Up North Progressive

The Up North Progressive has been really busy these past couple of weeks getting adjusted to the new full time job and frankly more interested in the giant (or as Trump would say, “yooge”) Coprinopsis atramentaria coming up in the front yard than the current state of chaos within the GOP, but the recent blow up over the LIEberal media and the last GOP primary debate proves anyone who votes Republican in 2016 is a dangerous, deranged lunatic.

The best part about last Wednesday’s debate happened during the kiddie table session. Lindsey Graham won by being the most inebriated and ranting about where he wanted to shove his fist in every dictator in the world as warmonger in chief.

Because CNBC covers financial news, the candidates were expected to answer questions about their financial plans for the country. None of these guys have financial plans, which is why all of the candidates either played “I don’t like your question, so I’m going to answer the question I wish you’d asked instead” or blew up at the moderators using the Sarah Palin complaint to deflect away their incompetence. The fantasy football question was legit – that’s the level of intelligence the moderators knew they were dealing with.

Rubio thinks it will help the economy to keep hard-to-fill jobs vacant for half a year. Ben Carson has no clue what his tax cut plan would do, except make God happy because his tax plan comes from the bible. Jeb Bush talks about how much he likes Charles Murray’s take on poverty. Donald Trump thinks toughing it out financially includes dad giving you a million bucks. Rand Paul wants government so small he can barely see it. Huckabee, Ted Cruz, and the rest, send them all to Gilligan’s Island, they can do less harm there.

And it seems that’s the plan, because yesterday the news was full of how the campaigns were revolting against Reince Priebus and the RNC. Seems the GOP candidates really are taking their ball and going home. Priebus begged to be included, but he’s shut out of the meeting.

NBC received a letter from the GOP stating their February GOP debate was suspended, but it’s not enough. The candidates want debates where they can drone on about their religiousyness, their ideology about what they think America should be, and how they should be in charge of a government they want to shut down.

The GOP candidates hate the debates because they have nothing to debate about but ideology. The GOP is out of real solutions for anything, backed themselves into a corner failing to stop everything the White House accomplished despite their best efforts, and now they’re fighting each other to win a presidency that slips further and further away with every election cycle. Out of touch and running out of time. Just like their animal mascot: Very possibly extinct within 50 years.