sorry no snark.

here's what i love most about the new republicans:
so, you are the republican party and you run a candidate (let's just say, oh, i don't know, palin) who - by all sound analysis on both left and right - costs the party the ticket (in fact, possibly the presidency in 2008). instead of going away however, the candidate and the candidate's (insane but unemployed and therefore available) base and the media keep this 'darling' in the public's eye.

the candidate gets money and attention. the base gets money and attention. the media gets attention (and money). win-win-win except for those who want some kind of actual government and political discourse.

two years later: HEY PRESTO! 'the economist' runs a piece saying the candidate has done a fab job re-making herself and is a savvy business-person and is now a politician to be feared on both left and right.

perhaps this pattern will ultimately hurt the right most and perhaps barry's long-game really does have an achievable end-game but i am very fearful we will be stuck with more sarahs, xtines and joes. and eventually they'll win.

and no my beloved lefties many of you on the left coast, barry is not a republican.