Future Sacrificial Lamb, Sarah Palin...

Quick hits.

Check the step-in by TXGov in that press conference. The repub governors from the Contiguous States of Real America, along with a nice amount of the party machinery, hate this woman. She's PeggyHillClueless, I think. Coming off a personal jet, shopping spree, adoring crowds whirlwind. Just biding her time until 2012 to run again.

Check the comedy of Pat "White People Need to Breed More" Buchanan and random black (ugh) republican. Black dude's like "party needs to change," Old Man Buchanan, how fucking apropos? can't even conceive of what he's talking about.

So the repubs aren't going to get it together any time soon. They just can't present a viable alternative to the coming Democratic left-pragmatism. They'll have no organizing principle by 2012. These things don't just happen over the course of a presidential term. They have no organizing hero. No vanquished one to long for and get behind. Post 2008 election, they're left with the McCain the Antedilluvian, Romney the Creepy, Huckabee the Homely, RonPaul! the Crazy, and... oh yeah... Palin the PeggyHillClueless.

So I'm betting the left-pragmatic job creation scheme works pretty well in a few years. Things won't be great, but they'll be picking up. The country will be a few years older, more used to Obama. The muslim rumors will vanish. The skittishness about his readiness dissipates. And Americans get comfortable with BarryHussein. No reason to change horses midstream. Meanwhile, the repubs have no organizing principle, still. And they need a sacrificial lamb. Up steps Sarah...