The fact is, the GOP has a weak bench, and you can thank Bush and his cronies for that. Cheney as VP for 8 years? Really? Horrible cabinet selections? Is that a way to build for the future?

Whuh?! We haven’t fully vetted the man who occupies the “Office of the President-Elect” (whatever that is), and you want to complain about Palin? Didn’t a gaggle of democratic lawyers go to Alaska to “vet” her? What did they find?

Spare us the brainless quips. Greedy people in this country want to keep people with true conservative principles out of government. Meanwhile, the ignorant masses are duped by flowery speeches, and the population’s level of consciousness goes no further than American Idol, celebrity award shows, and a chef who screams at everybody.

The success our ancestors worked for and saved for is being looted because we have invested nothing in it. We’re more interested in rumors of drama within a campaign than the principles that guide the candidates. What a disgrace. The People will get what they deserve.

Palin in 2012 will crash and burn just as bad as McCain 2008, and rightly so. I was dismayed to read that the planned GOP response to the defeats this cycle is to ‘purge the party of moderates’. Hope you all enjoy minority status for the next thirty years. I will find it difficult to continue to support a party that abandons all logic and reason for feel good populism and sentimentality. People want realistic solutions to the nation’s problems, not knee-jerk decision making ala the previous eight years.

If the party leadership can’t recognize that and wants to continue to be a suicidal echo chamber, consign yourself to one party rule.

I’ve got a rock solid principle to propose the GOP adopt: competency. Wild, I know, but it just might be crazy enough to work…

(waiting for Rugby to weigh-in)

http://www.slate.com/id/2203800/entry/2204034/

“The Republican Party’s Baghdad Bobism with regard to Palin, a denial so pernicious that party operatives were willing to let her sit a heartbeat away from the presidency in a time of war and financial collapse, revealed what really ails the party. The “P Factor” isn’t a single person but a sickness that will have to be acknowledged and cured…. ”

Chris, you left out the Abramoff-Duke Cunningham- Ralh Reed axis of power/corruption.

Maybe the GOP should resolve to stay out of bedrooms and its preached homophobia, while the folks like Foley, Craig, Gannon, and Haggard embrace homosexuality in the TRUE sense of the word.

Has there EVER been a party so full of hypocrites as one who, even NOW, pushes the LIBERAL Saxby Chambliss – violator of every single tenet of the GOP, instead of purging HIM.

Purging me and Peggy Noonan while LOVING SAXBY. Yeah, THAT is a winning strategy…..snark intended.

As for Palin, she needs more time to be evaluated and to prove herself, like Obama was over the 4 years following his ‘04 keynote address to the Dem convention.

Seriously, though – there was a pretty amazing pair of graphics in the NY Times a few years ago. One was the chart of CEO pay versus stock performance – pure scatter, no correlation whatsoever. Another was a chart of how various compensation boards across the Fortune 500 were intertwined. It was very much a “you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours” setup.

I’d link ‘em, but I believe that my subscription wall is different than many others since I have a “university” account.

Now he is the most liberal Pres.-elect in our nation’s history.

When Palin was added to the ticket that reinforced the decision we had already made. We need more candidates like her!

We don’t want rhinos or hybrids in the GOP. The hybrid consultants running McCain’s campaign naturally had to blame Palin on the loss.

These consultants are showing their true colors and if McCain continues to not defend Palin then his colors are showing as well.

You forgot corporate board member and CEO. I think the problem in both cases is that it is very hard to tie success and failure to personal performance. Also, the people that hire and pay you are the same people that you hang out socially with. Everyone’s in the same club and has the same secret handshakes.

Keep in mind that your pal and PP Master Erick Erickson was a BIG (and still is) supporter/ass-kisser of Bush-Cheney and their agenda.