Palin and Jidal are the new lifeblood of the GOP. If more young, moderate conservatives (NOT neo cons) pop up over the next four years they can save the Republican party. The establishment Republicans need to go.

And Romney needs to just hang it up.

In my view, GWB and BO are equally odious — I reject them both! Two sides of the same neo-fascist coin.

But again, I support Palin and think she is great, although I disagree with her ideologically.

No Way, No How, NObama 2012!

Then there is the 30-33% LEFT wing nuts — what we call the Obamabots — and they are thugs. Those of use who live in caucus states and dared to go as Hillary supporters suffer the full force rage of the O-butts. Also the O-butts were trained in “community organizing” techniques — so in a way the LEFT wing nuts are perhaps worse than the right wing nuts. The really hard core radical right and left probably have 15% each. These are the ones who are fully committed cult members.

I get these percentages from the numbers that hold firm in opinion polls.

That leaves about 40% in the middle — the moderates. These are the realists — who can often see both sides of an issue.

It seems to me that the hardened extremes on either pole are growing in number.

Authoritarian personalities — right wing, left wing — and both want to forced EVERYONE to believe and worship the ONE. But only their cult leader is the ONE.

Both of these extreme are very rigid in their belief system.

Could it be that the former Mitt Romney is gathering a cult following and trying to take the mantle of the ONE from bush? He’d have the money to deliberately build up his following.

Rove made bushie into the ONE of the right — and the radical Left tried a different approach — extreme brand loyalty. Sort of like the old Pepsi/Coke brand wars. This is AxleSNOT’s background — marketing — and so he packaged O-zero and sold him as the anti-bush. Marketing Psychology is used on us all the time — GM over Ford — Ivory dish detergent over JOY.

It was inevitable that psychological warfare be used to sell competing brands — except that McCain didn’t play the game — so only the ONE was playing the game.

Many voters had their minds fucked by sophisticated psychological marketing. They bought an illusion.

The real Obama is mostly an unknown — except that we know that he is a typical Chicago crooked politician.

Problem is the illusion also has no experience — WE know the facts — but the majority of voters have been conned.

1)The McCain staffers leaking this stuff are just trying to cover their own butts for their flawed (to put it delicately) campaign strategy execution. They’re scapegoating Palin to save their reputations and win future campaign roles. One reason I don’t think McCain himself has anything to do with this is that every smear of Palin reflects poorly on him: Both as the man that picked Palin and the man that picked the staff. It makes his judgment questionable.

2)Someone in the GOP establishment wants to destroy Palin because they see her as too polarizing to win a general election campaign. Her popularity with the base would guarantee she wins the GOP nomination but she’d go down in flames (assuming she cannot re-establish her reputation beforehand)during the general election. It’s kind of a “we must destroy this village to save it” type strategy. I saw similar chicanery going on with respect to Huckabee. Some big GOP muckety mucks were terrified he’d actually win the nomination.

No incumbant ran this time, so turf wars were fought Right and Left. With McCain’s loss, there’s no clear winner yet on the Right. But the ferocity of the attacks on Palin prove that she’s regarded as being formidable. McCain would’ve finished worse without her, in spite of the spin (again, turf war) that she was a drag on the ticket. Ambitious Republicans are in a free-for-all.