No doubt, the Democrats are guilty of ignoring data when it doesn't fit their politics, but the tolerance (and often promotion) of complete bunk by the GOP is offensive.

I have an open ear for smaller government, and for economic strategies that leverage the private sector instead of the public, when able, but there is just so much anti-intellectual baggage in the Republican party nowadays that it is very difficult to find a candidate that I could possibly support. The Dems have their own baggage, but I usually find it to be far less ridiculous.

Michigan's Governor Rick Snyder is a Republican, and I find him to be a fairly reasonable person. I voted for him. I don't agree with everything he is doing, but I can understand where he is coming from. He has rational arguments for his decisions. The GOP desperately needs more Rick Snyders, and a lot fewer James Inhofes. The GOP not only has too many people that say ignorant things, it has too many people that are afraid to contradict this ignorance.

That said, I don't think pieces like this do much to improve the situation. Ridicule of ignorant folks will not change them. The media needs to be ridiculed for giving ignorance an equal voice.