The gathering storm

This could turn out to be the longest election cycle in US History...at least in the way it makes the country feel. The increasingly disgruntled GOP seems determined to champion a(nother?) high functioning moron for their next Presidential candidate. At least with Bush we had the nefarious genius of Dick Cheney pulling the strings but who would be Palin's puppetmaster? This is a great New York Times article about where the GOP is heading.