A Lost Civilization

(There's been a lot of Republican-bashing in the last month.  It's well-deserved, but by now pretty close to played out.  Nevertheless, Maureen Dowd had one the better GOP-rippers in her Sunday NY Times column, which I must share.  Choice nuggets follow, with full article link below.)
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The Mayans were right when they predicted the world would end in 2012.  It was just a select world:  the GOP universe of arrogant, uptight, entitled, bossy, retrogressive white guys.  Just another vanishing tribe that fought the tides of history.  Someday, it will be a National Geographic special with faded photos of Clint Eastwood and an empty chair.

Who would have ever thought blacks would get out and support the first black president?  Who would have ever thought women would shy away from the party of transvaginal probes?  Who would have ever thought Latinos would scorn a party that expected them to finish up their chores and self-deport?

Gun sales have burgeoned since the president's reelection, as the dead-enders rush to arm themselves.  But history will no doubt record that withering Republicans were finally wiped from the earth in 2016 when the relentless (and rested) Conquistadora Hilary marched in, General Bill on a horse behind her, and finished them off.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/09/opinion/sunday/dowd-a-lost-civilization.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&_r=0