TW: Some Republicans have confronted the absurdity and vacuousness of the McCain/Fembot ticket and acknowledged the need for new leadership, others almost mindlessly at this point continue to beat the drums of tired Republican orthodoxy and worse head down the word of barely concealed bigotry. William Kristol leads the cro-magnons.
From Packer at the New Yorker:
"...[the Republican plan] write a new script for Palin and say you freed her to be herself so that people will stop noticing that her real, unscripted candidacy is preposterous. Then go back to the old playbook one more time. It would be hard to invent a more dishonest political strategy. When a party, a movement, and its shills unravel, the panic leaves behind a pretty bad smell. Kristol, born with an impressive pedigree, long ago sacrificed his intellectual independence to the Republican Party. His career is a cautionary tale of the mental corruption that comes with political power, and it has degenerated alongside the conservative movement for which he’s been a tireless publicist...
Meanwhile, it’s left to a relatively young black man, charged by his opponents with being a radical, a liberal, a community organizer, a Muslim, and the anti-Christ, to save the establishment on Wall Street and in Washington."
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/georgepacker/2008/09/ill-always-thin.html
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