The author is right. Reminds me of the late seventies. All the GOP whores in DC are doomed but the retaking will require slogging through the primaries one state at a time in 2010. And then the big battle in 2012 for Sarah.
Palin remains skeptical of Republicans. "I would love to promote the party ideals if we're going to live out the ideals and maybe allow other American voters to understand what the principles of the party are," she says. "We've got to be assured we have enough people in the party who will live out those ideals and it's not just rhetoric. Otherwise, I'd be wasting my time. There are a lot of things I would and should be doing."She was right then and she's dead right to be distancing herself further from the mess that is the GOP establishment by moving SarahPAC to Alaska and not being part of that NRSC/NRCC fundraising stuff. She gets it.
BTW, that book I recently read by John O'Sullivan, "The President, the Pope, and the Prime Minister: Three Who Changed the World" draws some eerie parallels to the late '70s period that you mentioned. Very similar times. Check it out if you have the time.