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The Republican Party is coming apart at the seams. What a shame. Couldn抰 have happened to a nicer bunch of douchebags. It really is a joy to watch extremists take over a party and attack anyone who offers a stray thought. Looking back, this was inevitable. Keeping religious nuts, big business and people scared of terrorists all under one roof was doomed to fail. It’s like pedophiles and rapists going in on a van together. Turns out, they have different priorities.

The great part of this story is it is Sarah Palin抯 doing. She抯 the chosen one, the lady Jesus, who turned a big flashlight on how crazy and stupid the religious faction of the GOP really are. She was forced on John McCain by the religious right, without considering that she would sink the campaign because she is a lying, corrupt idiot. All they saw in her was sweet Jesus. The religious right finally did something to scare away sensible, traditionally conservative Republicans.

Traditional Republicans are now understanding they are in league with anti-intellectual fanatics. It’s the first time they have actually been a little freaked out by their own party. It just took a while, and Sarah Palin, to get here. Hilariously, this is Reagan抯 fault. He is the one who began bringing the nuts into the party 枛 and just like his economic plan to de-regulate everything has been exposed this year as an economic clown car, the same can be said for bringing in the religious nuts. Eventually they were going to stop playing nice and go for what they really wanted.

For years, traditional Republicans put up with some serious idiots 枛 because their lunacy wasn抰 harmful. Jerry Falwell being upset with a gay Teletubby. Pat Robertson praying for someone to blow up the State Department. Pat Hagee saying New Orleans was destroyed because of gays. No harm there. They were, just religious freaks being religious freaks. As long as Republicans were able to get their business shit done, the fanatics served their purpose. Over the years, the Republican Party moved farther and farther to the right.

Bush was the ultimate creation of the two groups. He抯 a religious nut, but he also drops on his knees to take the sweet cock of big business whenever he can. Bush is from a big business family. He抯 spent his life around big business, so he knows where his true loyalty lies. Sure, he抯 still a born-again who thinks he was chosen by God, but he抯 packed the courts with judges who favor corporations 枛 not judges who only care about religion. In the end, Bush was an insider. He was raised in a well-connected, very wealthy, political family. He found God later in life. Sarah Palin, on the other hand, is one of them. And that shit is scary to many traditional Republicans.

She isn抰 from a politically connected family. She did not come from wealth. She抯 straight out of the church. And it抯 a church with some scary connections. She and her kind talk about 搑eal America,which simply means, 揅hristians.The people who believe America was founded as a Christian nation.

With the nomination of Sarah Palin, sensible Republicans went from being the users to possibly being used 枛 and they do not care for that idea. This is the religious right’s attempt to flip the table, but it has been a massive failure. In every state, the same phrase is being used by long time Republicans: 揝he scares me.In poll after poll, Americans say the number one reason people are not choosing McCain is Sarah Palin.

Today, the Republicans Party is a disaster. It is a great schism. Evangelicals now make up more than half the party 枛 and 23% of all voters. Moderates have been driven from the party, and now Goldwater Republicans may be following. Traditional Republicans will not side with the religious nuts if they want someone like Sarah Palin. And make no mistake about it 枛 they do. A recent poll breaks it down.

If John McCain is not elected president, which one of the following three possible candidates would you be most likely to support for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012

Mitt Romney 35%
Mike Huckabee 26%
Sarah Palin 20%

That抯 35% for a business-minded Republican and 46% for a religious nut. Come 2012, they will not stand by and allow a non-religious nut to get the nomination. They will remember what happened with Sarah Palin and how many Republicans blamed her for McCain抯 undoing. They will attack members of their own party the way they have attacked Democrats for years. They have already begun the purge. They are and will continue to destroy any chances the Republicans have of winning the presidency for years to come. They have no idea they are a minority. Traditional Republicans do, and that抯 why they used them for so long. But then the minions crossed a line.

And what a glorious line it is.

FearTheReaper is a writer, actor and stand up comedian. Check back each Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday for more from FearTheReaper and read his blog, Stop All Monsters. Come see him at the San Jose Improv this Saturday and Sunday.