Shared Delusions: a story of demise of a once great political party

In today's Washington Post, Charles Krauthammer, ever a partisan hack opinionator if ever one existed, has blasted the President for criticizing the Supreme Court's activism. It is one of a long string of clues since 2008 in a growing body of evidence that the GOP is headed toward political exile. The moronic war on birth control, abortion, and ultimately on the independence of women, the nomination of an unanchored flip-flopping candidate who can convince the low information GOP primary voters that he's a Conservative, then Etch-A-Sketch his way to the middle in the general election, and even this article from Mr Krauthammer are part and parcel of a theme.

Here is my response to Mr Krauthammer where this theme of political exile emerges:

Mr Krauthammer, please. You wrote, "Obamacare passed the Congress without a single vote from the opposition party — in contradistinction to Social Security, the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, Medicare and Medicaid, similarly grand legislation, all of which enjoyed substantial bipartisan support.". 

The extreme obstructionist nature of the GOP during Mr Obama's entire tenure, does not somehow denigrate the majority for lack of the minorities'  votes on any piece of legislation. What happened to respect for the electoral mandate Presidents win? The President chose, perhaps unwisely (we shall see), to spend the political capital he earned on this issue in his first term. It is not his fault that the disdain the nation felt (and still feels, left and right) about GW Bush administration caused this landslide. Respect the decision, and the majority vote. A deliberate strategy, so ineloquently phrased by Mr McConnell, to make the entire force of the GOP's efforts in a severe economic downturn, not to help the nation thru a crisis caused in large part by lax regulation under Mr. Bush, but instead to make Mr Obama, "a one-term President" is to blame for the lack of aisle crossing on this, and any other legislation since Mr Obama took office. If you don't recognize that the GOP should shoulder almost all of the blame for the great recession, and the nation's disgust at our Federal institutions, you are clearly deluding yourself. It's ok, it is a shared delusion among the most rabid partisans the nation has ever seen coming from your party. Elections matter, and the rightward lurch of your party, combined with 8 years of idiotic and destructive nonsense coming from Mr Bush is why your party will lose, yet again, in 2012. 

It's time you and your GOP cohorts took a good long look in the mirror, and realize that moving ever rightward, and criticizing a Democratic President who operates somewhere only ever so slightly to the left of Ronald Reagan, is a recipe for disaster and will relegate your party once again to 40 years of exile in the minority. Open your eyes sir.

Will the GOP cast off the extremism of the right wing in time to save the party? Let's hope so. In a two-party system, strength on both sides is required for balance and stability to happen and for our nation to be strong.