30 Years in the Wilderness 3

Gene Robinson sums-up the current state of the GOP nicely:

When Ronald Reagan was president, I had a sense of what ideas and principles his party stood for. When Newt Gingrich and his "Contract With America" brigade took Washington by storm in 1994, I knew what they believed -- loopy though it was -- and what they hoped to accomplish. I defy anyone to give a coherent explanation of what today's Republican Party, under George Bush and now John McCain, wants to do except perpetuate itself in power.

Indeed.  It seems the GOP has significant re-tooling ahead of it. Maybe when they're done, there really will be two major parties that I could consider voting for.