Bringing the Crazy

In recent years the GOP-e has been battling various insurgent groups within the conservative movement. The GOP-e wants nice safe Republican types, you know, Mitt Romney, while the insurgents want revolutionaries like Donald Trump.

Trump is president while Romney is not.

We just saw this play out in Alabama with Steve Bannon leading the charge against Luther Strange and giving us Roy Moore which has of course led to Doug Jones.

This is not the first time the insurgents have nominated crazy. In fact it's been happening a lot the last decade.

In 2010 the Tea Party got Sharon Angle nominated in Nevada. She had a habit of saying kooky things and lost.

That same year the Tea Party got Christine O'Donnell nominated in Delaware. She was a weirdo who cut a campaign commercial in which she proclaimed 'I am not a witch'. We argued passionately for her primary opponent, the Rhinoish Congressman Mike Castle. You see, Mrs. Stroock is from Delaware so we know the state's politics pretty well. Its a small place and once you're in you're in for life. Just ask Joe Biden.

The Tea Party really blew it there.

Then in 2012 the Missouri GOP nominated Todd Akin, please don't make us go there.

Matt Drudge Tweeted that Roy Moore was 'Too much crazy'.

Quite right.

We've argued here that the election was not about the man but the fight. Still, we wonder if in the long run we're not better off without Moore.

That's what Trump thought, which is why he backed Luther Strange. Trump knows crazy when he see's it.

Turned the Crazy up to 11