The GOP Civil War has started - GOP'ers who did not support Palin will be excommunicated!

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

The prospect of an electoral rout has unleashed a bitter bout of recriminations both within the McCain campaign and the wider conservative movement, over who is to blame and what should be done to salvage the party's future.

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The prospect of defeat has unleashed what insiders describe as an "every man for himself" culture within the McCain campaign, with aides in a "circular firing squad" as blame is assigned.

More profoundly, it sparked the first salvoes in a Republican civil war.

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In addition to Mr Frum, who thinks her not ready to be president, Peggy Noonan, Ronald Reagan's greatest speechwriter and a columnist with the Wall Street Journal, condemned Mr McCain's running mate as a "symptom and expression of a new vulgarisation of American politics." Conservative columnist David Brooks called her a "fatal cancer to the Republican Party".

The backlash that ensued last week revealed the fault lines of the coming civil war.

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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".

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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He said: "She emerges from this election as the probable frontrunner for the 2012 nomination. Her supporters vastly outnumber her critics. But it will be extremely difficult for her to win the presidency."

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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." On the accuracy of that judgment, perhaps, rests the future of the Republican Party.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics...-the-party.html

[rebeccajo 14]

I cannot seriously believe that Palin will be the choice in 2012.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

I cannot seriously believe that Palin will be the choice in 2012.

According to Mr. Nuzzo, any Republican who doesn't think so is "the enemy".

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Sarah Palin...she is the new Ronald Reagan."

Reagan was a socialist by her standards. See how.

[IAMX 3,055]

I cannot believe Palin hasn't just broken out in laughter during one of her stump speeches about Ayers or terrorists.

There's not a single logical person that would take her seriously.

Edited October 27, 2008 by SRVT

[Cassie 8]

I cannot believe Palin hasn't just broken out in laughter during one of her stump speeches about Ayers or terrorists.

There's not a single logical person that would take her seriously.

I know someone who said to me "if we had gone to high school together, I know we'd have been best friends". She thinks that Palin is the greatest thing since sliced bread. And yes, other than this, I consider her very logical.

[dalegg 143]

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He said: "She emerges from this election as the probable frontrunner for the 2012 nomination."

Pass some of that over my way.

[Marilyn. 340]

I cannot believe Palin hasn't just broken out in laughter during one of her stump speeches about Ayers or terrorists.

There's not a single logical person that would take her seriously.

I know someone who said to me "if we had gone to high school together, I know we'd have been best friends". She thinks that Palin is the greatest thing since sliced bread. And yes, other than this, I consider her very logical.

well to be fair, Palin seems like a nice enough person....

she just doesn't seem suited to be VP or President...

[IAMX 3,055]

I cannot believe Palin hasn't just broken out in laughter during one of her stump speeches about Ayers or terrorists.

There's not a single logical person that would take her seriously.

I know someone who said to me "if we had gone to high school together, I know we'd have been best friends". She thinks that Palin is the greatest thing since sliced bread. And yes, other than this, I consider her very logical.

Which part do you consider logical? Religion in schools? Drilling in the ANWR? Ditching her responsibilities as a mother of several children to pursue a political career? Suggesting she can see Russia is a legitimate amount of foreign policy experience? That women shouldn't have the right to abortion in the cases of rape and incest (never mind any other time besides life and death) ? That she has no real answers on the economy, and the only thing she can do is shout catch prases of "drill, baby, drill"?

I'd sure like to know the logical parts here. And this is without posting the infamous Youtube video of her debate and interview fuckups.

[Marilyn. 340]

I cannot believe Palin hasn't just broken out in laughter during one of her stump speeches about Ayers or terrorists.

There's not a single logical person that would take her seriously.

I know someone who said to me "if we had gone to high school together, I know we'd have been best friends". She thinks that Palin is the greatest thing since sliced bread. And yes, other than this, I consider her very logical.

Which part do you consider logical? Religion in schools? Drilling in the ANWR? Ditching her responsibilities as a mother of several children to pursue a political career? Suggesting she can see Russia is a legitimate amount of foreign policy experience? That women shouldn't have the right to abortion in the cases of rape and incest (never mind any other time besides life and death) ? That she has no real answers on the economy, and the only thing she can do is shout catch prases of "drill, baby, drill"?

I'd sure like to know the logical parts here. And this is without posting the infamous Youtube video of her debate and interview fuckups.

i think she was talking about her friend and not Palin

[Danno 1,228]

Does anyone recall who Bob Doles Running mate was?

There is a reason you can't recall him. He was no threat to the Left.

Who knows what things will look like in four years?

We Do know The Left was so worried over Little Sarah Palin that they unleashed more fire power on her than McCain!

She literally knocked Obama's Campaign on it's ### for three days after her convention speech.

In fact that was the only time the Obama machine has been stalled, this whole race.

(hey ya gotta hand it to em)

The more the Left swears she's "dead in the water"... the more inclined I am to keep my eyes on her. (with pleasure)

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As for fellow republicans, stabbin their own party in the back.... it' couldn't have happened to a more deserving candidate; John F McCain.

Most of the back-stabbers listed are really "in the beltway" middle of the road types.

Hell the article even had David brooks as a "conservative" Ha! what joke.

It's time for new blood in the Party.

[Cassie 8]

I cannot believe Palin hasn't just broken out in laughter during one of her stump speeches about Ayers or terrorists.

There's not a single logical person that would take her seriously.

I know someone who said to me "if we had gone to high school together, I know we'd have been best friends". She thinks that Palin is the greatest thing since sliced bread. And yes, other than this, I consider her very logical.

Which part do you consider logical? Religion in schools? Drilling in the ANWR? Ditching her responsibilities as a mother of several children to pursue a political career? Suggesting she can see Russia is a legitimate amount of foreign policy experience? That women shouldn't have the right to abortion in the cases of rape and incest (never mind any other time besides life and death) ? That she has no real answers on the economy, and the only thing she can do is shout catch prases of "drill, baby, drill"?

I'd sure like to know the logical parts here. And this is without posting the infamous Youtube video of her debate and interview fuckups.

i think she was talking about her friend and not Palin

Indeed, I was talking about my friend who is very logical, not Palin.

[Teacher Mark 53]

Does anyone recall who Bob Doles Running mate was?

Jack Kemp. I'll take Right Wing Wackos for $1000.00 Alex.

Edited October 27, 2008 by Joe Six-Pack

[Saddle Bronc 124]

Net result of this whole will be...a wet (as in totally sodden) squib (or, another Brit expression, "tempest in teapot")--basically, the issue will disappear.

[Danno 1,228]

Does anyone recall who Bob Doles Running mate was?

Jack Kemp. I'll take Right Wing Wackos for $1000.00 Alex.

Right you are!

Your politics might be jacked but nothing wrong w/ your sense of humor