The alternative is also known as stupidity on steroids.”
No, actually, electing a conventional Republican like Mitt Romney or Tim Pawlenty would be stupidity on steroids. The temple is coming down around our ears. If we can't have a President that might improve our situation, then the least bad option is to have a Dem, any Dem including Obama, in the White House. A clueless Republican coming to office just in time to take the blame for all the damage done by 100 years of progressive insanity could easily make the restoration of constitutional limited government impossible for generations. If we are going to have Utopian, progressive government then we need to make sure that it is firmly associated in the public mind with the Democrat Party so that we can offer the voters a genuine alternative.
It would be nice to turn Obama out of the White House in 2013, but it is absolutely essential to rebrand the Republican Party and make it consistently conservative. That is the first and most important step toward reclaiming our country. Of all the potential Republican contenders, only Sarah Palin seems positioned to move the Party toward where it needs to go. The progressive Republican tradition that coughed up Hoover, Landon, Wilke, Dewey (twice), Eisenhower, Nixon(twice), Ford, Bush (both of them), Dole and McCain is at a dead end. Only Sarah can bury it.
If the progs beat her in the primaries and nominate yet another of their own, I'm staying home and I'll hope for a Dem victory. To do otherwise would be steroidally stupid.
Only Sarah, only Sarah, only Sarah - sounds more like a worship service than an intellectual argument. Just saying.
I don't want nor need a savior. I've got one of those already. But, it sure would be nice to have a Republican nominee who has negative approvals below 60% - you know, for winning and all that.