I Predicted This

Some months ago -- and I'm too tired to go back and research the more than 500 postings of mine since April of this year -- I wrote that by the end of this election, the GOP would become the party of the Christianists, the theocrats, the wing-nuts (I didn't use that word, actually, but it's coming to mind now).

Rosa Brooks over at the Los Angeles Times notes the same today (emphasis mine).

Once, the GOP proudly claimed to be the "party of ideas." They weren't generally good ideas, it's true -- but they were ideas eloquently defended by men and women who believed it was their duty to study history, philosophy, science, economics and international relations and to do the intellectual heavy lifting needed to try to persuade smart people with different views to come around to their way of thinking. That was the GOP nurtured by conservative intellectuals such as William Buckley. Buckley was many things liberals didn't admire, but he wasn't ignorant, savage or stupid by choice.