While we'll never fully resolve the stupid vs. evil debate, I do think that in the earlier days the great and glorious leaders of the Republican party knew that their job was polishing a turd. Whatever Lee Atwater was, he wasn't an idiot. But a generation of people raised on their brand of tasty, polished turds decided that they really liked the turds. And now they run campaigns. Ask Eric Cantor how that worked out.
