Scarborough smacks down GOP

Political historians say that you know a political party is dying when it starts to be dominated by extreme elements.

And when I say the Republicans lately have gotten extreme, man, do I mean extreme! Even more so than before.

Right-wing MSNBC host and former Florida congressman Joe Scarborough has been bandied about lately as a possible Senate candidate in Florida.

In absolute terms, most people would consider Scarborough extreme. He was one of a select crowd of congresscritters who symbolized the authoritarian extremism of the 1994 Republican revolution.

But is Mr. Morning Joke extreme enough for today's GOP?

Well, this week, Scarborough was interviewing Obama's Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, when Gibbs asked him if he was going to be the Republican nominee for Florida's Senate seat.

"Here's my problem, Robert," Scarborough replied. "I don't really think it would be good to run in 2010 with a party that is actively associating itself with the Taliban."

Ooooooooh, did he say that?!

For once, Scarborough was right. After all, the Republicans are the home of Bill Frist and of Florida's own Mel Martinez, both of whom urged that the new government of Afghanistan include Taliban members.

Scarborough's statement seems to be referring to recent remarks made by right-wing Texas congressmoron Pete Sessions, who already had a record of extremist fartpipery and nastiness. Sessions boasted that he and his fellow Republicans were borrowing their legislative strategy from the Taliban. Sessions spoke lovingly about how the Taliban "went about systematically understanding how to disrupt and change a person's entire processes." He went on to say that "insurgency may be required" if the Democrats don't buckle.

The Republican Party isn't just only regional now in its support. It's flat-out dying altogether, and this proves it. In some areas, the Greens already outpoll the Republicans, and it ain't getting better for the GOP.