Bibi, I wanted to have a little chat, so pull up a chair for a bit. You know, I couldn't help but think of you as I watched the live feed from the Tel Aviv convention center over the Internet following the Likud primaries last night. I just couldn't help but notice how you approached the podium with a look of consternation on your face. I also 
What you saw last night, Bibi, was the return of the Likud to its right-wing-nationalist roots.
couldn't help but notice your uncomfortable body language.
As you stared at the podium of the Likud roster you had to be thinking, "Hey, these are not my guys. Where's my left-center guys like Assaf, Uzi, Yechiel, Tal in the top 20? Oh, at least Meridor showed up at 17. But look at those hardliners in the top positions. And, oy, Feiglin - Feiglin!"
Poor Bibi. At the risk of showing my age, I just couldn't get the lyrics to the '80's song by The Specials, "A Message To You Rudy", out of my head at that point. To wit:
Stop your messing around / Better think of your future / Time you straightened right out / Creating problems in town / Rudy, a message to you.
Now, just replace "Rudy" with "Bibi" and, well, you get the idea.
Bibi, your slanderous attacks on Moshe Feiglin, aided and abetted by most of the media, was something to behold. Yet, despite all of it, Feiglin emerged along with many of the more rightist candidates that he recommended in key top positions on the slate for the next Knesset. You must have loved how the media dubbed it "Feiglin's Likud".
Your moves against Feiglin in the last days before the primaries reeked of panic and the fear-resentment that you have for a man with true leadership qualities and a true sense of Jewish identity and Jewish destiny, something you will never come to. Witness your attempts to change the election rules at the last minute with new voting requirements (which cost Shmuel Sackett the olim vote, despite having well over 10,000 votes) or the continued extending of the voting deadlines. And let's not forget personally calling and forbidding Likud members from attending any Feiglin or Manhigut Yehudit-related functions, as well as informing them whom to vote for - or else. And all this, despite your closest handlers telling you to either stop attacking Feiglin and raising his profile or to finally embrace the man who has had his hand out to you for over a year.
What you saw last night, Bibi, was the return of the Likud to its right-wing-nationalist roots. No doubt that terrifies a man who does not possess an ounce of Likud DNA in his body. You are hellbent on turning the Likud into another Kadima clone because you have this warped notion that you must play to the so-called non-existent "Israeli center", as you believe that was where Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert were successful. Unfortunately, Sharon was successful because he hijacked the ruling Likud government to form Kadima in order to carry out the "disengagement" from Gush Katif that the Likud had voted down. Olmert was Sharon's hand-picked poodle and only won because the electorate was so disgusted at the choices it had that more than 40% stayed home and did not vote. That won't be the case this time, as the natural tendency of Israel is to the Right despite the fact that it is ruled by a leftist elite minority.
Only a strong right-wing-nationalist Likud, with dedicated incorruptible people like Feiglin, can even begin to try and break the stranglehold of that minority and prevent you from playing to the bastions of the Left - a.k.a. the media and the Supreme Court - and carrying out the national suicidal tendencies that you and the current pathetic collection of thugs have promulgated.
No, Bibi, the ticket you see is not because of you. It is in spite of you. Except for Meridor, all your bogus Likud 
Embrace the man who has had his hand out to you for over a year.
choices, like Leiter and Hafetz and Dayan and Brody, were pushed into irrelevancy.
Yet, I see you have another dirty trick up your sleeve aimed at Feiglin and the top rightists. Your own poodle, Ofir Ekunis, who finished in slot 28, will bring a bogus law suit to the Likud court in order to push himself and your other lapdogs into a higher slot at Feiglin's expense. Don't worry, Bibi, you will fail and ultimately, rather than being known as one of the great leaders of Israel that you could have been, you will be consigned to the dustbin of irrelevancy. For someone with your ego, that is a fate worse than death.
As a closing thought, to paraphrase the words of The Specials: Stop your fooling around / Time you straightened right out / Better think of your future / Else you'll wind up in jail / Bibi, A message to you.
What will it be, Bibi? The nation waits, while rolling its collective eyes. We'll talk again, I'm sure.