While you have been vacationing this summer and enjoying the beach, dastardly forces have been at work to bring evil to a computer screen near you.

Oh yeah, Ron Paul has his own teevee channel.

Could we possibly get any luckier?

The good news is that it’s only on the internet machine and – of course – he’s charging money to see it because what’s more important than “truth”?  Money.  Which he will immediately convert into gold and store in his bunker with his three year supply of food, his third world dictator arsenal, and his autographed copy of Atlas Shrugged.

Thanks to Marge for the heads up.

You know how you make a Christmas List?  I am convinced that Republicans make a tinkle-on list.

They need it in case they forget who to tinkle on next.  First it was minorities, then young people with student loans, then it was women, and the next thing you knew a Tea Party Rally looked just like domino night over at Uncle Bub’s Assisted Living Community.  It was a bunch of ole white men, carrying their lawn chairs and occasionally drooling.

And now they are losing that!

Seniors are now much less likely to identify with the Republican Party. On Election Day in 2010, the Republican Party enjoyed a net 10 point party identification advantage among seniors (29 percent identified as Democrats, 39 percent as Republicans). As of last month, Democrats now had a net 6 point advantage in party identification among seniors (39 percent to 33 percent).

—More than half (55 percent) of seniors say the Republican Party is too extreme, half (52 percent) say it is out of touch, and half (52 percent) say the GOP is dividing the country. Just 10 percent of seniors believe that the Republican Party does not put special interests ahead of ordinary voters.

I swear by next January, Rand Paul, Louie Gohmert, and Ted Cruz will be barely distinguishable from The Three Remaining Republicans.  I kinda hope swords won’t be involved because those boys have a real hard time not hurting themselves.

On the other hand …

Thanks to Llana and Rick for the heads up.

Thanks to John A. Kwitkoski for designing this for us.

Rick Perry and Julian Castro got into a little tweet battle tonight.

Guess who won?

Thanks to Marge for the heads up.

Tomorrow morning, 9:00 a.m. my time on This Week with George Stephanopoulos …  (I lied.  It’s 10:00 my time)

Plus, as potential 2016 candidates start trekking to Iowa, we go one-on-one with Donald Trump on his weekend visit to the Hawkeye State. And the powerhouse roundtable debates all the week’s politics, with Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, and ABC News’ George Will and Donna Brazile.

Louie Gohmert with Joaquin Castro!

I wonder if Louie is going to challenge Joaguin to prove he’s not an Islamic terrorist in disguise.

And they just throw in Donald Trump for some extra stoopid on top!

I might stay up all night waiting!

Thanks to Cynthia for the heads up.

The only thing more scarce than a liberal Democrat in Texas is a Republican in Vermont – especially a Tea Party Republican.

But they have one far rightwing one named KrisAnne Hall and her group has 12 LIKES on Facebook.  A dozen.  Total.

So when the local Vermont Republican Party invited her to speak, they seem to be culling the herd down to less than a dozen votes.

Well, she used to be an assistant state’s attorney in Florida. She was fired in 2010 for giving political speeches at Tea Party rallies “educating ‘citizen groups’ about the Constitution,” and defying her boss’ order that she stop doing so.  She used her firing as a springboard into a new career as a public speaker and living martyr for the Cause.

Her website goes wild all over the GOP.  They are far too liberal for her.

So, if the Vermont GOP is turning right, ain’t they sending the breeding stock over to the Democrats?

And can’t Vermont send some to Texas?

Why not?

Thanks to Carol in Vermont for the heads up.