Political Perplexion

Sarah Palin, Tim Polenta, Michelle Backmaniac and Chris "Chris" Christy, all GOPer presidential candidates or touted as same, have one thing in common revealed by polls this week: were they nominated to run in 2012, they would each and all likely lose their own home states.  Their home state GOPers don't even favor them as presidential candidates.

The former governor of Alaska would lose Alaska, the former governor (T.P.) and current congressperson (M.B.) from Minnesota would lose Minnesota, and the current governor of New Jersey would lose New Jersey.  They each and all have higher unfavorables than favorables in their states, by a lot. 

And yet...GOPers in Congress are holding the world economy hostage, and GOPer governors and legislators in many states are enacting the most radical laws ever passed since at least the Civil War and post-Reconstruction.  They are criminalizing abortion, a protected constitutional right; they are violating civil rights all over the place, creating blatantly discriminatory tests for the right to vote, cutting programs for the poor and sick--even taxing the poor--while enacting giveaways worth billions to the rich and favored corporations.  To the point of classic corruption.  All without attracting much notice in this supposedly information-rich society where nothing escapes unnoticed.  Unless it's not trivial, I guess.

Perplexing.  If you have any residual hope of this political world making any sense.