Irony Alert: Feeble CNN Hack Says GOP Is Irrelevant

There's something oddly ironic seeing CNN has-been Jack Cafferty rail about a political party being irrelevant and calling a man six years his senior a feeble old white guy.

This week the Republicans gather for their convention. For four days, they will labor under the illusion their party is still relevant. It's not.

It is entirely fitting that the headliner for this masquerade is a feeble looking 72-year-old white guy who doesn't know how many homes he owns.

Wow, still using that homes bit? Geez, Jack, that's so two weeks ago. Freshen it up a bit.

It's more than symbolic that when a million Americans are losing their homes to foreclosure, the Republican candidate for president has lost track of his holdings.

Is he not aware they're in Cindy McCain's name? Is he really that dense?

McCain surrounds himself with people like former Republican Sen. Phil Gramm who called America a "nation of whiners" and said we are only suffering a "mental recession."

Reading this, I'd say Gramm had a legitimate point.

That's the same problem the Republican Party has. It has lost track of what it used to stand for: small government, a disciplined fiscal policy, integrity.

In a way, the perfect storm of a rapidly changing population -- old white people aren't going to be in the majority very much longer (and isn't that who most of the Republicans are?) -- has combined with the total abdication of principles, Republican or otherwise, of arguably the worst president in the nation's history to mark the beginning of the end of the Republican Party as we know it.

Republican Congressman Tom Davis of Virginia said it best: "The Republican brand is in the trash can. If we were dog food, they would take us off the shelf."

Being I'm not a feeble old white guy yet, that line sounded familiar. So a quick search of it turned up, ironically, in this Cafferty missive from two weeks ago.

As one GOP congressman put it earlier this year: “the Republican brand is in the trash can… if we were dog food, they would take us off the shelf.”

Is Jack getting so feeble he's recycling his own material from August 19?

Of course, that line from Davis is now nearly four months old. Lord knows how many times Cafferty has used it since.

Republicans under George W. Bush have done a lot of damage to this country in the last eight years -- but they have done more damage to themselves. It will take a good long while and a great deal of soul searching before their brand returns to the shelves in good standing.

Speaking of feeble old white guys, who runs over a bicyclist and doesn't stop for help?