I’ve been trying to maintain hope that the Republican Party would once again be the Republican Party that I once enthusiastically supported. Every step of the way, I fully expected the party to regain its sensibilities and begin behaving like the Republican Party of yore. But … no. They continued to slide further and further rightward, leaving me further and further behind in the what was quickly becoming The Center. And now, they really just seem to have jumped off the cliff into lunacy.

It started with their support of Tea Party thinking, and now this:

That’s the page one arrives at when visiting GOP.com. I went there looking for reasoned arguments and plans presented by the National Republican Party, and what I found was a page that is not only childish, petulant, and just not becoming of a national political party, it looks like total crap on top of it. It looks like the sort of web page designed by a crazy conspiracy theorist after an all-nighter of ranting on a caffeine high about America’s leap into the maw of socialism at the hands of our Muslim/Terrorist/Dictator President.

Seriously. If they think that page reaches out to the moderate, centrist, and compassionate conservatives they have lost during their downward spiral into insanity on the backs of the Tea Party members, as one of those people, let me assure them, the message comes through loud and clear … the Republican Party is never going to be what it once was and until they begin behaving like adults again, I won’t be considering any of their candidates.