Are Republicans Crazy?

By Doug Bandow

After the latest Republican presidential debate, viewers must ask: are the candidates crazy? Not Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.), who proposes dropping a nuke on Mecca or Medina. But the others, who have tied themselves to the Bush administration's disastrous Iraq policy.

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President George W. Bush has led the country over the abyss into a needless and needlessly botched war. Now he is leading his party over an electoral abyss.

Indeed, several of the GOP candidates are being advised by the very neoconservatives who concocted the current Iraq policy. Unless leading Republicans join Rep. Paul in detaching themselves from the failed Bush policies, many more voters are likely to conclude that the leading Republicans are crazy. Read more.