[Vision2020] Support for Palin Now Test for GOP Orthodoxy?!!

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> but...what do you think of Sarah's likeness being hung in from a home in
> Hollywood?   This has gone way too far....
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> http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/27/effigy-palin-hanging-noose-halloween-fun-says-owner/
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> Both sides in this election need to step back from what has turned into one
> of the uglist electiosn of all time.
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> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 2:20 PM, <nickgier at roadrunner.com> wrote:
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>> Huff Post, October 27, 2008
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>> With the GOP looking more and more set to fracture as the possibility of
>> electoral defeat looms, the cannibals' knives are out. Consider this quote,
>> via Yglesias:
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>>    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".
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>>    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?"
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>> Hold it now. They're serious about going all in with the Palin loyalty
>> test? Uhm...apparently so! Nuzzo adds:
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>>    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."
>>
>> Yowee. So, for the sake of Sarah Palin -- who many conservatives correctly
>> assessed as the candidate-born-yesterday -- a whole slew of
>> Republicans-in-good-standing are going to be thrown under the bus? That's a
>> serious civil war, or rather, a war betwixt the Serious and the Un-Serious.
>> Keep in mind that Palin's critics are not marginal figures in the
>> conservative movement. We're talking the aforementioned Brooks and Noonan
>> and Frum, and we're adding Christopher Buckley, George Will, Kathleen
>> Parker, Colin Powell, Charles Krauthammer, Matthew Dowd, and for the sake of
>> argument, we'll throw in Chuck Hagel, Andrew Sullivan, and Christopher
>> Hitchens, even though I hesitate to pin any of them to any sort of
>> doctrinaire conservative group.
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>> This is, indeed, a "bloodbath," and for what? A distinctly semi-pro
>> Alaskan governor who's more or less made the charisma-free Tim Pawlenty look
>> like What Could Have Been?
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>> Additionally, this sort of line-in-the-sand drawing avoids another obvious
>> truth -- come 2012, someone besides Palin is going to vie for the GOP
>> nomination. Someone like, say, Mitt Romney, who famously earned the backing
>> of the National Review, which called him a "full-spectrum conservative."
>> What happens to Romney, now that he's on the wrong side of the Palin line?
>> Because that's where he is:
>>
>>    Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers, some of whom are
>> currently working for Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin's bid for the
>> White House, have been involved in spreading anti-Palin spin to reporters,
>> seeking to diminish her standing after the election. "Sarah Palin is a
>> lightweight, she won't be the first, not even the third, person people will
>> think of when it comes to 2012," says one former Romney aide, now working
>> for McCain-Palin. "The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the
>> Republican Party is Mitt Romney. He's in charge on November 5th."
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>>
>>    [...]
>>
>>    Some former Romney aides were behind the recent leaks to media,
>> including CNN, that Governor Sarah Palin was a "diva" and was going off
>> message intentionally. The former and current Romney supporters further are
>> pushing Romney supporters for key Republican jobs, including head of the
>> Republican National Committee.
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>> If I read this right, the GOP is set splinter into a trio of factions: the
>> Palin-philes, the Romney remainders, and those excommunicated from the
>> movement for daring to make a lick of sense at one point. Fitting isn't it,
>> that a McCain loss might precipitate his party coming to resemble the
>> factionalism of the Iraqi misadventure they all cooked up in the first
>> place. Maybe Joe Biden can help them reach some sort of triple-partition
>> solution!
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