on being reality based

Daily Kos: State of the Nation: "It's an alternate reality that any Republican with presidential aspirations, as Thune is generally perceived to have, has to perpetuate. There's no other way to appeal to the 'messianism and passionate intensity' of the teahadist base. It's an alternate reality that they have been able to force into the mainstream, by virtue of taking over the Republican party and gaining control of one House of Congress, partly because too few in the traditional media have been willing to point out that the Republican party has been taken over by people who are batshit insane."