LAT on Republicans

The LAT's Janet Hook this morning explains, from a liberal's perspective, how far off base the Republican presidential candidates and the GOP are. She suggests that the candidates misunderstand the mood of the country and she expresses surprise and disappointment that they continue to support Bush policies with only slight modification. She seems to think that Republican voters are nut-cases. To prove her case, she quotes a political analyst from the Brooking Institution, which she labels "centrist," who argues that the GOP must remake itself but must suffer one or two electoral defeats before it comes to realize that.

It's all quite reasonable to a liberal.