"How did it come to this?"

Just for the record, when I am running down the GOP Wannabe field, exclude Huntsman from the broad brush. He's rational. He believes in science, not Unicorns. He's not "eating teabagger corn dogs." He's not talking about his biblical world views, and being president in the name of Baby Jesus. He's an empiricist, not a dominionist.

He hasn't got a snowball's chance in Hell, getting the GOP nom. The village full of idiots that is far too much the current GOP (otherwise, what I lump together as the wing nuts) hates (a) anyone smarter than them, and/or (b) not willing to pretend otherwise.

To borrow the line from Good King Theoden,"How did it come to this?"