Since the re-election of our President, Barack Obama, I haven't posted here very much. I'm doing other projects, volunteering in my community and trying to get a home-based copyediting business going.
The reduced time I spend online is mostly spent drinking in the sweet schadenfreude of watching the right split into fractious factions. I haunt Hot Air, Redstate, Brietbart, NRO Online and other sites where the RINO vs. winger wars are playing out big time, where at least one out of every three posters nowadays blares they will never, EVER again vote for a Republican Party traitor.
I believe them. The Republican Party is a mess these days and losing more each day with every Rick Scott capitulation or Rubio immigration plan. Republican politicians these days can't win for losing: one step to the left and they lose the baggers, and win very few jaded moderates; one step to the right and they lose everyone but the crazies. This is a party stuck between a rock and a hard place, so when all of my "favorite" sites blared the same headline today: "Rush Ashamed to Be An American," I worried that their defacto leader was finally leading them to sanity.
Perhaps he had finally realized the error of his ways, that by dragging so many stupid people too far right, he had rendered his beloved party unelectable.
Or that maybe calling women sluts and blaming rape victims for getting pregnant wasn't such a good idea electorally-speaking.
Or that fomenting racism Magic Negro-style and alienating every single group outside of old and middle-aged white guys hadn't been such a great strategy.
Was Rush finally confronting reality? Had he finally hit bottom and found shame?