Campaign Comeuppance - On the Way

The Republican party, for a number of reasons, has a political base that has little or no loyalty to the formal institution of the Republican party, and that does have profound and unshakable loyalty to attitudes and beliefs that are orbiting so distantly from common sense that the Hubble can't find them.

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So Rick Santorum -- and, incidentally, have I mentioned recently what a colossal dick he is? -- won the Kansas caucuses [...] by something of a handy margin.

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Frankly, the state of Kansas is out of its goddamn mind these days, but it's also ground zero in the current war on the unauthorized-by-Jeebus use of ladyparts, thanks to Governor Sam Brownback, who is what the Council Of Trent had in mind for a governor of Kansas, and that was in 1545.

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There is no question that the attitudes and beliefs driving the Republican party of Kansas are the attitudes and beliefs that are driving the party as whole toward, paradoxically, nominating Willard Romney in Tampa this summer. This massive cognitive dissonance is very likely an unsolvable problem. Sooner or later, Romney's going to have to cut a major deal with these people -- the VP, some serious and visible planks in the platform -- and, no matter how accustomed he's become to looking publicly ridiculous over the past five years, Romney's going to pay a serious price for what he's going to be compelled to do just to keep the people who think like Santorum in the hall.

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Watching Willard Romney have to reinvent himself as a barbarian is going to be the best show in town.

  Charles Pierce