Thinking Of The GOP

++As the former President of the International Republican Institute, I can assure the reader the GOP today bears no resemblance to the Republicans of the 21st Century. In fact, it doesn't even bear a resemblance to the George W. Bush administration, which I will acknowledge was the worst in American history.

++I write this thinking of their lost opportunity. Instead of not cooperating with President Obama on things like the stimulus package or even healthcare, their total obstructionism wrote the script which they must follow down to their destruction.

++During the 2012 primary season, I was much intrigued by Jon Huntsman, the former Governor of Utah, fluent in Mandarin and fan of the great Captain Beefheart. Huntsman was supported by another OK Republican, Governor Tom Ridge of Pennsylvania. Obviously, Jon Huntsman went no where and now you can see his daughter conduct live interviews on Huffington Post.

++Huntsman's great crime was that he accepted President Obama's offer to become the American ambassador to China. His collaboration with the sitting President of the United States was not seen as the usually bipartisanship of the past but a betrayal. 

++I still believe Jon Huntsman was the only chance in recent history for the Republicans to move into the 21st century. 

++Now they feel that Shortpants Rubio, the young fogey, or the Canadian Ted Cruz, are the future, except neither own them can articulate a future for any of us. 

++And Huntsman was filthy rich,surely the number one qualification for the Republicans. His father even won one of Glenn Beck's awards for humanitarian work.

++It was not a Wendell Willkie moment but Huntsman could have directed the party in the right direction. 

++Now you have Ted Cruz with his own Reverend Wright leaving in his own house--his father the Christian Reconstructionist. 

++That's why Andrew Sullivan intrigued me . He thought the Republicans could come back. His hero was Rand Paul as a libertarian but those hopes were dashed.

++It can't come back except in a feral form. Beware!

++Alas, The "Twenty-First Century Quaker" Was not to be.