The political party that time forgot

Physicists and science fiction writers should take note of the Republican primary campaign. Each of the four remaining contestants is trying to time travel into the past. Newt Gingrich wants to time travel to the fictitious "morning in American" Reagan era of the early 1980s. Mitt Romney wants to time travel to the last quarter of the 19th century and rule the country along with the rest of the robber barons like Vanderbilt and the first Rockefeller. Ron Paul wants to time travel back to the 18th century and live in the early days of the American republic when the Constitution was new and most of the country was wilderness. Rick Santorum wants to travel back to the 12th century and reprise the Dark Age and the Crusades and get the Inquisition back into business.

Before these knuckleheads started campaigning, the Republicans were looking forward to a big win in 2012. Then these clowns opened their mouths and started talking. Bad career move. Now even hardcore do-or-die party stalwarts are aghast and have had their fill of this non-stop nonsense. Primary voter participation is down 30%. Old dog poop looks better than these guys. Old Republican dog poop today is going to be older Republican dog poop in November. Who'll want to vote for a pile of it then? The Republican party may have engineered a landslide victory for a Democrat president that even Democrats think is below average.

Even for a party obsessed with looking backwards, that's ass-backward politicking.