GOP VP DOA

Immediately after finishing a gloomy assessment of Republican prospects in November, I saw Michelle Malkin's reaction to the news that open-borders Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is now considered the top contender for GOP running-mate:

Can someone please fast-forward to 2012? Please.

Agreed. But if things keep going in the current direction at the current rate, there won't even be a Republican Party by 2012. I couldn't help but think of Dante's inscription at the portal to Hell:

Abandon hope all ye who enter here.

I'm tired of hoping that the Republican Party will ever recover its senses. Conservatives are like a battered wife in an abusive relationship with the GOP, except that we can't even get a restraining order.

Or maybe I'm just depressed.