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But Tex, we might be experiencing the Bush corollary, if the Republicans can't put up a candidate which the public likes better, even a President which is disliked by a substantial number of voters could be re-elected.

Obama is completely unpalatable, with nothing to attract me to him. So all the Republicans have to do is to come up with anybody of any charm and wit, and they'd win.

But as Mike has aptly identified, the Republicans are bereft of salient ideas which appeal to the public conscience. We have time to recover but I don't see the party doing what it takes. We need to jettison Palin faster than Goat turns to man-made boobs.