McCain campaign heads into tailspin

With a now widely noted blow-out between the McCain and Palin camps, the Republican presidential campaign is heading into what very much appears to be an unrecoverable tail spin... and the cold, hard ground is coming up fast.

Campaign insiders are pointing to an increasingly off-message and undisciplined Sarah Palin "going rogue" as one source called it -- although elements in the Palin camp defended the VP candidate saying that inappropriate answers to questions from supporters at some events were because the questions were "process questions" -- and the candidate is simply not good at "process questions."

Situation explained. Eh?

Politico, on the other hand, points to word from other Palin insiders that the candidate is, indeed, disregarding instructions from the campaign, particularly the former Bush aides the McCain campaign had assigned to keep her on message and out of trouble.

According to the first source, a senior Republican who is in touch with the Alaskan, "I think she'd like to go more rogue."

According to Politico, a faction of the Republican Party is emerging that sees the largely inarticulate, unread and painfully ignorant former beauty pageant winner turned small town mayor turned Alaska state governor as the future of the party.

More evidence, to be sure, that there is a large and undigestible core of know-nothing crazies forming a lump to the far right side of the party, seeming to ensure a long and painful recovery for the GOP in the aftermath of the neoconservative meltdown.

CNN: Palin's 'going rogue,' McCain aide says

Politico: Palin allies report rising campaign tension