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Complicating the coming fight is a widening gap between the party's
grass-roots activists and its intellectual elite. Gov. Palin sits
squarely in the center of the debate. Embraced by many social
conservatives in the party's base, she was dismissed by some party
leaders, including some former government officials who endorsed
Democrat Barack Obama. Activists see her as the party's future, others
as a novice whose at-times shaky performance has doomed her prospects
-- a split reflected in polls that showed her popularity dropping
during the general election, but her supporters' enthusiasm high. [WSJ]
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This is just too much. I propose that "party leaders (Scott McClellan?!)" who endorsed Obama, aren't. "Intellectual elite?" Nobody who endorsed Obama deserves inclusion in Intellectual anything. Not unless those flibbertigibbets can cut through the Gordian Knot - what accomplishment was it that recommended Obama to them as president? It was they who
ignored every honest Pat Toomey that came along, in favor of the
"moderate" Arlen Sphinter equivalent. It was they who gave us
John McCain!
Dismissing Sarah Palin as a "populist," is too cute. And therein
lies the prollem. These slugs can no longer tell the difference
between Ronald Reagan and Joe Biden. At this moment in time Sarah Palin
is the titular head of the Republican Party, and deniers do so at the
risk of being the next Chuck Hagel.
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