Sounds About Right

A columnist for Der Speigel, a German newspaper, unloads repeatedly on the current crop of Republican presidential candidates.  It's a must read in its entirety.

From Der Speigel...

It's horrifying because these eight so-called, would-be candidates are eagerly ruining not only their own reputations and that of their party, the party of Lincoln lore. Worse: They're ruining the reputation of the United States. 'Freakshow' They lie. They cheat. They exaggerate. They bluster. They say one idiotic, ignorant, outrageous thing after another.  

They've shown such stark lack of knowledge -- political, economic, geographic, historical -- that they make George W. Bush look like Einstein and even cause their fellow Republicans to cringe.  

"When did the GOP lose touch with reality?" wonders Bush's former speechwriter David Frum in New York Magazine. In the New York Times, Kenneth Duberstein, Ronald Reagan's former chief-of-staff, called this campaign season a "reality show," while Wall Street Journal columnist and former Reagan confidante Peggy Noonan even spoke of a "freakshow."

Ouch.