Posted on 10/26/2008 2:07:09 PM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia
Jim Nuzzo, a White House aide to the first President Bush, dismissed Mrs Palin's critics as "cocktail party conservatives" who "give aid and comfort to the enemy".
He told The Sunday Telegraph: "There's going to be a bloodbath. A lot of people are going to be excommunicated. David Brooks and David Frum and Peggy Noonan are dead people in the Republican Party. The litmus test will be: where did you stand on Palin?"
Mr Frum thinks that Mrs Palin's brand of cultural conservatism appeals only to a dwindling number of voters.
He said: "She emerges from this election as the probable frontrunner for the 2012 nomination. Her supporters vastly outnumber her critics. But it will be extremely difficult for her to win the presidency."
Mr Nuzzo, who believes this election is not a re-run of the 1980 Reagan revolution but of 1976, when an ageing Gerald Ford lost a close contest and then ceded the leadership of the Republican Party to Mr Reagan.
He said: "Win or lose, there is a ready made conservative candidate waiting in the wings. Sarah Palin is not the new Iain Duncan Smith, she is the new Ronald Reagan." On the accuracy of that judgment, perhaps, rests the future of the Republican Party.
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These snobs have run this country for 30 years.
It is time to tell them to F off, scram, vamoose, get lost, retire, and move over.
Add Paul Ryan and Bobby Jindal into the mix and the GOP might even be attractive again in the 2012.
They got the headline wrong. It will mean civil war for the country.
I don’t think this is true. Will be just like 1980. I would bet on Newt Gingrich united the party, although I still believe John McCain will win this election.
elitist scum.
Well these fine upstanding conservatives, along with Barnes of FNC have sure shown their colors. I canceled my subscription to Barnes’ dumb magazine. The rest, never watched or read them anyway. Noonan has gone tippy in the brain of late.
Rush, Sean, Beck and Ingraham for me. Who needs more.
I love Sarah but it seems like that's just a leetle mite premature. I, for one, will welcome the demise of the current Republican leadership types.
Correct. What Peggy and kathleen P are advocating is REPLACING Reagan conservatism with a putrid hybrid of liberalism and “social” conservatism. In other words, veer left but keep close to being a moderate. Well, that didn’t work when Karl Rove & McCain appeased La Raza and the pro-illegal organizations, did it?
Yea. And our job here at Free Republic is to fight tooth and nail to keep these scum bag traitors out of the tent after the Mc/Palin win. These slimes will attempt to slither their way back in under the radar. A purging will be the Order of The Day ! Even against the wishes of the new president....One Term Johnny !
This “landslide” talk would be moot if McCain had done the CONSERVATIVE thing and dismiss the bailout for what it was—SOCIALISM....he’d be leading the polls now..instead he had to “get along” with the conventional liberal wisdom (oxymoron I know) and vote for the miserable failure of a bailout. This whole doomsday discussion would be on the Democrat candidate who faced a landslide against him if McCain had lead with conservatism.
Conservatism isn’t dead....it’s just not practiced by the people who really count...and the guy who counts the most is the presidential nominee.
Geez, Palin is a singularly attractive candidate, is plenty conservative, gives a great speech, but has some limitations as evidenced by the degree to which the McCain camp has kept her away from the media. She hasn't been used as a talking-head campaign spokeswoman on news shows, as would have been the other widely discussed VP possibilities. Making failure to acknowledge Palin's limitations as a litmus test seems somewhat counterproductive. Brooks, Noonan and other suspect conservative, have betrayed their Obamaphilia in other ways besides their skepticism over Palin.
Sadly, I suspect any CIVIL WAR will extend well beyond the party.
If Obama loses, it will probably come down immediately.
If he wins, it will just take a bit longer to develop.
Pray for America — the ORIGINAL IDEA!!!!!
Yea. And our job here at Free Republic is to fight tooth and nail to keep these scum bag traitors out of the tent after the Mc/Palin win. These slimes will attempt to slither their way back in under the radar. A purging will be the Order of The Day ! Even against the wishes of the new president....One Term Johnny !
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