A Bright, Bright GOP Future

You probably knew things were bad for the Republican Party as an organization and as a brand, but you probably don't know how bad until you read about the party's future from some GOP blogger called Middlebury Republican.  Middlebury Republican sees some GOP heroes out there on the scene:

One thing that reading Grand New Party did make me think about
is the future of both American political parties. Despite the
conventional wisdom that the Republican Party is in trouble, one thing
that we do that I believe the Democrats are lacking right now is a
leadership foundation upon which we can build for the future. It is
this foundation, I believe, that is going to lead to a Republican
resurgence with the next decade. ...

But it is in gubernatorial politics that Republicans future may lay....  Governor Matt Blunt of Missouri is a decorated Navy veteran and highly
successful governor who has earned the nation's highest rating from the
libertarian Cato Institute, and is well regarded for his successful
work to reduce the size of the state's government...

To have these...young leaders, each moving forward with a clear
united conservative vision for the country, is something that happens
once in a generation. And for all the stories that are written about
the Democratic Party's young power, they don't have this. In today's
closely divided political environment, that may be all the difference.

This guy must've gleaned everything he knows about our illustrious governor from the eight-minute infomerical on Matty's repurposed campaign website.

Matt Blunt is going to be a keystone of "a Republican resurgence in the next decade" despite his having been chased from office after his first term as governor, despite having his administration's principle-free ethics targeted by fellow members of his own party who wish to succeed him and despite existing now largely as the subject of a constant murmur of speculation about when the next big scandal will hit.

If this is Middlebury Republican's concept of a "leadership foundation" then I count as fortunate any Party which, like the Democrats in his view, doesn't have such a foundation.

Considering that even the candidate whom Blunt (privately) supports in the GOP gubernatorial primary has thus far opted against having the Governor make his endorsement public, it is hard to imagine that Blunt is someone around whom Republicans can "build their future."  Or perhaps Middlebury is right, and even a bruised melon like Matt Blunt is the best that national GOPers have to pick from the bin.  Neither scenario portends the happy future that the blogger tries to conjure.