For a guy that I consider, 'basically stupid'

cuz he proved it SO many times, former prez GWBush can sometimes utter a bit of truth. Today he said, 'I'm worried that I will be the LAST Republican president'.
Well said, Dubya. I think there is an EXCELLENT chance that what you say is true, unless, sometime in the way-distant future the clowns of the GOP can totally re-invent themselves into a party that bears little resemblance to the freak-show it is today. Again, well said, Dubya, as the official 'Platform' proves how the inmates have taken control of the asylum.

It is as though, rather than trying to reconcile Mr. Trump’s heretical views with conservative orthodoxy, the writers of the platform simply opted to go with the most extreme version of every position. Tailored to Mr. Trump’s impulsive bluster, this document lays bare just how much the G.O.P. is driven by a regressive, extremist inner core.

Mr. Trump’s anti-Muslim phobia and fantasy wall across the Mexican border are front and center, along with his protectionist views, which deny long-held positions of the party. No less alarming is a raft of planks that ideologues pushed through to banish any notion of moderation and present-day reality from the party’s credo.

This majority has triumphed in securing retrograde positions that include making no exceptions for rape or women’s health in cases of abortion; requiring the Bible to be taught in public high schools; selling coal as a “clean” energy source; demanding a return of federal lands to the states; insisting that legislators use religion as a guide in lawmaking; appointing “family values” judges; barring female soldiers from combat; and rejecting the need for stronger gun controls — despite the mass shootings afflicting the nation every week. The platform also makes homophobia and the denial of basic civil rights to gays, lesbians and transgender people a centerpiece. 

It is hard to believe the Republicans’ platform came just three years after party leaders, stunned by the drubbing they took in President Obama’s re-election, commissioned what came to be called a G.O.P. autopsy. The G.O.P. used to insist it was the “big tent” open to one and all. Now it’s the “big wall” party braced by a destructive platform out of touch with American lives and devoid of the common sense the nation needs for any form of political progress. 

Bottom line, they are assuring that they are a dying breed, which is the silver lining on the dark cloud of Repub politics. Good riddance....