GOP ''... is now more like South Africa during apartheid'

New York Times correspondent Frank Rich -- perhaps with the GOP's historic relationship with South Africa's Apartheid government in mind -- makes a present day comparison:

The G.O.P. ran out of steam and ideas well before George W. Bush took office and Tom DeLay ran amok, and it is now more representative of 20th-century South Africa during apartheid than 21st-century America. The proof is in the vanilla pudding. When David Letterman said that the 10 G.O.P. presidential candidates at an early debate looked like "guys waiting to tee off at a restricted country club," he was the first to correctly call the election.

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[donbrown]

Frank Rich is one of my favorite editorial writers...consistently on mark and witty, and a fellow Harvard man besides...

His point about the despicable dearth of diversity in the party first struck me at the Republican convention when the all-white crowd starting jeering and waving their cowboy hats at the mention of Obama as a "community organizer".

For me, it was the ugliest moment of the whole campaign until the shouts of "Kill Him" at a Palin rally.

These are truly sad and dangerous people.