One of the things that the article does not go into is the Sarah Palin factor. While we are still two to three years away from an active candidacy, it looks like the Alaskan Governor is making all the moves for a 2012 run. She should be the favorite of the teabagger crowd and the Wal Mart wing of the party. With the publicity about legalizing gay marriage, the social issue crowd would well be even more angry at that time. If there is no mainstream consensus candidate within the Wall Street wing of the party, she could well rack up many wins in the early primaries and end up the nominee. Some would love that. But others see her as a very divisive figure who could well repeat the 1964 Goldwater debacle in the general election.
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In the above article, we find that one of Palins biggest boosters is also one of the most beloved and despised people on the American political scene - Rush Limbaugh a man who proclaims that he has "talent on loan from God" while others view him as having a brain fried on oxycodone. Limbaugh comments on Palin regarding the recent rebranding situation:
"Something else you have to understand is these people hate Palin too," the conservative radio host said Monday. "They despise Sarah Palin, they fear Sarah Palin, they don't like her either. She's, according to them she's embarrassing. McCain said, 'I was there with Ronald Reagan'…. No Reagan voter ever believed McCain was a Reaganite.
"And I think… a lot of this is aimed at Sarah Palin. When you strip all the talk — It's 'the Reagan era is over, stop all this nostalgia and stuff.' Clearly, in last year's campaign, the most prominent, articulate voice for standard, run-of-the-mill, good old-fashioned American conservatism was Sarah Palin. Now, everybody on this [NCNA] Speak to America tour has presidential perspirations [sic]. Mitt Romney there, he wants to be president again. Jeb may someday. Eric Cantor, some of the others, McCain — I don't think he does, but you never know. So this is an early campaign event, 2012 presidential campaign, primary campaign, with everybody there but Sarah Palin."
You have to ask yourself is having Rush Limbaugh on your side a good thing for Palin? By and large, Limbaugh was pretty much a failure in determining any political outcome in 2008.
from CG
That's also the reason the Republican Party won't fall. The Democrats will save them, no matter what it takes, lest an actual opposition party rise up to replace it.
While I disagree totally, completely and utterly with that collusion based opinion, it does bring out an interesting question for discussion: who and what would make up another political party should the current Republican Party fail and go the way of the Whigs?