Republicans: Not a Political Party: It's an SNL Skit

I think after 2008 the GOP must have decided that trying to win elections and govern in today's troubled world was just too much of a drag. And they noticed how much everyone loved those SNL skits during the election. People hated Sarah Palin; but they loved Tina Fey playing Sarah Palin.

So I think they have secretly decided to mount a perpetual SNL satire in real time.

What else can explain:

1) The Michael Steele goofiness
2) The Bobby Jindal speech
3) Renaming the Democrats the "Democrat Socialist Party"
4) Rush
5) Newt
6) The Cheney self-parody

And now, this:

National Review Online's Mark Krikorian: "Putting the emphasis on the final syllable of Sotomayor is unnatural in English... and insisting on an unnatural pronunciation is something we shouldn't be giving in to."

The National Review? Really? You have stooped to this? William F. Buckley must be rolling in his grave.

It's all so lame it has to be a joke.

Right?

So it must no longer be about the votes. It's about ratings. They want us to laugh.

Saturday Night Live Defense

This moment in the debate sticks out the morning after. I know I will upset my reader (I have three, you know, so I'm not trying to offend any of them) who likes Hillary and thinks I'm unfairly picking on her. But, come one -- 35 years of experience, ready to lead on day one, and she's whinning about getting asked the first question in a debate? And using a sketch on Saturday Night Live to attack her opponent? Or was that an attack on him, perhaps she was going after the media? I'm not sure what it was. What it wasn't was presidential.