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Via Think Progress and Ben Smith @ Politico

In one symbolic development, organizers of next year’s Conservative Political Action Conference — the country’s biggest annual meeting of activists on the right — said last week that they had rejected a request to schedule a panel on whether Obama was a native-born U.S. citizen.

Good! Republicans, it’s high time you got it through your heads that the reason you lost both houses of Congress, the Presidency, and soon the Supreme Court is because you have completely abrogated your responsibility to govern, to say nothing of your mandate to present a credible alternative to Democratic proposals.

All those states that “went blue” this year? You have nobody to blame but yourselves. You ran an intellectually bankrupt campaign, and for years your legislative agenda consisted of nothing but “don’t piss off Darth Cheney”.

Perhaps when you return to responsible debate based on ideas and logic, people will again honor you with their support. Until then, I’m afraid you’re stuck with the monster you created. And that’s not just the birthers, it extends also to these “Tea Party” activists and all the other kooky groups you’ve been cultivating lately.

You claim to be a party of principle, but your actions reveal you at every turn to be primarily oriented on regaining the power you lost, and to what end? Enriching Halliburton? Protecting Blackwater? Do you want to launch another fraudulent war?

It’s time for Republicans –principled Republicans– to start breaking the 11th Commandment, and denounce and start casting out the crazies. You won’t lose support, you’ll gain it. And you know what? You’ll gain your self-respect back, too.

That said, good luck convincing all the low-hanging fruit that you’ve suckered; I speak from first-hand experience when I say that they tend to disbelieve anything closely resembling truth. Your lies will not easily be countered, not even by yourselves.

Update: Even more, wider-ranging coverage on the GOP Establishment’s falling out of love with the wingnuts in the LA Times here.