The Schism

As BooMan points out, the coming GOP thrashing in the polls will rip the party apart:

Jim Nuzzo, a White House aide to the first President Bush, dismissed Mrs Palin's critics as "cocktail party conservatives" who "give aid and comfort to the enemy".

He told The Sunday Telegraph: "There's going to be a bloodbath. A lot of people are going to be excommunicated. David Brooks and David Frum and Peggy Noonan are dead people in the Republican Party. The litmus test will be: where did you stand on Palin?"

If that's truly the test for the wingnut branch of the GOP, then the Republicans are dead and buried for a long, long time. As I said before, the lesson the GOP hardliners are taking away from this election is that the reason John McSame is about to lose is that the problem is that he's not Sarah Palin, despite all the evidence to the contrary that Sarah Palin is in fact the largest single drag on the ticket.

But the GOP is never interested in any reality the GOP wingnuts haven't created themselves. The new reality they face is the wilderness.