Conservatives called "inchoate band of Peter Pans"

An interesting op-ed by Cliff Schecter about the Republican Right's regression into infantile whining appears in the Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/sep/24/republicans-tea-party-protests

This piece calls the current crop of conservative Republicans an "inchoate band of Peter Pans" and "diaper-donners" because of their babyish tantrums.

I think this highlights another point about today's rightist brain trust: They have to be doctrinaire about everything. They consider their ideology to be religion and science all at once.

If our side has an idea that doesn't work, we abandon it. Certainly, I do. You can't support an idea you backed 15 years ago when experience proves it to be ineffective. But the Republican Right keeps sticking to ideas that were known to be failures even then. They don't learn.

It wasn't always like this. In the '70s, American conservatives were losing elections by the scads, yet they weren't as indignant about it. They generally weren't as doctrinaire either. These days, it's as if being discredited only makes the Right more hardheaded.

Maybe if the Right grows up, people will start caring what they think again.

Or maybe not.