RNC wants their repugnant genie back in the bottle

I've spent a lot of time on the road lately, forced to listen to AM conservative talk radio, because in the middle of Nowheresville, that's all there is.  And let me tell you something.  The RNC can pretend they don't approve of the repugnant and blatant bigotry that spews from their own lips on a daily basis, but it ain't gonna stop.  Just turn on any conservative talker on AM radio, and wait, for a few minutes.  You don't have to wait long. It's constant, endless, and accelerating, the closer Obama comes to the nomination. 

The RNC, George W. Bush, John McCain, and every single GOP elected official, for the last two decades, have spent their every waking hour trying to lather up the knuckledragging neanderthals that make up their base.  It's tried and true, ancient and ever present.   It's why the Edmund Pettus bridge in Alabama was named after a confederate general.   It's why the immigration debate last summer was less a debate than an AM radio Ku Klux Klan convention.  It's why that very same debate dominated the GOP primary to the point that at times, the GOP primary looked like an arms race to see who could punish brown people the most. 

When you spend two decades legitimizing the worst instincts in human behavior, by not only giving it intellectual quarter, but actively seeking to increase it's intensity, in order to advance your own agenda, the genie ain't goin' back into the bottle unless the people themselves reject it.  It's how Slobodan Milosevic got an otherwise sane people to attempt a genocide on their own countrymen.  It's how every demagogue in history managed to lead their population into self-destruction.  That's real power.  The GOP knows it, and they wanted to use it to their own ends, carefully, and cynically.  They've played with this fire, and now they want it to go away.  Fat.  Chance.

We've had a hell of a primary on our side of the aisle, and no one's pulled any punches.  True.  But to those who complain about that, please remember - there is nothing I like to do more than pummel the living daylights out of Republicans, who have made this bed, must sleep now in their fire, and I am more than happy to watch them burn, applaud it all the way, and then salt the earth over their political grave so they can never take over our country again.