Why do they keep attacking decent people like Jim Webb- to keep this corrupt lot of fools in office? Why can’t they just admit they were sold a bill of goods and start over? Why do they want to remain in power, but without any principles? Are tax cuts that important? What is gained by keeping troops in harms way with no clear plan for victory? With no desire to change course? With our guys dying every day in what looks to be for no real good reason? Why? ~John Cole

Via Kevin Drum

I don’t agree with every particular of Mr. Cole’s indictment, but I agree with most of it (though I am not, and never have been a member of that party), especially about the attacks on Jim Webb.  I think quite a lot of Reagan Republicans who signed on back in the ’80s would be inclined to agree.  Though I don’t share his view that “religionists” are among the main culprits, I share his bewilderment with respect to the government intervention in the Schiavo case.  In the end, I am left wondering much the same thing about those who still want to defend this party with its current record: why?