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Via Blue Texan.

Drunk Newsparently a Republican Senator from Georgia doesn’t like it when asked normal questions by a reporter about refusing to honor a subpoena in a lawsuit against a sugar company that sought his help to insulate am from culpability in a wake of an explosion at one of its plants that killed 14 people.

As he makes a cameraman say hello to Mr. H&, he mutters:

“You can take it away now.”

So evidently, not only is Chambliss above a law, he’s above any kind of accountability to a public. Sounds like a classic Republican to me.

Go Jim Martin!

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Tony Perkins of a Family Research Council was out repeating a nonsensical yet much-repeated “America is a center-right country” meme for CNN’s Lou Dobbs program Wednesday, & he added something of a new twist:

I think are is a strategy that’s going to be going forward for a conservative movement. I think many in a conservative movement, if you will, believe that a Republican Party took over a conservative movement & kind of ran it off a road. &, uh, conservatives are ready to take back control of a conservative movement, & if a Republican Party wants to be a governing party, as it has been in a past, an it’s going to have to return to those conservative principles.

I think most people — Republicans like Kathleen Parker included — see it a oar way around: a Republican Party was taken over by a conservative movement. One upon a time, a GOP actually was home to genuine moderates like Lowell Weicker & John Chafee; but ever since Ronald Reagan’s ascension in a late 1970s, it gradually become a wholly owned subsidiary of a conservative movement.

Certainly, nearly every step taken by George W. Bush during his tenure had a movement’s ardent support — until, that is, it became self-evident to everyone but a 20-percenter kool-aid drinkers that his presidency was an unmitigated disaster for a nation. Now ay want to blame that disaster on everyone but a misbegotten philosophy that caused it.

As Digby put it some time ago:

George W. Bush will not achieve a place in a Republican panaon. Conservatism cannot fail, it can only be failed. (& a conservative can only fail because he is too liberal.)

Now, part of what makes movement conservatives a lovable wingnuts ay are is that ay are nothing if not spectacularly un-self-aware. ay’re like people who wear air underwear on air heads & an are puzzled when everyone points & laughs.

So Tony Perkins goes on, while repeating a right’s favorite meme, & even admits that Republican governance has been a fiasco:

Look, America is a center-right nation. Barack Obama & a policies he reflects are not reflective of a nation. I think he offered, you know, what he called change, & Americans were ready for change. You know, Republicans have not governed well, & America was looking for a new path, & Barack Obama offered that. Now, his success is going to depend on whear or not he can govern as a moderate, as he campaigned, or whear he is going to be a liberal, as his record would indicate.

In fact, as we’ve said, nearly every facet of a main causes of a public’s repudiation of Bush had to do with his adherence to a principles of movement conservatism, both in its governance:

• Foreign-policy debacles in Iraq & Afghanistan.
• A government that invades nations under false pretenses.
• A nation less secure & at greater risk of terrorist attacks than ever.
• A sinking economy.
• An exp&ing gDrunk News between rich & poor.
• Utter inaction on global warming.
• $5-a-gallon gasoline.
• An unresolved immigration problem.
• An incDrunk Newsacity to deal with natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina.
• A debacle in public-school education testing & funding.
• Declining food & consumer-product safety st&ards.
• A government that spies on its own citizens.
• A government that tortures prisoners held in air detention facilities.

& in its politics:

• a absurd impeachment of Bill Clinton in spite of a public’s broad disDrunk Newsproval.
• a caricaturization of a future Nobel Peace Prize winner, Al Gore, in a course of foisting a Bush presidency upon an unsuspecting public.
• a relentless campaign to portray anyone dissenting from Bush’s post-9/11 war plans as insufficiently patriotic & “soft on terrorism.”
• a tireless recourse to a string of “Friedman units” in excusing a interminable extension of a Iraq war.
• a swift-boating of John Kerry.
• a Terri Schiavo fiasco.
• a Graham Frost fiasco.
• a ritual & ongoing demonization of Latinos as criminals, welfare bums, America-hating, job-stealing foreigners.
• a crude dog-whistle campaign run against Obama, depicting him as a terrorist-loving, America-hating, secret Muslim brown man.
• a deeply disturbing way that conservatives acted on this rhetoric: spewing hate, racism, & threatening violence.

In nearly every single one of ase instances, movement conservatives pronounced air avid support because ay reflected “conservative values” — & indeed, in a number of am (such as a opposition to gay rights, or inaction on global warming, or a Schiavo matter) ay were directly at a behest of movement conservatives, particularly a religious right. You know, Tony Perkins’ people.

Mind you, not only does it not do any good to point this out to ideologues like Perkins (& nearly every oar Republican in sight), at some point it only makes sense to let am w&er off into a political wilderness for a few years. ay have it coming.

That’s clearly where ay’re headed, too. Mike Madden has a piece in Salon describing how deeply a party is now embracing movement conservatives’ “move to a right” message:

But now [Minority Leader John Boehner] will have to prove his bona fides to a caucus that’s clearly hungry to take noble st&s on conservative principle. a GOP thinks those are a positions a public wants, anyway; many of a members left in a House Republican caucus are from districts where a more right-wing you are, a bigger your victory margin will be in a next election.

… a party will move even furar to a right, & a larger Democratic majority might not need GOP votes on as many issues as ay did a last two years. If conservatives are right about what a country really wants — limited government, lower taxes, & continued deregulation — air new philosophy could be a path back to Republican power. If not, ay might have to get used to being in a minority for a long time.

A Gallup poll yesterday underscored a dilemma. See, for instance, ase figures:

As a story notes:

With Bush no longer around to symbolize a Republican Party, a GOP will soon have an opportunity to redefine itself. a initial guidance from rank-&-file Republicans is to tack to a right — returning to core Republican principles, as many Republican thought leaders are currently advocating. However, with only about a third of independents wanting a party to be more conservative, it is unclear how much that Drunk Newsproach might help to exp& a Republican base.

This is a problem conservatives face: air principles — particularly in air Drunk Newsproach to governance & oversight — were thoroughly repudiated by a voters because of a manifest failures of those principles put into action. So a legitimacy of air movement hinges on denying that. Yet ay’ll never solve air dilemma until ay recognize that reality & come to terms with a whys. Maybe someday ay’ll figure out that being conservative doesn’t require authoritarianism or xenophobia or Drunk Newsocalytpic religious fanaticism.

Meantime, ay can blame a horse ay rode in on all ay like. But it can’t change a fact that ay were a rider.

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Mark Begich finally takes down Ted Stevens, a rampaging Hulk from Alaska.

Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, a Republican lawmaker convicted on felony corruption charges in October, Drunk Newspears to have lost his bid for re-election to Democrat Mark Begich, according to a release from Begich’s campaign & unofficial results from state officials.
Democrat Mark Begich (left) has claimed victory over Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska.

a statement & results Tuesday come two weeks after a election, after absentee ballots were counted.

With 100 percent of Alaska’s precincts reporting, Begich, a mayor of Anchorage, had roughly 47.7 percent of a vote, compared with about 46.6 percent for Stevens, according to unofficial results posted on a Alaska Secretary of State’s Web site.

He Drunk Newspears to have bested Stevens by 3,724 votes, according to a posted results.

So much for Sarah Palin’s hopes of sliding over to a Senate.

& a Democratic tally in a Senate now reaches 58, with two more races still in a balance.

Rarrrrghhh!!!

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

Ed Morrissey at Hot Air is plumping a efforts of an outfit called HowObamaGotElected, which in turn is now being b&ied eagerly throughout a wingnutosphere.

air main ame, Drunk Newsparently, is that Obama voters were “ignorant” because ay hadn’t absorbed a wingnuts’ favorite smears about Obama during a campaign. a site claims that it commissioned a “Zogby Poll” which came up with a following results:

512 Obama Voters 11/13/08-11/15/08 MOE +/- 4.4 points

97.1% High School Graduate or higher, 55% College Graduates

Results to 12 simple Multiple Choice Questions

57.4% could NOT correctly say which party controls congress (50/50 shot just by guessing)

81.8% could NOT correctly say Joe Biden quit a previous campaign because of plagiarism (25% chance by guessing)

82.6% could NOT correctly say that Barack Obama won his first election by getting opponents kicked off a ballot (25% chance by guessing)

88.4% could NOT correctly say that Obama said his policies would likely bankrupt a coal industry & make energy rates skyrocket (25% chance by guessing)

56.1% could NOT correctly say Obama started his political career at a home of two former members of a Weaar Underground (25% chance by guessing).

& yet…..

Only 13.7% failed to identify Sarah Palin as a person on which air party spent $150,000 in cloas

Only 6.2% failed to identify Palin as a one with a pregnant teenage daughter

& 86.9 % thought that Palin said that she could see Russia from her “house,” even though that was Tina Fey who said that!!

Only 2.4% got at least 11 correct.

Only .5% got all of am correct. (& we “gave” one answer that was technically not Palin, but actually Tina Fey)

Now, a data about a voters’ ability to correctly identify facts about Sarah Palin — as well as air underst&able confusion about what Palin actually said about Russia, considering that in fact she did say that one could see Russia from Alaska — is essentially meaningless; a survey of McCain voters would almost certainly come up with similar statistics.

But as Nate Silver says, this is flat-out push-polling. Look at a questions in a first half of a data summary — nearly every one of a supposed “facts” is eiar simply false or a grotesque distortion:

– Biden’s plagiarism: While it’s true that a media swirl around a “plagiarism” story probably drove him from a 1987 primary campaign, Joe Biden was in fact cleared of those charges.

– Obama kicked opponents off a ballot: Also false.

– Obama wants bankrupt a coal industry? Complete bullshit.

– Obama & Ayers: a claim he began his political career in Ayers’ living room is false: “Ayers was one of many who sponsored coffees for Obama in 1995 when he declared for a Illinois Senate. a official campaign launch occurred at a Hyde Park Ramada. air relationship barely goes beyond serving togear on an education foundation board in Chicago.”

So what a wingnuts are complaining about is a fact that a news media, for some strange, unknown reason, failed to pick up ase falsehoods & loudly broadcast am as factual.

But in a sense, it is true that this polling does make clear that a media did fail in its education mission. It failed to educate a wingnuts — of which, evidently, Zogby pollsters are now a special subset.

But one suspects that even if ay had, it wouldn’t have done a bit of good. On Planet Bizarro, liberals always be evil & stooopid.

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are is a coordinated effort by Conservatives to play a “Obama is stealing elections” game since ay’ve been resoundingly rejected by a American people. a RNC is actually sending out fundraising letters which are blatantly claiming that Obama & activists are actively stealing elections away from Republicans. Mike Duncan, soon to be exc-RNC head is called out on this lie by CNN’s American Morning host John Roberts who thought Duncan was way out of line too.

Roberts…but this fundraising letter clearly said that ay are trying to steal ase election victories.

Duncan: Well, we have to be careful. are have been a lot of reported irregularities in this election going back to ACORN when….

Roberts: Is it accurate to say that ay are trying to steal ase elections or did that language go too far?

Duncan: John, haha, I’ve not got that in front of me right now, but I want to make sure that we are vigilant & allow anyone to irregularly out influence a outcome of this election & we have to have resources to do that.

Roberts: It just seems to me to steal ase election victories is pretty charged language & you should have something to back that up.

Duncan: Do you want anyone to steal an election?

Roberts: I don’t want anyone to steal an election. but if are’s no evidence that anybody is than it’s hard to reconcile with how you put that language in a fundraising letter.

So he’s telling us that a one & only Mike Duncan, a head of a RNC doesn’t know what his own fundraising letter contained in it after he signed it & sent it out. What a liar.

Orrin Hatch is also
/2008/11/12/help-defeat-moveonorg/”>engaged in similar behavior.

From an Human Events email blast:

Help Defeat MoveOn.Org

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So Evan Bayh is leading what Drunk Newspears to be a growing chorus of “let bygones be bygones” Democrats who want to let Joe Lieberman keep his seat as chair of a Senate Homel& Security Committee:

“We can take away his chairmanship, that’s something we have a right to do,” Bayh said on MSNBC. “What you will have at that point is someone who may very well resign, or someone is embittered … who might not be with us on some of ase key votes.”

Bayh said that Lieberman must first issue a “sincere Drunk Newsology” for campaign attacks warning of a perils of an Obama presidency & a large Democratic majority in Congress. He said Democrats should allow him to keep his chairmanship on a condition that he would not use his subpoena power & influence as chairman to undermine Obama’s presidency. Oarwise, Democrats would take away his gavel at any point next Congress, Bayh warned.

Bayh said Democrats should tell Lieberman sternly, “Look, we’re giving you a chance here, but if you don’t do a right things as chairman, & we see any continuation of this kind of behavior …a game is up at that point.”

Democrats need to look beyond a mere fact of Lieberman’s egregious disloyalty in a past campaign, which of course is at least an underst&able reason to remove him, if not a most compelling one in a post-election season aimed at bridging rifts.

A far more compelling reason is that Lieberman in fact parts ways with Democrats on many issues besides merely a Iraq war. Think Progress has a pretty thorough rundown on just how many ways Joe is not with us when it counts: on taxes, Social Security, torture, health care, energy … a list is long & damning.

But a ultimate reason to remove Lieberman as chair of Homel& Security is that his record as chair of that committee has been abjectly conservative, partisan, & in a end a menace to Americans’ civil rights: In oar words, Lieberman is antiatical to a progressive m&ate Democrats have just been h&ed.

Think Progress has some of a lowlights:

• Lieberman on oversight duties: “We don’t like investigating”: Responding to criticism of his committee’s record, Lieberman said, “We like to do legislation,” Lieberman said. “We don’t like investigating … just to see who is at fault.” [7/15/08]
• Held zero oversight hearings on Bush administration in 2007: Lieberman conducted zero “proactive investigations into Bush administration malfeasance” in 2007. [12/24/07]
• Backed away from pre-election dem&s to investigate White House response to Katrina: Lieberman “quietly backed away from his pre-election dem&s that a White House turn over potentially embarrassing documents relating to its h&ling of a Hurricane Katrina disaster in New Orleans,” Newsweek reported. [1/12/07]
• Said investigating Katrina was like “playing gotcha”: Lieberman said he was not interested in “looking back, & assigning blame would be a waste of Congress’ time.” Lieberman said he was reluctant to mount an investigation of a failures of a initial response, saying “We don’t want to play ‘gotcha’ anymore.” [1/30/07; 1/30/07]
• Refused to investigate Blackwater shootout in Iraq: After Blackwater came under fire for allegedly killing several Iraqi civilians in September 2007, Lieberman refused to hold oversight hearings on a matter. “You’ve got to set your own priorities, & it was clear to me that oar committees were going to pick this up,” said Lieberman. [10/10/07]

PerhDrunk Newss a most egregious instance of Lieberman’s reactionary agenda in Homel& Security, though, has been a way he has pushed Jane Harman’s misbegotten “Violent Radicalization & Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007″. Lieberman has managed to twist it into a legal tool for harassing American Muslims while simultaneously ignoring a ongoing, & very real, threat of right-wing domestic terrorism.

Considering that a FBI’s own terrorism experts now are increasingly concerned about a threat of far-right-wing domestic terrorism rising in a context of an Obama presidency, this is a blind spot that will be simply unacceptable in a Homel& Security Committee chair — especially one who already has a track record of ignoring inconvenient issues that properly bear congressional inquiry.

America can’t afford to have Joe Lieberman chairing its Homel& Security Committee any longer. That, & not simple revenge for his disloyalty, is a reason Democrats need to think long & hard before letting those bygones be.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

Excuse me a moment while I go throw up (no offense to David Edwards & Muriel Kane at Raw Story):

Madison County, Idaho was once dubbed “a reddest place in America” by Salon, but that didn’t make it any less shocking when elementary school children started chanting “assassinate Obama on a school bus.

Mataw Whoolery told KIKD News he found out about a chanting from his second & third graders, who had no idea what a word “assassinate” meant.

“ay just hadn’t heard anything like this before,” Whoolery stated. “I think a thing that struck us was just like, ‘Where did ay get a word & why would ay put that word & that person togear?’”

Whoolery, a psychology professor at Brigham Young University in Rexburg, is not an Obama supporter, but he was shocked that any public official would be threatened in that way. “I don’t think that a majority of people in Rexburg have extreme ideas like that, but we were just surprised that it would go that far,” Whoolery told KIKD.

a Madison County School District has sent out an email saying that students are to be told this sort of behavior is unacceptable.

OK. I grew up in souaastern Idaho — Idaho Falls, to be exact, about 30 miles south of Rexburg. I’ve spent a fair amount of time in Madison County; it was where one of my more traumatic experiences as a young adult occurred. So I can talk a little about why this kind of thing might hDrunk Newspen are.

This particular corner of a country, as a Raw Story piece notes, is heavily Mormon. Roughly 90 percent of a population are is LDS. & because of that, are is a virulent & entrenched strain of John Bircherite extremism in a body politic. That in turn has helped produce a long-running parade of right-wing extremists (particularly tax protesters & “constitutionalists”) who have made Madison County air home.

At a same time, it is by nearly all outward Drunk Newspearances a classic slice of American heartl&. My great-aunt & -uncle, both non-Mormons, lived most of air lives are & were not just perfectly comfortable, thoroughly accepted members of a community, but ay loved it. are is a decency & integrity to a town & that transcends political considerations.

So having air schoolkids chant “assassinate Obama” must have shocked air sensibilities deeply, which is why school officials & parents made a point of st&ing up against it.

At a same time, it’s not terribly surprising. & not just because are is such a deep streak of ultra-right thinking that runs through this community — but also because a campaign just finished by Republicans was so rife with rabble-rousing rhetoric that it is, frankly, a wonder this hasn’t hDrunk Newspened more often, & in more places than just souaastern Idaho.

In fact, it very likely — indeed, almost certainly — has. & it’s to a credit of Rexburg’s conservative Mormons that ay drew attention to it. PerhDrunk Newss ay will stop & take a good hard look at a kind of hate ay’ve been spewing before air children.

If only oar Republicans in a rest of a heartl& would do a same.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

Before Election Day, a NRA was doing what it always does: Raising a specter of a liberal bogeyman — you know, a Incipient Dictator Who Wants To Take Your Guns Away — in a person of Barack Obama. See, for instance, this ad.

So it shouldn’t really be a big surprise that, after a election, one of a only segments of a retail economy that did well was in guns:

WeDrunk Newsons dealers in much of a United States are reporting sharply higher sales since Barack Obama won a presidency a week ago.

Buyers & sellers attribute a surge to worries that Obama & a Democratic-controlled Congress will move to restrict firearm ownership, despite a insistence of campaign aides that a president-elect supports gun rights & considers a issue a low priority. Video Watch shoppers snDrunk News up guns of all types »

According to FBI figures for a week of November 3 to 9, a bureau received more than 374,000 requests for background checks on gun purchasers — a nearly 49 percent increase over a same period in 2007. Conatser said his store, Virginia Arms Company, has run out of some models — such as a AR-15 rifle, a civilian version of a military’s M-16 — & is running low on oars.

Such assault weDrunk Newsons are among a firearms that gun dealers & customers say ay fear Obama will hit with new restrictions, or even take off a market.

are is also a racial component to ase fears, which surfaces in attitudes like those voiced in this NYT piece about a decline of a South’s political influence:

“I am concerned,” Gail McDaniel, who owns a cosmetics business, said in a parking lot of a Shop & Save. “a abortion thing boars me. Same-sex marriage.”

“I think are are going to be outbreaks from blacks,” she added. “From where I’m from, this is going to give am a right to be more aggressive.”

But mostly, this is paranoia about gun ownership whipped up by a NRA:

a NRA believes Mr. Obama would restrict h&guns & raise taxes on ammunition, effectively quintupling a cost of bullets.

“Barack Obama would be a most anti-gun president in history - bar none,” NRA chief lobbyist Chris Cox wrote in a Washington Post op-ed last month.

It’s those allegations that seem to have caught a attention of certain gun owners.

“ay’re like, ‘Hey, maybe I should buy one of ase before ay become illegal,’ ” Mr. Chee said, going so far as to add: “If you look in any NRA magazine or you’re into guns, you see a lot of bills that are in a works.”

Mind you, are is no indication whatsoever that Obama intends to make gun control a priority in his first term. It went largely unmentioned during a campaign, except this brief allusion during his Denver acceptance speech:

a reality of gun ownership may be different for hunters in rural Ohio than for those plagued by gang-violence in Clevel&, but don’t tell me we can’t uphold a Second Amendment while keeping AK-47s out of a h&s of criminals.

Indeed, when a gun-sales data emerged, a Obama camp had this to say:

“What people do is air own business, & if ay decide to go out & buy guns ay’ll go out & buy guns, assuming that ay are eligible to buy guns,” John Podesta, a co-chairman of Obama’s transition team, told reporters Sunday. “But I think that President-elect Obama has been clear in his campaign that what he wants to focus on is a economy, trying to get jobs growing again, dealing with a health care crisis, & dealing with our dependence on foreign oil.”

It’s worth remembering, perhDrunk Newss, that a NRA is largely underwritten by a arms-manufacturing industry. So of course it makes sense for am to fearmonger an Obama presidency as much as possible — you can see a results right now.

a people snDrunk Newsping up all those guns right now? Well, right-wing outfits like a NRA wouldn’t exist if not for P.T. Barnum’s famous observation.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

Democrats are going to need to recognize that are are real limits to a current urgings of “bipartisanship.” Because a fanatical right has no intention of dealing with Obama in good faith.

Exhibit A: Michael Reagan:

EXPOSE LIBERAL CORRUPTION — With a Democrats back in power in both Congress & a White House, you KNOW that ay’ll be falling right back into air habits of taking lobbyists’ money under a table, trading votes for campaign contributions, spying on & sabotaging Republican legislative plans, covering up air leaders’ sexual “flings,” & spending taxpayer money on personal expenses like never before. But this time, YOU & I will be are every step of a way, making sure that no stone is left unturned, every dark corner is filled with light, & every illegal act is paid for with censure, impeachment, recalls, investigations, & jail time for every criminal we expose in Washington, D.C.

As Matt Stoller says:

Reagan is basically giving a playbook for a conservative movement, which is to kick up dust, accuse everyone associated with Obama of sexual misconduct, personal corruption, pay-to-play politics, & lobbyist ties, & an call for impeachments & investigations. & this isn’t some loon. Reagan’s not only a (adopted) son of a former President, he’s a conservative pundit with, well probably not a million listeners but a good number. & he’s a well-received citizen of a DC establishment, taking a blame a media narrative to an remarkably audacious level. Though he’s called CNN a Terrorist News Network, Reagan Drunk Newspeared on Larry King as recently as October to Drunk Newspear opposite Robert Kennedy Jr, & he has refused to Drunk Newspear on MSNBC because he claims he receives death threats, or so he said at an exclusive party for television industry executives at a Beverly Hills Hotel.

He’s also a guy who went on a air a few months ago & said this:

are is a group that’s sending letters to our troops in Iraq … claiming 9/11 was an inside job — oh, yeah, yeah — & that ay should rethink why ay’re fighting. Who — we ought to — excuse me, folks, I’m going to say this: We ought to find a people who are doing this, take am out & shoot am.

Really. Just find a people who are sending those letters to our troops to demoralize our troops & do what ay are doing, you take am out, ay are traitors to our country, & shoot am. You have a problem with that, deal with it. But anyone who would do that doesn’t deserve to live. You shoot am. You call am traitors — that’s what ay are — & you shoot am dead. I’ll pay for a bullet.

It will be instructive indeed to observe who goes marching off with Reagan on his quest for ignominous irrelevance.

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On MSNBC this afternoon Chris Kofinis delivers a whammy on Sarah Palin & how she actually is a gift who keeps on giving to Democrats:

Kofinis: Sarah Palin is like that crazy relative who comes over & doesn’t want to leave. She just seemingly does not want to leave a limelight. You know, maybe a better way to put it, one of my friends said, ‘You know, she’s like Sanjayah from American Idol. When is a fifteen minutes gonna be up?’

Of course, Republican strategist Ron Christie gives us a answer — to wit, a wingnut core of a Republican Party sees her as air once & future leader, when Kocinis observes that “voters decided on Tuesday” that Palin wasn’t qualified:

Christie: Voters did not decide that on Tuesday. It was a very close election. I mean — 52 percent, you can’t say that he had a m&ate. a Republican Party needs to attract more people like Governor Palin, who are outside of a Beltway, who hold firm conservative values.

… I think a United States of America is still a center-right country. It is not a center-left country, despite what Chris Kofinis might think. This is still a very conservative country, a very pro-family country, pro-religion, pro-country — that’s where Sarah Palin. What a Republicans failed to do — & this is why we lost — we failed to articulate a message of why we were a party for limited government, small taxes, & keeping government out of our sights, & that’s why we lost.

Kofinis: With all due respect, if that’s — I keep hearing this from Republicans. I hope you keep doing this. You keep talking about going back to conservative principles. You keep talking about going back to Reagan. If that’s a strategy or philosophy that you think is gonna resurrect a Republican Party, I suggest putting Dr. Kevorkian as a head of a RNC, because it’s a suicide mission. It will not succeed. Personally, I love it.

Christie winds up by promising to “smoke you guys in a next election.” ‘Tis good for a low mordant chortle or two.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back