[Lamplighter]

This voice from the mid-70's startled me... but it rings true.

The Boston Globe
By Tom Keane
February 25, 2012

A McGovern moment?

A general election disaster could give the GOP reason to rethink its message

THE BATTLE for the soul of the Republican Party comes to a head in
Michigan and Arizona this Tuesday and on Super Tuesday just a week later.
The moderate home of John McCain, George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush and even Ronald Reagan
is under a withering assault from Tea Partiers and Bible Belters.
The conservative marauders are not only at the gates, but it looks like they may take over.<snip>

Maybe it would be best if they did.

So let the GOP nominate a Santorum or a Gingrich and get it out of its system.

Let the GOP have, if you will, its George McGovern moment.

And besides all that:
Ibid
2/25/12
Ultrasounds of extremism

These days, abortion opponents can’t seem to decide whether
to discourage pre-natal testing because it might lead some women to consider abortion,
as Rick Santorum has suggested on the campaign trail,
or to require it, as the Virginia legislature has sought to do
in order to persuade pregnant women that the fetus has a beating heart.

Both initiatives, in seeking to promote the rights of fetuses, intrude on women’s rights.

One talking head on TV said something like:

The GOP is searching for smaller government, small enough to fit in a woman's vagina.