Let's face it, the party base went with McCain as a Hailmary.

It was a long shot, but they figured if anyone can make distance from George W. Bush work it would be the man that valiantly fought against him in 2000.

When McCain then turned out to be a hopelesly ineffectual leader, a man who makes George W. Bush seem like a poliical genius (which perhaps he is) people got tired of John McCain.

He threw another Hailmary and brought a woman who looked darn good on paper, but turned out to be just another failure on the part of McCain.

Now, the GOP is leaving McCain in droves, he's fighting to just hold onto what should be solidly red states like Nebraska, and Indiana.

So, the GOP is willing to walk away now, they know they lost, and McCain knows it too, they know that the best McCain can do now is keep Obama below three hundred so that it's not a total blow out.

A candidate needs both substance and style to win. If you have substance you can win without style, but if you have only style you just can't win. Style might make up for a limited amount of substance (as with George W. Bush) and strong stubstance can make up for a complete lack of style (As with George H. W. Bush) so long as your oppenant offers only substance as well (Dukakis) instead of style and substance (Clinton).

With McCain and Palin however you have what can only be described as an all style ticket. Neither one of these candidates have enough substance (at least not any more) to be seen as anything other than just empty suits.

That McCain is even showing up in the polls is based solely on good will left over from 2000 the same thing that got him the nomination, and the fact that just as there are people who would vote for anybody with a donkey next to their name there are those who feel the same way about republicans.

Obama's biggest struggle right now, is getting his first timers to the polls. If he can do that, not only will he win, but he'll win in a landslide turning states no one is even talking about right now, blue. If Obama's people don't get these people to the polls (perhaps because they feel it's a sure thing Obama will win) Obama will still win, just not by as large a margin, and might bring Sarah Palin back in 2012 (unlikely but you never know).

So at this point, The RNC want's to get it's senators and represenatives and governors elected, and really doesn't care about McCain and Palin as they careen off the rails.

...the GOP will continue with Palin and Romney after McCain and Palin so your braying to Allah on your prayer rug will have to be postponed.

"the GOP will continue with Palin and Romney after McCain and Palin so your braying to Allah on your prayer rug will have to be postponed."

Curses! You've blown my Salonista cover and revealed me to be the stealth radical Muslim terrorist that you always hoped me to be!!! Infidel dog, we'll reinstate the Caliphate yet!!!

Thank you, terk, for the first out-loud laugh of my day. Your open-handed baby slaps are sorta cute, even if your politics are in the toilet.

You keep talking to the wind, son.

After the bankruptcy of your impotent worldview comes to full flower, maybe when I see you downtown on that street corner I'll stop and buy an apple from your apple-box.

As the kids say, good luck with that.

Sorry to have wasted time on someone incapable of figuring it out.

Mr. Spergl,

I think you have a fair point and it wouldn't surprise me if the GOP as constituted today didn't exist in 7 years, in fact if a true conservative movement arose out of the ashes of the GOP with a new name and firm commitment to conservative principles I would be the first to stand and applaud. I think we all agree that at present Bush and McCain happen to be the notional leaders of the GOP but that doesn't mean that all people who vote Republican are happy with how Bush has governed or McCain's commitment to a conservative policy agenda. The honest truth is that the alternative choice, the Democratic Party circus, is just too irrational to take seriously as a voting option. As painful as an Obama presidency will probably be for the majority of working, tax-paying Americans (tax payers, not tax filers), if it becomes the catalyst for the splitting of the GOP into separate and distinct centrist and conservative parties than in the long-run America will probably be better off with its new three-party system. But whether or not that event occurs, the Democratic party will remain a sad and confused combination of special-interest groups who feel no remorse in cutting each other's throats as they vie for a preeminent position at the tit of the Obama government welfare machine.

"In psychology, psychological projection (or projection bias) is a defense mechanism in which one attributes one’s own unacceptable or unwanted thoughts or/and emotions to others." - wikipedia

Example from Rance Spergel's recent post;

"What I do is ... note the incredibly foul demeanor with which you conduct yourself.

Then I reach a conclusion. And my conclusion is that you're a world-class, A#1 jerk. ... P.S. Also, please note the first two syllables of the word analysis. In referring to you, such an embedded etymological referent is entirely appropriate"

Textbook projection.

If drugs don't solve it, you could try a lobotomy.

No taxes. Check.

No taxes. Got it.

oh, and no taxes. uh-huh.

...Because we don't want no socialist welfare state. Okay.

Anything else? Oh yeah support the troops.

Delphic, because the Oracle Dowd has wailed it from her cave inside the New York Times and her votaries (some of whom have trouble with spelling) are singing Dowd's praises. What's really going on is some bile-bonding because Sarah Palin is touching on their own insecurities. She "don't talk proper",you know, and didn't people like Jackie O (that's for Onassis, by the way) go to Vassar and were experts in fine art, ballet, fine food. Of course, the American public was horrified when their icon of the time went off and married an immensely wealthy and very ugly foreign billionaire. How dared she!

Sarah Palin has sort of upset the apple-cart to the intense irritation of so many journalists that it's laughable. I bet you that she doesn't even own a pair of Jimmy Choos or Manolo Blahniks and that, even though she knows about moose dressing, she doesn't yet know about " mutton dressed as lamb". She could take a peek at one or two of the prime specimens on "The View" some time.