Newt is correct: There are plenty of GOPers with warped ideas who can become de facto leaders of the Party, or just plain facto leaders. lol

EYE OF gingrich NEWT, TOE OF UGLY sara palin TOAD!

MY, MY, HOW THESE G.O.P.* fudge-pachyderms ARE CARRYING A LOAD!

BUBBLE, BUBBLE, TOIL AND TROUBLE!

FIRE, BURN! AND CAULDRON BUBBLE!!!!!

THIS WITCH-B-I-T-C-H'S BREW DOES NOT AT ALL WELL FOR G.O.P BODE!!!!!

*-G(rotesque) O(pportunistic) P(ederasts)

HAH!!!!! (^0^)V VENGEANCE UPON gingrich, palin and rethug-reslug-repugnicants EVERYWHERE!!!!! I'LL BURY THE HATCHET, RIGHT BETWEEN THEIR EYES!!!!!

Having Sarah Palin as the de-facto head of the GOP would be great! And would serve the consrvatives right for having delved that deeply into bogus low-brow popularism and the politics of divisiveness and personal destruction. They should be made to have Palin be their spokesperson because the gibberish and misinterpretation of reality that is the hallmark of her candidacy is appropriate and should teach 'em a lesson.

Next time they select a candidate like that why not skip the expensive clothing and just buy a handfull or flag motif speedos and some high heels.

After demonstrating that she hardly knows what she is talking about when it comes to issues of national concern, Sarah Palin has proved that her clout is primarily as an instrument of manipulation -- of which the Republican party has become characteristically fond. She appeals to "average Americans" because she talks plain like them. Who cares if she's qualified? Who cares if our modern world calls us to wrestle with difficult facts? Sarah tells us we can keep our apple pie, our xenophobia, and our cultural ridigity. Everything else is un-American. And apparently, plenty of our citizenry are happy to hear just that!

There are four years before it becomes dire. Four years to track whether the evangelized and neo-conservative leaning base created in the Bush era learns that good leadership requires at least as much intelligence as chutzpah, whether it digests the lesson writ largest in the past decade: that governing through sheer stubborn force of will, without the ability to second-guess, question or allow counterpoint is a folly of archetypal proportions. I anxiously hope that the Republican party comes to its senses, esteems reason over tactics, because Sarah Palin has exactly this willfulness in spades, and she makes it very sexy.

Thanks especially to kickstarts for the "McClellan outs Bush" link

http://adap2k.blogspot.com/2008/11/mcclellan-bush-cia-valerie-plame-wilson.html

...and to Xran for calling more attention to it. Also thanks to Xran for the 8:00 comment stating, much more eloquently than I, the sentiment I clicked on Alex's item to express:

Who gives a good goddamn WHAT Newtie or Sarah say?

Is this the same guy who has smoked pot but at one time wanted the death penalty for smuggling 50 or more grams of cannabis?

Michigan just became the 13th state with medical marijuana laws and here we have a person "stalking" future increased political power who wanted cannabis smuggling to end with death if it was a "second" offense.

Republican's recycle Gingrich at their peril. Palin is without substance and therefore risks attracting Republican support.

Hey good call!

PAGING ALEX KOPPELMAN:

On Saturday, Scott McClellan gave a talk in which he admitted, in unambiguous terms, that George W. Bush told him point-blank he had authorized the exposure of Valerie Plame's covert status.

I listened to the audio Saturday night. I found the link to the audio on a web site I sometimes visit called WhatReallyHappened.com.

You should check it out, and so should Glenn Greenwald, though I imagine Greenwald knew about it within a couple hours after it was released.

Run, Sarah, run. Go, Newt, go. I truly hope you are both the future of the Republican party, along with "intellectuals" like Grover "Drown it in the bathtub" Norquist.

The Republican Party is on its way to the big dumpster of history, and good riddance. Ariana Huffington proposed, last week on Olbermann, that we need a Marshall Plan to revitalize the Republican Party.

But I disagree. The Repubs are too far right, and still heading out. Let 'em go the way of the Whigs and Nazis. What American really needs is a major left wing party. The Repubs, in their death throes, have dragged the Democrats 'way past the center, to where today's Democrats are more right wing than the Republicans of the 1960s - and these guys were then just coming down off the communist witch hunts of the 1950s!

There's little indication that the Democrats are coming back to the populism of Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson. These Dems will be bailing out the stupid CEOs and top executives of General Motors, Ford, etc and keeping the hedge fund operators partying like it's 1928. So Americans need someone else who will put Americans first - not American corporations and the monied class.

America needs someone who doesn't just show his weathered face every Leap Year, when it's time for the next Presidential election. America needs a leftist, populist party, full time, that will start winning seats at every level of government, particularly the bottom rungs, gaining credibility and name recognition.

Anybody interested?

The ex-press secretary admits on CSPAN that Bush exposed Valerie Plame.

http://adap2k.blogspot.com/2008/11/mcclellan-bush-cia-valerie-plame-wilson.html

The admission is roughly at the 29 minute mark on the audio. All this 24/7 Palin coverage is embarrasing.

I posted in the Guiliani thread about Palin-Guiliana debates in the 2012 Republican Presidential primaries. I was looking forward to the red meat and blood everywhere.

But this thread offers an even more enticing concept:

Rudy-Sarah-Newt three-way's!

Each one would slaugter the others:

>Ms Palin mentions "Family Values" and Newt/Rudy (with six marriages and counting between them try to defend).

>Rudy shouts "9/11" five times and Sarah/Newt get tangled up as they thump their chests repeatedly to look as tough as Rudy.

>Newt drops fifty meaningless statistics about sixty unrelated areas and Sarah/Rudy give blank looks because they have no idea of anything Newt is talking about (but then neither will anyone else).

And watching the FoxNews team take sides and slit each others' throats will just add to the carnage/fun.