GO AHEAD, TRY IT THAT WAY.

Love seeing headlines like this at the Washington Times:

Is the GOP deliberately trying to sabotage the 2014 midterms?

The author is Tammy Bruce, a radio nut, whose complaint is that Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, the first of 57 official Republican respondents to Tuesday's State of the Union, did not froth at the mouth:

Criticism of the content of the GOP response has also been well-deserved. Within the first two minutes, the Republicans assured Americans that Mr. Obama (like the GOP) wants what’s best for everyone. Really? There are many people who legitimately have every reason to not believe that.

Among the reasons Bruce thinks Obama hates America and is "sending this nation off a cliff": Obummercare, Benghazi, and skree.

She also thinks Mia Love should have been selected to do the speech, because she has attained the exalted position of Mayor of Saratoga Springs, Utah,  and can froth with the best of them, but Love was kibboshed and Bruce suspects it's because the Republicans don't want to win in 2014:

Perhaps the current GOP leadership prefers things as they are: not enough power to do anything conservative of consequence, while watching (and applauding as House Majority Leader Eric Cantor did during the State of the Union) the liberal agenda, including de facto amnesty, become the law of the land...

Well, beats workin'. And if your emoluments of office aren't what they would be if you ruled absolutely, you can pick up the slack with advertising scams --  like the ad cluster that pops up when you go to Bruce's story at WashTimes.

We’re in this mess for a reason, and it’s because GOP leaders either doesn’t understand the conservative ideal (which is why they can’t articulate it), or they do understand it and simply don’t like it.

If that's true, it's probably the only thing "GOP leaders" and the American people have in common. Nonetheless I support Bruce's scheme to seize power by telling voters that the people most of them voted for are traitors. It's gotta work! And if it doesn't, well, can we interest you good people in Goldline?

UPDATE. smut clyde in comments: "Next year the official alternative SOTU speech will be delivered by a Siamese cat walking randomly on the keyboard of Stephen Hawking's speech synthesizer."