The Axis of the Obsessed and Deranged - by Frank Rich ...The leaders embraced by the new grass roots right are a different slate entirely: Glenn Beck, Ron Paul and Sarah Palin. Simple math dictates that none of this trio can be elected president.
As George F. Will recently pointed out <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/17/AR20100\ 21703507.html> , Palin will not even be the G.O.P. nominee "unless the party wants to lose at least 44 states" (as it did in Barry Goldwater's 1964 Waterloo). But these leaders do have a consistent ideology, and that ideology plays to the lock-and-load nutcases out there, not just to the peaceable (if riled up) populist conservatives also attracted to Tea Partyism. This ideology is far more troubling than the boilerplate corporate conservatism and knee-jerk obstructionism of the anti-Obama G.O.P. Congressional minority... Read full article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/opinion/28rich.html
