Why Laura Ingraham Is A Useful Idiot

So the decline of the Grand Old Party has come down to this: a cat fight between two right-wing princesses.

"Defeated Republicans have turned on each other with a debate on the party's future descending into a protracted bout of name-calling and poisonous remarks about the girth of John McCain's daughter."

It is the Battle of the Bulge between the perioxided skeletar spinsters Anne Coulter and Laura Ingraham tag-teaming on one side of the ring and Meghan McCain, the daughter of Senator John McCain, on the other side. We're grateful for this distraction for once again we see the face of Republicanism in all its pettiness.

Issues? The only issue is getting and staying elected and the Republicans have lost their groove. Part of the reason must be the relentless rhetoric of ridicule that passes for analysis from reactionary radio and cable. It's entertaining, and I don't miss a night of watching Hannity or O'Reilly. But it isn't persuasive, because it reinforces our view that the party of Reagan and Buckley as devolved into the party of Limbaugh and Ingraham. This nonsense makes for ratings and it sells books. But it does nothing to win the confidence of the vital center and expand the ranks of conservatives.

Talking heads like Laura and Bill and Anne and Sean strut and fret their tales "told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing" except the continuing irrelevance of Republicans. And so that's why Laura and her ilk are indeed useful idiots for the Democratic Party.