Palin is the new Reagan

Republican fears of historic Obama landslide unleash civil war for the future of the party

Jim Nuzzo, a White House aide to the first President Bush, dismissed Mrs Palin's critics as "cocktail party conservatives" who "give aid and comfort to the enemy".

He told The Sunday Telegraph: "There's going to be a bloodbath. A lot of people are going to be excommunicated. David Brooks and David Frum and Peggy Noonan are dead people in the Republican Party. The litmus test will be: where did you stand on Palin?"

He said: "Win or lose, there is a ready made conservative candidate waiting in the wings. Sarah Palin is not the new Iain Duncan Smith, she is the new Ronald Reagan."

Excuse me while I stop laughing. You think that with all the problems going on in America right now, the biggest problem for your party was that it wasn't sufficiently right wing enough? That people within the party didn't support Palin enough? She's the future? I'm struggling to remember how you guys even got elected in the first place. Didn't you used to be smart? Was it really all just Democrats being awful and stupid?

You should thank Brooks and Noonan and guys like Andrew Sullivan, they're the only ones actually looking out for the future of your party. Palin is the new Reagan? I don't have the best memory of the Reagan years, what with being born in 1981, but wasn't he actually popular and not reviled as unfit by 70% of the populace? Regardless of the truth of these perceptions, wasn't he viewed as electable and competent enough to be President by a majority of this country? Palin is most assuredly not. If you want to hitch your Radio Flyer to her, be my guest, I like seeing epic failure slowly cresting over the horizon. But before you purge all the non-believers who were concerned about winning and appealing to someone other than the comment section dregs of Free Republic and Red State, maybe you should listen to what they said beforehand and compare it to what's gonna happen on Tuesday the 4th and the resulting exit polls. It'll be enlightening.

When you pick the person to lead you out of the wilderness it's not supposed to be someone who leads you into an even bigger, deeper, lonelier wilderness.