"OK, this may be a little hard to follow, but

stick with me; it'll all become clearer at the

end. Yes, the Republican Party is a disaster;

it's ideology has become nihilistic. But if

enough people read my columns in the New

York Times and watch me hobnob with Mark

Shields on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer,

I'll be able to lead my party and the American

people on the long and winding Nietzchean

road beyond nihilism."