To Speak the Truth - Or Not Speak the Truth: The Republican Base Dilema

Shakespeare would undoubtedly have a field day with the base of the Republican party. I can hear Shakespeare say in thoughtful muse over the rantings of Bachmann, Limbaugh, Gindal, Palin, etcetera:

"To speak that which is truth or speak that which is fantasy. Nay, not fantasy, for a muse this far adrift conjures up the dark spirits of the deepest, blackest and most vile abyss. Nay, not fantasy, I say. For these Sorcerers would fill our hearts with chilling fears and rend us into too many pieces to restore with our tongues left hot and dry, cracking from the foulest of foul. Our tears morn for our plight, they cannot fall to ease our thirst for that which is lost. Truth! Whereforth hath thou been driven. What madness drives this evil scourge upon us all. Our souls beware. Come! Ease our hearts and let thine presence sooth our minds with sense and sensibilities restored." (Shakespeare, in fantasy from a parallel universe).

Unfortunately, Shakespeare is not alive and we can only "imagine" what he might say in response to the rather peculiar stance the Republican base is taking.

I watched some of the footage on one of news stations covering one of the tea partys where a young man stood up and tried to tell everyone that if they earned less than $250,000 per year, they would not be taxed. He was booed off the stage.

I tried briefly to answer the question, "Why?" But that only caused my eyebrows to furl up and my eyes to squint. So, I go back to my own fantasy and "I sit with Shakespeare and he winceth not." I'd rather listen to Trane anyway.