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Before Eliot Spitzer went all Rachel Maddow on him last week, Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) was saying that he saw the future of America rising with the governors, not the president or Congress.


But apoplexy set in with the host before Perry could advance his thesis. He did manage to get out the radically old idea that the states should be allowed to manage their own Social Security. Unquestionably he is right. But what is more important in this election cycle than whether old-school conservatives or new-school win the congressional debate on earmarks is whether the 600-plus newly elected conservatives in the states will find a working model for Perry’s thesis. Like all theses, to become reality this one needs a place to begin and an avatar. The place should be Alaska and the avatar should be Joe Miller of Alaska. Miller should bring these ideas forward, possibly as a third party: a Federalist Party candidate for president in 2012. The scorn poured upon Sarah Palin by the MSM had a reverse effect; it raised her to national prominence. The strange and unlikely Murkowski contention has done the same for Miller.

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