When you're lost in the wilderness...
From Fred at Rantburg:
...and in 1996 the Pubs took Congress away from them because the Dems had become not only intellectually bankrupt, but too arrogant to even bother hiding their corruption.
The Pubs thereupon began acting remarkably like Dems for the next ten years, until they got dumped.
This left the body politic in the peculiar position of having a government run by reviled machine politicians and blatant demagogues -- remember that 13 percent approval rating -- while the Party of Ideas was reviled for whatcha might call "taking a wide stance" on the issues while it boodled.
The rest of us, who weren't office holders, found ourselves actually trying not to pay attention to politix as the housing bubble swelled and burst and gas prices went through the roof. The pols all tried to sound like Ronald Reagan without bothering to act like him or, even more important, to fire the rest of us with his zest and vision. G.W. Bush, bless his heart, had good intentions but, let's face it: he's no Great Communicator. The best Dick Cheney could do was to pot an occasional lawyer, eliciting a golf clap but not really getting the nation fired up.
All of which brings us back to Sarah Palin. When you're lost in the wilderness, it's good to find somebody who's at home there.
Yes. Yes it is. RTWT here and maybe find yourself smiling a little.