Back to Alaska

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