AlterNet: Glenn Greenwald: The Real Reason the GOP Primary Is a Pathetic, Incompetent Clown Show

AlterNet: Glenn Greenwald: The Real Reason the GOP Primary Is a Pathetic, Incompetent Clown Show
In sum, how do you demonise Obama as a terrorist-loving secret Muslim intent on empowering US enemies when he has adopted, and in some cases extended, what was rightwing orthodoxy for the last decade? The core problem for GOP challengers is that they cannot be respectable Republicans because, as Krugman pointed out, Obama has that position occupied. They are forced to move so far to the right that they render themselves inherently absurd.