Establishment Right presidential field shaping up as a joke; Americans know it was the corrupt Establishment itself that fumbled country away

From:
GOP Slogan for 2012: Who Lost The Empire?
(The American Conservative) -- by Jack Ross --

...The Republican Primary is already shaping up to be an unsightly mess with possibly as many as 14 candidates in the first debate, assuming that’s in May or June. Trying to handicap at this stage is therefore the height of folly, but really it doesn’t matter, because the major theme of the campaign has already emerged: “Obama surrendered to Islamofascism!” Because even the right already knows how this movie will end, with the Fifth Fleet leaving the Gulf with its tail between its legs and Israel forced to negotiate one man-one vote, the hunt for the enemy within has already begun in earnest.

I agree that in all likelihood this apocalypticism will fall flat in a general election and ensure Obama an easy re-election, but that doesn’t mean things won’t get very, very, ugly — recall that Nixon’s landslide in ’72 nevertheless took place in a toxic political environment.

It is most amusing however to witness the desperation with which the neocons are confronting the situation. John Podhoretz and various B-listers are panicking at the sight of such a weak Republican field, and their rhetoric eerily recalls the Democrats in 2003 and 2004, in what was widely labeled “Bush Derangement Syndrome”. But while the Democrats’ derangement (as opposed to the principled leftists) was about precious little more than who would appoint the successor to Sandra Day O’Connor, the neocons see their whole world collapsing around them. Which, naturally, leads Bill Kristol to remind us that he is one of only six people who still thinks American entry into World War I was a good idea.

Obama is nothing more than the object of blame for the larger forces bringing about the fall of the American empire, and of Israel as a Jewish state, of which he has little to no agency — I have always insisted on this point to opponents of the empire as well as with respect to the neocons. In the end it makes no difference, except perhaps at the margins on Election Night, whether the bearer of these slings is a lightweight windbag like Romney or Pawlenty, a genuine whack-job like Palin or Gingrich, or a true believer like Santorum or John Bolton...MORE...LINK
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Chris Moore comments:

Who lost the Empire? The better question is WHAT lost the Empire? Here’s my back-of-the-envelope list:

The Worst Generation, the neocon/neolib Establishment, ideological Zionism, ideological Globalism, economic Keynesianism, statist-corporatist proto-fascism and war-profiteering, corrupt Wall Street banksters, the Grifter Class comprised of mainstream media, bankers, lawyers, government unions, economic bubble-inflating stock/mortgage brokers, and various and sunder other confidence men, swindlers, and slick charlatan politician, including the likes of Bush and Obama and the self-serving ilk that supported them...

As we’re rapidly approaching rock bottom and the corrupt American Ancien Régime begins getting swept away, the next question becomes: where do we go from here?