Bill Bennett's Head Scratcher

Bill Bennett doesn't believe Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh are the future of the GOP. (He will of course be made to apologize for this.) It's who he does think is the GOP's future that boggles the mind.

“One of the things the media could do – some of the media – is to move the debate off Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh,” Bennett, a CNN Contributor, said on State of the Union. “This is probably not the future of the Republican Party,” added Bennett.

“You don’t think Gov. Palin’s the future of the Republican Party?” queried CNN Chief National Correspondent John King.

“I do not,” said Bennett. “It could talk about a Paul Ryan or a Mike Pence. It could talk about a Bobby Jindal. It could talk even about a John Kyl or a David Petraeus. You know, there’s a lot of talent in this party.”

Bobby Jindal and talent in the same sentence without the qualifier "complete lack of"? Honestly? The GOP wants to break into the 21st century with anti-science goons like Mike Pence? They want to go with another country club "Let's have Social Security invest in the stock market" Bushie like Paul Ryan? They want another Arizona Senator and torture apologist like John Kyl? And Bennett wants David Petraeus as much as America is sick of these wars?

Bennett's wrong of course. The new future of the GOP has nothing to do with who he named. It's being decided instead by the GOP's failed past: Dick Cheney, John McCain, and Newt Gingrich.