Marc Ambinder prints the schedule for next week’s Republican Governors Association meeting to highlight Sarah Palin’s refusal to disappear, but here’s something more interesting (to me at least):

Thursday, November 13th 10:00 – 11:45 a.m. Plenary Session II: "Looking Toward the Future." Remarks by Governor Sarah Palin. Featured speakers include General Tommy Franks (U.S. Army-Ret.), Rep. Mike Pence, Dr. William Kristol, Governor Tim Pawlenty, Governor Mark Sanford.

No, not that Bill Kristol is billed as "doctor," although, you know, LOL. It’s the presence of Tommy Franks, one of the most disastrous general officers ever. You could fairly call Franks the anti-Petraeus: bone-stupid, uncreative, wedded to misunderstandings about the war, the only man who ever wore a uniform and thought Donald Rumsfeld was a demigod. (You should really check out Franks’ memoir if you think I’m being uncharitable.) For all Dr. Kristol’s talk about how he was right on the war all along, the Weekly Standard sent Fred Barnes, geisha-like, to perform a post-invasion blowjob on the general.

So you wonder if the future Republican Party will embrace Tommy Franks. Because, you know, if they do? Rad. Please, make that man your new national-security surrogate. He’s like Thomas McInerney without a frontal lobe.