Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann, Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck are the new face of the GOP. Until they get some people who are serious and not hostile to actual intellectualism, they're dead in the water. The GOP needs Lincoln and Milton Friedman now more than ever. A Democratic Party unchecked will do as much damage and run as roughshod over everything and everyone as an unchecked Republican Party did - a good part of the reason we're in the predicament we are at this juncture. The Republicans need to feel comfortable projecting intellectualism rather than pure populism and rage, or they'll be lost forever.
You've obviously never watched Bush's former Secretary of Labor, Elaine Chao. Talk about "spin" . . .