans share what did it for them. One reader recounts an incident with a man who thought unspecified Muslims would force his "hot" wife to wear a burkha. "Who are these dopes?" he asks. "Why are they allowed to drive or handle money?"
