Where did all the reasonable Republicans go?

The voice of the Republican party is being lost to wackos!

Where are all you reasonable Republicans? I know you're out there! You've left your campaign to be controlled by an army of uninformed, fear-mongering nit-wits. And I'll tell you right now, unless you intelligent and reasonable people within the Republican party don't start standing up for yourselves, you're party will trudging through an endless cesspool of mindless and turgid thought forever.

The first thing you have to realize is that you have lost this election. Given the situation in my state, New Mexico, I feel hard pressed to consider the McCain camp competition considering the overwhelming volunteer support we've created in this state. We have 30+ field offices in this state alone, compared to McCain's 6. Our number of canvassers is well into the thousands. McCain struggles to get any at all. Fivethirtyeight.com has Obama's win percentage at over 90%. By all accounts, baring some October surprise involving lurid photos of Barack, I think he has got it in the bag. And I think you know it.

Take, for example, what the sensation of the week has been in my office. It seems a fundamentalist church just a few blocks from our office has decided to ignore the clear rules of conduct for a tax-exempt entity and raised a giant poster of an aborted fetus (mysteriously, same photo used on every other similar anti-abortion sign in America) in front of their church with Obama's name written under it...Of course, close by is an other picture--of a healthy, non-bloody, baby with McCain's name under it. The message is clear. "We're simplistic morons who can't concoct an intelligent argument of our own to defend our position against Barack Obama, so we're resorting to ludicrous image association." The greatest part about it is...I've schedules numerous new volunteers for Obama who were driven to volunteer service by their disgust of this church's statement.

And again, the intelligent and normal Republican loses.

When John McCain has to hastily grab a microphone out of the hands of a disturbed supporter who's just called Barack Obama an untrustworthy Muslim, you normal Republicans lose.

When people in the audience of a McCain rally call for the death of Barack Obama, you normal Republicans lose.

When the idiots who are running McCain's campaign are delusional enough to think that it's a good idea to put Sarah Palin in front of 15,000 hockey fans in south Philly, only to be met with overwhelming BOOOOOOOS, you normal Republicans lose.

When you have a wildly reckless evangelical minister decry all other religions other than Christianity and challenge God to "honor" his name by making sure Obama loses in an invocation speech at a McCain rally, you normal Republicans lose.

Stand up if you're still out there. Because you've totally lost your party. You are now past the tipping point of credibility. You've entrenched yourselves so deeply in this mindlessly ideological battle of patriotism and religion that you've essentially got nothing left but the sycophants and numbnuts we all see on TV every night, publicly displaying to all that, indeed, racism is still thriving in some parts of the country.

So Republicans...those of you who feel you've lost control of your party. I know you're out there. I know you are aware of the fact that Sarah Palin was the single dumbest decision the Republican party has ever made (Iraq war aside...after all, that was a bi-partisan effort, right?). Concede your failure now and admit that this campaign was a huge disaster. Because the more you continue to fool yourselves into thinking you still have a shot here, the more you babble off premeditated and automated assertions in defense of this charade of a campaign, the more you guys look like...well...the idiot who really thinks that Barack Obama is a muslim, terrorist plotting to infultrate the White House and turn the United States into a Allah-praising country. And--the more you're losing your party.

You're going to lose Nov 4th. And you're going to lose big. Seriously. I'm not trying to be an asshole. It's pretty obvious to most Americans. So accept that fact and start rejecting the direction your party is going into. Because if you really care about anything more than just winning an election, and there's actually some conviction in the true beliefs of the Republican party, you guys better start quickly distancing yourselves from the nut-job who's standing right next to you holding the monkey doll with Obama's name stuck to it (that actually happened). That's some real and sickening shit right there. Not the highest moment in Republican history.