Months ago, when I first launched Green Dragon, I wrote a post about the implications for the future of the Republican Party of the effectiveness of the Obama campaign's critiques of Bain Capital and its vulture capitalism. I said a civil war within the Republican Party was coming...one that would make the Tea Party split look like a garden picnic.
Well, it's here.
Each of the GOP's three major blocs is reeling, trying to make sense of a campaign result it did not anticipate and which flies in the face of its core beliefs. With the reelection of the President, trouncing of anti-abortion candidates and unprecedented approvals both of marriage equality and election of openly gay legislators, Republicans now know that 2008 wasn't a fluke. It appears finally to be dawning on conservatives that their imagined version of the United States simply is not real.
More below the orange croissant.