Circular Firing Squad Update

Well, the Rats are leaving the sinking ship.

It makes me smile deep down inside, but I'm starting to wonder if I should feel so happy.

Kevin Drum sort of confers.

I don't know if it is really a good thing for the Republicans to completely fall into utter disarray. Remember what happened the last time? Roosevelt ushers them to the Outer Darkness, and they start their comeback behind Goldwater. Now, by today's standard, Goldwater is actually a pretty reasonable conservative. But compared to his era, whoa. Richard Hofstadter's description of the '64 convention makes it sound like a conversation among attendees at a Sarah Palin Rally.

And lest you think I overstate my case, the Christianist right is already preparing for the absolute worst (warning this stuff reads like all the worst parts of the Bible).

In a delicious but potentially tragic irony, the Right is falling out over anti-intellectualism. Who'd have guessed, huh? You paint the "elites" (intellectuals) as intrinsically at war with the people, but you didn't think they'd actually believe you, right? Ah, so hard not to laugh.

It's gotten so bad that the McCain campaigns "postmortem" is already underway.

And more and more Republicans are jumping onto the Obama liferaft.

William Weld, former governor of Massachusetts, endorsed Obama. So did Scott McClellan, who DID tell a lot of lies for Bush, Cheney, etc., but providing yet more evidence of the cancer in the GOP.

The big one, though, has to be Reagan's former Solicitor General Charles Fried. Note that Fried cited the Palin pick as the reason for his discontent.

For more on Sarah Palin sinking the Republican ship, see Andrew Sullivan, here.