Frank Rich sees the GOP resorting to its usual stance when times are tough: be smiley-face conservatives while assuring everyone in the base the hate's still in the right place:
The discredited neocon hacks who have latched on to Palin as a potential ticket back into [...]

They got the technology, they got the new ideas, and 


According to Fox News, 

Dick Cheney's got his daughter out on the corner again:

Drudge:
After announcing "Republicans have the ideas...now we have the tools," Wesley Donehue has announced