Embrace the Suck: Midterm Edition

Following the fiasco of the Romney/Ryan ticket in the 2012 presidential race, the Republican National Committee decided that the time had come for the GOP to face some hard truths and make some changes.  Republican strategists compiled a post-mortem and listed areas in which the GOP needed to improve its strategies and tactics in order to win elections.  It was not a short list, but neither was it a surprising list, at least for anyone existing outside of the conservative echo chamber.

Nor is it surprising, today, that Republicans are heading into the 2014 mid-term elections with less of a clue on how to correct their course than they had in 2013.  There are all sorts of theories about why that is so, both inside and outside the party.  Some blame dark money influence, while others blame ideological rigidity and epistemic closure.

Me?  I've recently come to my own conclusion and, it pains me very much to say it -- but I think I agree with Gov Bobby Jindal that Republicans have simply become the party of Stupid.  The people who run the party, the people who vote for the party's candidates and the candidates themselves are disturbingly un-serious people.

Fortunately, for me, there is no shortage of concrete evidence that Republican politicians have become frivolous, witless, practitioners of sophistry who appeal to the same kinds of voters . . .