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

[Kris Freitag]

Chris,

 

I wholeheartedly agree. I hope the country will be able to move forward
after the election is over. 

 

Kris Freitag

 

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From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
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Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 6:14 PM
To: nickgier at roadrunner.com; Vision 2020
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Support for Palin Now Test for GOP Orthodoxy?!!

 

but...what do you think of Sarah's likeness being hung in from a home in
Hollywood?   This has gone way too far....

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/27/effigy-palin-hanging-noose-halloween
-fun-says-owner/

 

Both sides in this election need to step back from what has turned into one
of the uglist electiosn of all time.

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 2:20 PM, <nickgier at roadrunner.com> wrote:

Huff Post, October 27, 2008

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:

   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?"

Hold it now. They're serious about going all in with the Palin loyalty test?
Uhm...apparently so! Nuzzo adds:

   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.

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?

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."


   [...]

   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.

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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