The relevance of the Grand Old Party

Eight years of the Bush administration - eight years of incompetence, fear and paranoia. Eight years of the Sanford administration in South Carolina - eight years of contention, incompetence and embarrassment.

With political embarrassments like Rep. Joe Wilson who publicly calls the president of the United States a liar; to Senator Jim DeMint who votes against anything proposed by the Democrats, good or bad, just because they're the opposition party; to Republican party chairman, Michael Steele who tries to rewrite history by blaming the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq on the current administration; to Lexington County Senator Jake Knotts who calls the president and the Republican gubernatorial nominee "ragheads;" to all Republican legislators in Congress who vote to deny extended unemployment insurance benefits to millions of out-of-work citizens; to Nikki Haley, GOP gubernatorial candidate who has received more than 20 percent of campaign contributions from carpetbaggers from out of state; to Rep. Joe Barton, R.Texas, who apologizes to BP chairman Tony Hayward and sees, not the local fishermen, but the oil giant as the aggrieved party in the Gulf oil spill disaster and to Rand Paul, Republican senate candidate from Kentucky, who calls the president's criticism of BP, "un-American."

With this disgusting display of arrogance, indifference and callousness, why would anyone ever again vote for a candidate representing the Republican party?