I've tried to remain out of it...

...but I can't help myself.

Why, oh why, do the Republicans continue to nominate people for the office of President?

The last two elections, in a nutshell:

Fox News, Rush, Hannity, Savage, Beck, Coulter, Malkin, et al  all line up AGAINST the presumed nominee in the primaries.  They throw their weight behind ideologues who couldn't win a general election if they tried.  They did it to McCain in 2008, and they did it again to Romney in 2012.  The sane portion of the GOP votes in primaries for the candidate that they believe might actually win, because THEY'RE PROBABLY THE MOST PROPERLY SKILLED FOR THE JOB.  McCain was in 2008, and Romney certainly appeared that way in 2012.  Romney may have a lot of John Kerry in him, but McCain was an astute choice. 

So, the hard right faction goes hard after the centrist candidate during the primaries.  The centrist candidate wins the nomination, because that's HOW IT SHOULD BE.  Then, something completely inexplicable happens.  All the hard right faction lines up behind the nominee once it is obvious who it is...WHO THEN PANDERS TO THE HARD RIGHT LINE OF BULLSHIT, making themselves completely unelectable.

Why? 

Barack Obama has been impressively beatable in both the last two elections.  The pandering, pendantic choice of Sarah Palin in 2008 nuked McCain's chances, and Romney's inability to be himself at any point in this election once it was obvious he was the candidate, all the while making buffoonish and clownish gaffes and pleas to those who control the will of the GOP (well, at least the radical portion of it). 

This is a party which is in desperate need of an enema. 

And what will happen?

Romney is going to lose.  He's going to lose an easily winnable election.  Afterward, the GOP will blame the candidate, not their own party's ideology.  And they will be horribly, horribly wrong.

And they will continue to lose, until they figure out what is plainly in front of their own noses.  Most of America is in the middle.  They used to appeal to those people. 

Apparently, for the big job, they no longer feel that's necessary. 

Welcome to Clinton 2016.  'Cause you know that's what's coming.