Someone far more conservative than even George Bush because the powerbase is mad that they haven’t gotten things done (abortion, gay marriage amendment, flag burning, etc).

The GOP has no interest–NONE–is resolving these issues because this is the carrot that keeps the far right in line. Resolve these issues and the GOP loses the impassioned voters it desperately needs to retain power.

It has been and always will be about the money and power with the people running the GOP–they simply use the far right to achieve their ends.

The GOP has accomplished a lot in the past tow and a half decades–they have reduced the size and power of the middle class, decimated the social programs that assisted the lower classes from moving up, and created a corporate paradise that enriches those who are already rich.

A vast majority of dems have been either complacent or complicit in this effort, sadly.

The end result is a growing disparity between the halves and the have nots.

Now–do not misunderstand me–I do not begrudge the wealthy their wealth–hell, I want everyone to be wealthy or have a chance for it. With a few exceptions, I do not believe this has been a conscious effort on the part of the wealthy and powerful to shut out the middle and lower classes. Instead, I think this has been a short-sighted, short-term greed to “get all we can while we can” and the unintended consequence is the mess we have now.

The people running the GOP have no social conscience, no moral compass, and could care less about the long term, best interest of this country. Everything they do is about improving the bottom line from the last quarter to this quarter.

Trippi had an exaggerated sense of the power of the far right, a common mistake among rabid partisans.