Its pretty sad that everyday people won't vote GOP unless they think there's an imminent terrorist threat and that the world will end if they don't!

In one fell swoop, Bush took the GOP from almost a permanent majority to unforeseen years in the wilderness. That is why they should make sure future leaders have the right stuff between their ears!

Like our current president, Obama is a professed Christian. Yet whereas George W. Bush once identified Jesus Christ himself as his favorite philosopher, the president-elect is an admirer of Reinhold Niebuhr, the renowned Protestant theologian.

Obama read the Federalist Papers, W lied when he said he reads Camus.

The party is dysfunctional. Granted, these idiots within the GOP are more sane than the scum on the left who have been attacking her (and the GOP) for the most debased motives (as we've seen with some writers on this site, included), and I question the desire of some in the party to rely on Newt Gingrich as the party's re-designer and reviver (he was on NPR this morning). But it's true that (despite the lunacy among the cult-faithful) that this wasn't a big embrace of Obama, much less the Dems this year but that the US public “fired the Republicans with [for] cause.” And at least someone like Gingrich, whom I don't like, is better than, say, Andrew Sullivan, who may as well be wearing blue drag and sporting a D on his forehead. (Was that he on the Diane Rehm show on NPR some time ago who was _sniveling_ about the Bush administration's well-known approval of torture? Not only is that old, tired, stale news, but to snivel about it is absolutely disgusting. Go wear a goddamned blue dress…)

I guess they're already beginning to work on the “pallin' around with Palin” meme. Good stuff – the GOP eats it's young.

“Reform message?” I still think it's a celebration of mediocrity.

My wife, who is English-born, immediately saw this as a shameful insult to bot h Margaret Thatcher and to the British, and I, who as a former Republican still have some respect for Ronald Reagan, see it as an insult to the former President and as an afront to (former) Conservatives.

Probably the old guard realizes that they can't win a national election with a candidate that attracts the base while losing the middle. They may be tired of losing and tired of the social cons' hold over the party.

Divisive politics is out of style- unity is in. The GOP misjudged the mood of the country and tried to run the same kind of campaign that George W won with in 2000 and 2004.

With new shows set in Minnesota and Alaska yet to debut, I'm going to have to consider buying the non-butter flavored kernels though.

I happen to think Sarah Palin is a moron, but the sliming of this woman is way over the top, and it bears all the hallmarks of a classic Romney hit job.

Seriously, she may be “Human, likeable, personable ” but that doesn't mean she should be running the country. George W. Bush was human, likeable and personable and we've seen how well that's gone. She is massively unqualified and divisive. And people don't want that. It isn't some vast conspiracy trying to discredit Palin, it is just that Palin isn't the person for the job.