Charles Blow: The G.O.P.’s Bachmann Problem
is A New York Times op ed that is more than worth your time to read.
Blow notes a lot of the internecine rhetorical bashing of Republicans by Republicans - for example, McCain calling the likes of Ted Cruz and Justin Amash "wacko birds" and Anne Coulter taking after Chris Christie in the frame of the smaller CPAC conference this year, “Even CPAC had to cut back on its speakers this year, by about 300 pounds.”
He also covers he Palin - Rove conflict as well as Donald Trump going after Michelle Malkin.
But Blow sees the problem on a broader scale:
Blow notes a lot of the internecine rhetorical bashing of Republicans by Republicans - for example, McCain calling the likes of Ted Cruz and Justin Amash "wacko birds" and Anne Coulter taking after Chris Christie in the frame of the smaller CPAC conference this year, “Even CPAC had to cut back on its speakers this year, by about 300 pounds.”
He also covers he Palin - Rove conflict as well as Donald Trump going after Michelle Malkin.
But Blow sees the problem on a broader scale:
The Republican Party is experiencing an existential crisis, born of its own misguided incongruity with modern American culture and its insistence on choosing intransigence in a dynamic age of fundamental change. Instead of turning away from obsolescence, it is charging headlong into it, becoming more strident and pushing away more voters whom it could otherwise win.Then after citing data from Andrew Kohut, Blow focuses on the one person who is representative of the stridency he has just mentioned, that being Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesotaa.