I think the Republican party is completely splintered on this issue. The real hard-core types who support someone like Palin (the neocons who see another potential puppet) believe that they weren't conservative ENOUGH (insert eyes hitting screen). They don't seem to realize that all those young people who voted in this election have grown up in a multicultural US and that the values of the old GOP have no resonance outside the South. I actually see an enormous catfight erupting. Because the neocons wants to back someone like her and those in the GOP with some brains are going to have to craft a policy that doesn't marginalize them to being the party of the south--and ONLY the south. It will be an interesting battle to see what shakes out. Because, regardless, the GOP needs to do some serious soul-searching. Beyond the Obama win, their bedrock philosophy has resulted in an economic disaster of unbelievable proportions (and from I've read this is only the beginning) and a stalemate in the Middle East. I wonder how in the hell Karl Rove wakes up in the morning and looks at himself in the mirror.