Matt Taibbi sums "It" up perfectly.

I just had one of those trippy moments where I stumble upon an essay that sums up perfectly something I'd been struggling to articulate in a eloquent fashion for quite a while.

No, it was while watching the debates last night that it finally hit me: This is justice. What we have here are chickens coming home to roost. It's as if all of the American public's bad habits and perverse obsessions are all coming back to haunt Republican voters in this race: The lack of attention span, the constant demand for instant gratification, the abject hunger for negativity, the utter lack of backbone or constancy (we change our loyalties at the drop of a hat, all it takes is a clever TV ad): these things are all major factors in the spiraling Republican disaster.

Go read it.