Carville to GOP: You have a disaster on your hands

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15. I think [i]those[/i] republicans are probably quite pleased with how things are going.

If I'm reading it right, it looks like Rovian politics at its most cunning. The whole twisted circus act is intended to draw a huge but generally apathetic segment of voters into the action. These are the people that listen to (and believe) the crap on right wing radio. They make up a large base of many disenfranchised sub groups, some of which would vote anyway but most of which wouldn't make the effort without a special incentive. The clowns speak to these fringe heads in familiar code. They draw them out from their apathy because someone is now speaking directly to them. As the farce subsides, I expect all of the current crop of moron candidates to fade into the cartoon, but the process will have produced the desired result.

Once we're closer to the primary, I'm expecting a "real" candidate to be pulled out of a hat and held before the country as the rational republican. This leaves the thousands of newly activated fringe heads in the voting pool because they now feel empowered to take part in what they think is a participatory democracy. Their training will force them to vote against any liberal commie Democrat, no matter who it is they have to vote for.

Karl Rove chose Mrs Palin to "stir things up". He needed to get the media's attention because it was obvious that Obama was going to create a landslide of not only votes but popularity for the centrist/leftist cause. Rove's evil genius worked and the six-pack NASCAR world was focused on one thing only, the VP slot.

I expect Jeb or Christie to be a sudden infusion, most likely Jeb, at the end of the first act in the 2012 circus of right wing doom.

They know what they're doing.

As much as I like Carville's humor, I'd be surprised if he didn't see things this way also.