RedState’s effort to identify the quislings who are out to destroy Sarah Palin is gaining steam, and it’s starting to splatter on people too close to the Destroy Palin effort.

The Boston Herald on Saturday carried a story entitled “Mitt Romney: ‘I’m No Backstabber.’” While there’s some suspicion of Romney, and some of us believe he’s not above preemptively sliming a likely opponent for the 2012 nomination, the article does provide incriminating evidence that former Romney spokesman, Kevin Madden, was actively undermining Palin, and by extension the McCain campaign, prior to the election. To quote the Herald article –

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Listening to Mark Steyn on with Hugh Hewitt Thursday afternoon, and he made the point that Barack Obama’s appeal is a cultural one. No longer are our elections about perpetuating the vision of our founders, or about our values, or about what makes America unique in the world. Elections are now all about people’s perceptions of their own wants and desires, and validating those wants and desires by electing the candidates who reflect one’s narrow perspective on the culture.

My sense (which I hope is wrong), is that this election was a generational shift. FDR’s New Deal lasted until 1968 (36 years after Roosevelt was first elected); the Reagan Revolution lasted, arguably, until 2004 (24 years since Reagan was first elected). Both periods of time spanned a generation. Unless Obama is a complete disaster (which he may be), the GOP may be on the outside looking in for a generation, starting now.

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