Is this still the party that appeals to the better angels of our nature?

Sadly, I have to say it is no longer.  The party of Lincoln is one without a moral or intellectual conscience, remaining rooted in their festive bacchanals of anti-intellectualism and fundamentalist rancor.  Lewis Black perhaps said it best when he said the difference between the Democratic and Republican Parties was one of bad ideas versus no ideas.  In desperate times, I’ll always take the former over the latter.

I’m not sure where the hell I was going with this post when I started it, but it’s obvious now that very little in the way of additional comment is necessary. I did my part to defeat the politics of personal destruction, to turn back the racist and rabidly anti-intellectual voters who couldn’t bear to see a man named Obama elected President because of his race or because of the ethnic or cultural origins of his name.