On Nov 5, 10:25*am, Ken Fortenberry
wrote:
One of the things which surprises me about this election
is the splintering of the GOP.

Palin is the darling of the snake handling wing of the GOP
because she preaches the same old politics of divisiveness,
distrust of intellectuals and the glorification of ignorance
that is the core of the GOP "southern strategy". Small-town
Americans are the "real Americans", the dim, the dumb and the
racist are *US* and those snobby elites who look down their
noses at *US* are "them", the America hating godless commies
who want to take away our guns and tax us to death. It is
essentially a message of hate, an "us versus them" message
which resonates with the stupid.

The intellectual wing of the GOP is fed up, mainly because
this strategy failed so spectacularly. When Rove was winning
with this strategy the country club Republicans held their
noses, smiled at Rush Limbaugh and tolerated it. But now that
it has failed the GOP is fractured. Palin may very well run
in 2012 and do well with Grand Ole Opry Republicans but she
won't have the money or the clout to win the nomination. Her
presidential aspirations will fade away like all the other
losing VP candidates in recent history, Dan Quayle, Lieberman,
Edwards, Ferraro.

Back to Alaska bitch, and good riddance to you.

--
Ken Fortenberry

I watched both McCain's and Obama's speeches last night. I thought
both were very well done, and if McCain had handled his campaign the
way he handled defeat, this would have been a much closer race. He
made an excellent speech. One troubling thing, however.....whenever
McCain mentioned Obama, I heard a chorus of boos, but when Obama
mentioned McCain, I heard subdued applause. As someone who has voted
Republican in all but 2 elections, ( yesterday was one, Nixon's second
term the other), this was very troubling. This hatred and divisiveness
simply has to stop. This is not the Republican party I have supported
in the past. The hate mongers of the far right have assumed control,
and the ultimate expression of that control is Sarah Palin. Who in his
right mind, would have chosen her as VP? There needs to be some
serious soul searching by the Republicans.