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If Palin and Levin Walk, the 2016 Nomination Is Not Worth Having Here is the respected pollster Pat Caddell: The alienation among Republican voters is so high, that a quarter to one-third of the Republican party are hanging by a thread from bolting. Caddell was asked, “[D]oes the math show you that there could be an uprising and could the GOP go the way of the Whig Party?" The GOP leadership, the lawyers, the lobbyists, the consultant class of the Republican party, and all the big donors don’t understand that these people are angry. … They are saying that John Boehner doesn’t care about them, and all he cares about is the special interests. I’ve never seen anything like this in the base of a party. And that is why the analogy to the Whigs is not so far-fetched. If the Republican nominee is an establishment figure, a Bush or a Christie, then he has to face the question of his relationship with GovernorPalin. [The]conservative activists, whose turnout in the 2014 midterms was crucial to the GOP's landslide, are in no mood for what they see as a RINO Establishment candidate. The Establishment can take up the left's mantra that Palin is irrelevant – or, as Robert Costa advised, "Palin is diminished" – but her 91% endorsement success in the 2012 midterms belies such nonsense.  Palin's endorsement is the prize desperately sought after and the key to success for the likes of Cruz, Fischer, Haley, and many others.  If she asked her millions of followers to follow her out of the GOP, or indicated to them that they would be better off fishing on election day, the effect on the presidential campaign would be massive.  If Levin's huge listener audience (And who knows?  Limbaugh might join in.) were also advised of either path, then it would be foolish to imagine that the few states that the GOP desperately needs to have any chance of victory – and the loss of just one would end their hopes – would not be put out of reach. The ball is in the Establishment's court – not Palin's or Levin's.  If the Establishment chooses to betray the voters who gave them control of Congress, and chooses to support Obama's amnesty agenda and other liberal policies, then when, not if, the rupture comes, it will be the Establishment's doing. I wrote that possibly the GOP's best and only chance would be a Palin/Bush (in any combination) ticket, as that would be the only way to heal the breech and keep the party together.  A true conservative Virginia gentleman and strong Palin supporter advised that he is against that "because it is the only thing that will save the GOP, and it is beyond saving." Such is the plight the Establishment has visited on the party.  They will pay the price if it goes the way of the Whigs.  Perhaps the old gentleman is right. [The Full Monty] Surprisingly, I find this article heartening.  Well, I guess not surprisingly because I feel the same way.  If a Boehnor establishment Republican tops the 2016 ticket, I will not vote for him. I mean, we've had Obama; what democrat could be worse?  And something else; a Palin, Limbaugh, Levin led movement would I think successfully kill the GOP dead.   Then we can get back on the road to fixing stuff.  USA UAS USA!