Best. Republican. Smackdown. EVAR.

This is your present and future, conservatives. Take note

This is the kind of thing political bloggers like I live for: over at his Talking Points Memo blog, AmericanDad has published an “open letter to conservatives” that is easily the single most complete, well-sourced and irrefutable chronicling of all (or the vast majority) of the many problems festering in the Republican Party and its supporters. It opens thusly:

Dear Conservative Americans,

The years have not been kind to you. I grew up in a profoundly Republican home, so I can remember when you wore a very different face than the one we see now. You've lost me and you've lost most of America. Because I believe having responsible choices is important to democracy, I'd like to give you some advice and an invitation.

First, the invitation: Come back to us.

Now the advice. You're going to have to come up with a platform that isn't built on a foundation of cowardice: fear of people with colors, religions, cultures and sex lives that differ from your own; fear of reform in banking, health care, energy; fantasy fears of America being transformed into an Islamic nation, into social/commun/fasc-ism, into a disarmed populace put in internment camps; and more. But you have work to do even before you take on that task.

Your party -- the GOP -- and the conservative end of the American political spectrum has become irrepsonsible and irrational. Worse, it's tolerating, promoting and celebrating prejudice and hatred. Let me provide some expamples -- by no means an exhaustive list -- of where the Right as gotten itself stuck in a swamp of hypocrisy, hyperbole, historical inaccuracy and hatred.

There’s no way I can quote the whole thing, both due to its sheer length and because having to insert that many source links would give me insta-carpal tunnel, so just head on over – yeah, right now – and read the whole thing. It’s a true exercise in ass-kicking prowess that shouldn’t be missed by anyone, regardless of their political beliefs or affiliations.

(via @todayspolitics)