RW Fundies trying to steal an entire country, Iraq; now trying to steal an entire political party:

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http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/09/a_word_more_on_palin_and_the_r.php

"...Second, I wonder how Palin's mocking, contemptuous tone about Obama will travel and age. It was great inside the hall -- again, think of Al Franken, who would of course have been funnier. But the track record of cocky-sounding newcomer politicians is not so great.

Yes, Ronald Reagan dismissed Jimmy Carter with "there you go again." But that was in 1980 -- sixteen years after Reagan came to national political prominence with his 1964 convention speech (not one week after most of the public had first heard of him, as with Palin), and after his two terms as governor of the nation's most populous state. George Wallace was great with wisecracks but didn't win nationally. Nor did Pat Buchanan. The strongest example would be Spiro Agnew, as Richard Nixon's tough-talking running mate. But when they won, the fundamentals were in their favor -- unpopular war, unpopular incumbent party -- rather than working against them, as they do for the GOP now...."