We just read this piece on RealClearPolitics by Daniel Henninger, Voters Are Desperate for Political Leadership.  

Please read it before you go any futher with us here.

Great Merciful Zeus, that was interesting…and we think spot on. 

For some time we have been telling you how we feel this country is in uncharted waters.  We’ve been working alongside Republicans since June 7th, and don’t see that ending…our permanent loyalty to the Democrat Party, once unassailable, terminated May 31st, 2008 when the DNC’s RBC met in Washington DC (with us protesting in the rain), and took away delegates Hillary Clinton won and gave them to Dr. Utopia.  We remain Democrats because the Clintons are Democrats, but more and more each day we find it difficult to justify what the DNC and the Democrat Party at large does.

The way the DNC behaved in the 2008 campaign, and what it is doing now, has increasingly made us more independent.

If you read the article above, you can’t help seeing that many former lifelong Democrats are now joining the Independent ranks.  Those without the powerful connection to the Clintons that we feel are already calling themselves Independent.  Aside from our loyalty to the Clintons and their loyalists, we are truly Independent ourselves.

We will vote for good Republicans. We will vote against bad Democrats. We would like to see the majority of incumbents booted from office, except for those who are loyal to Hillary Clinton.

In reading Henninger’s take, it really feels tailor made for the rise of Sarah Palin in 2012.  If she successfully paints herself as a rugged Alaskan outsider sent from The Last Frontier, astride a moose in ready-made campaign tee shirt art, to rescue this nation from the dithering incompetence of our current effeminate, weak, apologetic president — a man of broken promises and nonexistant resolve who enjoys kicking Americans in the teeth when they are down, telling them how RAAACIST they are, how wrong they are to want the best lives possible, and how stupid they must be if they don’t drop in astonished awe at his own personal, Nobel Prize-winning AWESOMENESS.

Who on Earth would want four more years of this?

If Republicans had turned out to vote in 2008 instead of boycotting McCain as “not conservative enough”, then we wouldn’t be in this mess.

Hopefully, conservatives, Independents, and us moderate Dems can join together in 2012 to put a stop to this madness.  Like we tried to do in 2008, but where the conservatives thought it was much more important to give their butts quality time with their couches instead of waddling outside to cast ballots in the most important election of our lives.