not the Limbaugh nonsense that seems the only authorized uniform for any and all Republicans

I read Joe Klein's latest magazine essay on

how Republicans have become nothing more than  nihilists (although I've been aware of that word for a long time, I've never understood it well enough to use in a sentence.)

In my perception the current tactics of opposition to health care reform seems more like bomb-tossing anarchy where the objective is not to come up with useful alternatives - absolutely not at all - but to simply and violently be opposed to anything not connected with Republicans or the junior high level philosophy proudly miss-spelled and miss-pronounced currently as conservatism.

What Goldwater and more recently John Dean discussed is not the Limbaugh nonsense that seems the only authorized uniform for any and all Republicans active today.

For the more prominent party hopefuls who are not fools a la Palin, (for example Romney) have to remain quiet, keep to themselves and venture not out of their lairs.

Their pointed silence speaks louder than any speech they could make. The proof of their political cowardice in not challenging Flush Limbaugh for the soul of conservatism is the deafening silence.

The current crop of wolves are of the "were" type - are in fact more like relentless badgers - and nobody safely dances with them.