With all the focus on Romney's tenure at Bain, and his tax returns, and the truly rotten nature of his candidacy, it's easy to lose focus of the bigger picture. And, the bigger picture is that it is not Romney who is the problem. It's the Republican Party. Any Republican candidate would have proposed a plan that made the rich richer and the poor poorer, that punished the have-nots and coddled the haves. Any Republican would have engaged in a war on Planned Parenthood and abortion rights and minority voting and immigrants. Hell, every Republican who was for even one week in contention this year was just as bad as Willard - Newt with his delusions of grandeur, Santorium with his perverted interest in everyone's sex life, Cain with his sleazy treatment of women, Bachmann and the Donald with their general insanity, Rick Perry hilarious simple-mindedness and odd response to prescription drugs. And all this is because being bat-chit crazy is, at this point, a requirement for making it to the top in the GOP. You have to have the same extreme plutocratic world view as the Koch brothers, and you have to have at least some obsessive fixation on a ridiculous social wedge issue, be it gay marriage, illegal immigrants, blacks having the audacity to vote Democratic, etc., etc., etc. It's the Republican Party, stupid. That's the problem.
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