Kos has his take on the Republican options - the neocons are out, the theocons are poor, and the corporate cons aren't game changers the way Dean was. The evangelists have been burned by the party in the last eight years, and I think Huckabee's absence of insanity, his genial humor, might lead the party to a more genuine compassionate conservativism. But Palin is all ugliness and ignorant righteous hatred, the unaware spawn of Fox News. Her speech at the convention was horrifying for its ignorant dismissal of Obama (then again, Giuliani was even worse).
Me - I'm thinking about an ongoing project now, all about the rebuilding of the party. Will it get uglier before it gets a big tent message? I wonder what the Obamacons think about that. When will the party be safe again for them? And what will that look like, given how conservative and steady Obama's leadership demeanor is?
