So it’s official: the lame-duck Republican Party learned nothing from the last election. It deserves to be crushed.

“Within minutes of Sarah’s resignation speech, I learned that as a “working mother” the Alaska governor did not want to sacrifice her children (including presumably the one who got pregnant by the jock) for her political career and that she was hanging tough and planning to go on teaching us “values.””

Dare I suggest that something hypocritical might be going on here? I admit, I was somewhat surprised that the Christian mother of a special needs newborn would accept an invitation to run for high office in 2008. I believe I’ve since heard Palin say, on TV, that she’d have to see how her kids are doing before weighing a Presidential run in 2012; but perhaps that’s only my imagination.

What kind of message does this send to Christian (and other) mothers? Part of it, I suppose, is that as a “pro-lifer” you don’t abort; but after you give birth, hey, throw the kid to the nearest neighbor (or relative) and get on with the “higher calling” of your career.

In my judgment, Palin is all about the business of “climbing a ladder,” and has little substance.

Neocons adore Givemhell Harry Truman, the innovator of UN-sponsored “police actions” and indefinite “undeclared wars” (Korea) – a family man and uninhibited warmonger who despised wimps like J. Robert Oppenheimer for articulating regrets over Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Sanford brazenly defiled the great “family values” of the Christian Socialist (Yeehaw Huckabee) wing of the Fox Republican Neocon Party so he must be excommunicated. With those awful love letters, Sanford is politically deader than a doornail. Right now, it looks like a 2012 rematch between Ken-doll Mitt and whomever the Christian Socialists settle on – Sistah Sarah or the Huckster.

Here’s an idea: get a young tart and teach her to recite libertarian doctrine and have her run for VP along with Ron Paul come next election. [There are some such lightweight sweet things being paraded in libertarian circles.]

An even better Idea is to have a Mixed-race(tm) pairing running for office and have a group of shadowy libertarians running things in the background. This was done quite effectively in South Africa for ten years with the SA Commy Party dictating policy and our then president acting like a sock puppet. The idea is to have candidates with appealing looks and sexy voices telling you what you want to hear and leaving the actual work to the “philosophers”. [Practically, such a conspiracy can’t work, b/c democracy prevents a proper application of libertarian. constitutional principles.]