Hmmm, I wonder why the Republican Party is in trouble

Perhaps things like this are contributing to voters seeming to flee the GOP: "Sacramento County Republican leaders Tuesday took down offensive material on their official party Web site that sought to link Sen. Barack Obama to Osama bin Laden and encouraged people to 'Waterboard Barack Obama' – material that offended even state GOP leaders." I love "even state GOP leaders"! But the material that was posted is truly frightening, and it wasn't just some off-the-wall comments by fringe commenters. This was stuff posted by the Sacramento county party chairman. A party spokesman tried to justify it by saying that the Democrats have played the race card, but acknowledging that this material "went too far." Yeah, right.

The Sac Bee website has a slideshow that shows some of the material that was removed, for example this: