In Delaware we have all the factions that comprise the greater (to use a term loosely) GOP.
In Rick Jensen we have the empty headed nutbags who love Sarah Palin. I don’t listen to Jensen’s show but I heard a teaser for the show yesterday and Jensen’s Palin boner was as obvious as a basset hound trying to hide under an oriental rug. Jensen, is a perfect representative for the empty headed nutbags in the GOP because he likes Palin’s ability to get under the skin of liberals and he thinks she is cute. The Jensen’s of the world want a President as stupid as they are. It is reassuring to them to know that stupidity is not the liability their high school teachers claimed it was.
Opposite Jensen you have the Republican intelligentsia represented by Dave Burris. Although you and I know Burris to be a moronic windbag, he passes for intelligentsia among Republicans because he has money, tucks in his shirt and sets his table with a complete knife, fork and spoon even when he is not having a soup course. The Burris/Romeny’s once had the whip hand in the GOP and the nutbags like Jensen dutifully fell into line because the money men would pay lip services to the nutbag agenda.
There is a new Gooper-world order now though and the sand has run out of the Burris/Romney hourglass. Over the next eight years we will see the Palin/Jensen nutbags get increasingly saucy in their criticism of the GOP intelligentsia because 1) they blame the “intelligentsia” for picking McCain and 2) they think they can win if they only pick “real conservatives” (read whackos) to run for office.
Yes. It is going to be entertaining to watch the Jensen/Palin nutbags take over the party, but the stirring finale will be when the Burris/Romney’s get to meekly accept their fate and dutifully fall into line to endorse the ascendant nutbags in return for empty promises to cut the “death tax.”