Heh. We’ve discussed how wingers sort of embrace the Republican Party as the “daddy party” - “Daddy, please save us from the bad Islamofascist bogeymen!” - while the Democrats are the girly-men mommy party, wussies like John Edwards who spend $400 on their hair.

Kurt Andersen suggests, though, that the country is beginning to realize the kind of “daddy” the GOP has proven itself to be:

Because the Republicans are being rapidly rebranded as a party of men who exemplify the least attractive, most pathetic aspects of the gender—they are the stubborn, arrogant, lazy, incompetent (Iraq, Katrina), hypocritical, crude, nasty fathers, Homer Simpson crossed with Tony Soprano, the kind of men who snarl and posture as old-fashioned patresfamilias but don’t come through when and where it counts. The GOP is becoming the deadbeat-daddy party.