Between the Bush implosion in progress and the latest smearfest against Buchanan-Foster, this has been quite a day of FReeping. Probably the most intense I've ever experienced. The split between Bushies and Brigadiers, GOP loyalists and third party rebels, establishment play-it-safers and anti-establishment insurgents is approaching critical mass. The status quo cannot hold. Conservatives can go one of two ways: Either there will be fusion -- one side joining the other in common cause -- or there will be fision -- a permanent and irreconcilable schism. I'm an optimist. I believe that, as the Bush campaign goes on to repeat ...