Republican fears of historic Obama landslide unleash civil war for the future of the party

UK Telegraph ^ | 10/26/08 | Tim Shipman

[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.

[sam_paine]

In North Carolina, where Senator Elizabeth Dole seems set to loose,

Good grief. Don't the English even speak their own language?

[True Grit]

"cocktail party conservatives" who "give aid and comfort to the enemy".

These so called party conservatives are destroying the republican party. I am sick and tired of these spineless wimps who refuse to stand firm on principle and crumble at the slightest hint of criticism.

[dforest]

We no longer trust these people. They are unprincipaled snobs that are counter productive to the American cause.

We the people have no use for them.

[BlueStateBlues]

Peggy Noonan wrote the “Thousand Points of Light” slogan. Now we can rephrase it to include her: “999 Points of Light and One Point of RINO”

[PajamaTruthMafia]

Our excommunicators?

[padre35]

Those pernicious Vichy Republicans, those weak wristed, wobbly Vichy’s who long only to bow down to Liberals are disgusting to real Americans.

I bet each one has a interview with the Obamao if..and I said if, he wins.

[tanknetter]

Peggy Noonan tries portray herself is a loving caring human being. She is anything of the sort. She is an vindictive, rude, arrogant, backstabber that I would not trust with my silverware.

My mother used to be a huge Peggy Noonan fan. One of her prize possessions was a copy of "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness" that I'd had Noonan sign for her during a signing event at the Trover Shop in Washington DC. It sat on her bookshelf next to other books signed by Margaret Thatcher, Barbara Bush, Robert Bork and Jordan's Queen Noor.

Mom recently asked me if I wanted the book back, as she really likes Palin (Mom is very much a New York/New England Rockefeller Republican in ideology, but also a "Broken Glass Republican" when it comes time to vote), sees Noonan's posturing as a betrayal and doesn't want the book on her shelf anymore. I told her that if she was going to take it down regardless, to just store it away somewhere ... at some point she might be able to sell the thing on eBAY.

[Vision Thing]

peggy noonan and her brethren are useful idiots for obama.

[abb]

Who?

[BlueStateBlues]

Even though Palin lacks some polish, which she is picking up and improving daily, she is the conservative standard-bearer in this election. Anyone who mocks her, runs from supporting her, or country-club weasels looking down their nose at her, has taken out official RINO cards. Now we know who they are. More will expose themselves this week. RINO’s taking flight and the rest of us remain at the barricades to inherit the party.

[Cboldt]

-- David Brooks and David Frum and Peggy Noonan are dead people in the Republican Party. --

Or they and others of their "centrist" mindset will take over the party and supervise its demise. The centrists move in, and kill off the party that they aimed to control.

[PajamaTruthMafia]

I think it's more what their opposition to her betrayed about themselves than oposition to her per se. In other words, she brought out their true feelings and it wasn't pretty.

[Cboldt]

-- I canceled my subscription to Barnes' dumb magazine. --

Bill Kristol is another buffoon who needs to be in the unemployment line.

[Diogenesis]

Noonan and the rest are disgusting, and should be thrown out.

[vox_freedom]

From article: Mr Frum thinks that Mrs Palin's brand of cultural conservatism appeals only to a dwindling number of voters.

Hey, there, Mr. Frum.

[PajamaTruthMafia]

Nominated for excommunication. Seconded?

[padre35]

The Vichy Republican list:

Colin Powell..check

Scott Mclelan..check

William Weld...check

Doug Kmeic...cehck

Freid...check.

David Frum...check

David Brooks..check

Chris Buckley...check

Adelman..check..

George Will...check

Peggy Noonan...check

Feel free to add to the Vichy Republican list, one and all, bring the noise, this stuff is unacceptable.

[reformedliberal]

What if the moderate staffers (country club rinos) are the ones keeping her away from the public, except for their friends Charlie and Katie? What if the real story is McCain is furious that these underhanded manipulators have been taking over his campaign?

Sarah is threatening to the establishment.

[lonestar]

Sarah Palin has done more for this woman's career than she had been able to do for herself.

Barely noticeable before she started trashing Sarah!

[PajamaTruthMafia]

Excellent. I hope you’ll be the keeper of the list...

Add Hagel