Papantonio: The GOP's Cult Mentality - The Ring Of Fire

If you think that today's Republican Party is starting to look like a spooky religious cult, you aren't alone. As the American right lurches from traditional conservatism -- a go-slow approach to governing that stresses the importance of continuity and social stability -- to a far more reactionary brand typified by acolytes of Ayn Rand and Tea Party extremists waving misspelled signs decrying Democrats' "socialism", the time has come to ask whether modern "backlash" conservatism has become a religious faith rather than a pedestrian political ideology.