They must know if the Jihadis pull of another 9-11, not only is 0 finished. There won't be another D president for a long time. I'd go so far as to say a large chunk of people would look to Bush for guidance. I think people forget just how lost people were those immediate days after 9-11.
It is more than a little conceivable that the PTB are engineering it such that a strong aggressive authoritarian GOP stooge would then step in . . . or . . . shrudder . . . Shrillery.
I pray that somehow we could end up with Palin. God have mercy on us and make it so.
I just know that the PTB are determined to shred the culture and country and tighten the screws regardless of what they engineer to happen.