Bill Whittle, Sarah Palin, and the GOP

"For the first time, I feel like we deserve to win more than they deserve to lose."

Bill Whittle, the outstanding essayist of Eject! Eject! Eject! has spread his magic to, as he describes it, "the house that Buckley built."

He lays out the logic and feeling of many conservatives, writing eloquently, what we can barely express. Some snippets:

When John McCain was sewing up the nomination in the early spring, I spent a lot of time in many comment sections defending him in as many ways as I knew how...

Many conservatives were arguing that it would be better to sit this one out, and let the country go to hell, so that we could send the Republican party a message and re-emerge from the ashes in 2012 with “the next Reagan.” I pointed out that there were two problems with this theory:

First, you may not like the fact that Grandma smokes in bed, and you may indeed want to get her attention. But if that message consists of letting her set the bed, the house and the grandchildren on fire, perhaps there was a better way to “send a message.”

And so — prior to this week — all we had was a grim determination to vote against a dangerous, socialized vision of the future. We were portrayed — largely accurately — as old, tired, out-of-touch, out of ideas, out of candidates . . . too white, too male, too square. It doesn’t matter how true or false that caricature was. That was the narrative, and there was enough of it that fit.

And then the earthquake came.


Go read the rest. And check out his incredible essays. Buy the book.