A Virtual Political Jonestown

Richard Cohen says that you shouldn't drink the kool-aid (or attend the Tea Party), it's poisoned:

But the net effect is to establish an intellectual barrier for admittance to the presidential race: Independent thinkers, stop right here! If you believe in global warming, revenue enhancement, stimulus programs, the occasional need for abortion or even the fabulist theories of the late Charles Darwin, then either stay home — or lie. This intellectual rigidity has produced a GOP presidential field that’s a virtual political Jonestown. The Grand Old Party, so named when it really did evoke America, has so narrowed its base that it has become a political cult.

That is exactly right.  If you can't ignore doubt and parrot the party line, get out you infidel.  Thank you very much, I'm gone.  Anybody who won't try to raise revenues when they are at a 50 year low as a percentage of GDP is somebody who shouldn't be governing.