Whatever the result of the 2010 midterm elections, one thing is assured. The national elected government will no more be able to make substantiative progress towards solving any of our collective problems.
Sorry tea partiers, you'll rise to your level of incompetence and true influence, meanwhile undercutting the mainstream Republican party--the result being politically nil.
And before you Dems start snickering, your influence will be diminished under any scenario, when, when, you can't hold your own now--except when it comes to fund raising.
The Repugs have a chance, simply because they won't take over after this election. They'll gain legitimacy without power, the Dems barely holding majorities in both the house and the senate and the presidency while the Repugs get even shriller and more annoying. The resulting gridlock will make a Obama vulnerable in 2012.
Except that he's not. What Obama proved in 2008 was that he was Bill Clinton's election juggernaut equal, and the repugs will have to find a candidate who can realistically go with Obama.
Palin? Pawlenty? Romney? Huckabee? uh who is that guy that won the Value Voters poll?
This would all be amusing in that Will Rogers' sort of way except that we are at a crossroads of economic, ecological, and ethical defeat. And while Christine O'Donnell warms my diabolical heart, her idiocy is no consolation when one mulls over the planet's fate.
That all said, I am getting poked and prodded to have a little more to say as the election nears. Maybe.
--Loosestrife
Sorry tea partiers, you'll rise to your level of incompetence and true influence, meanwhile undercutting the mainstream Republican party--the result being politically nil.
And before you Dems start snickering, your influence will be diminished under any scenario, when, when, you can't hold your own now--except when it comes to fund raising.
The Repugs have a chance, simply because they won't take over after this election. They'll gain legitimacy without power, the Dems barely holding majorities in both the house and the senate and the presidency while the Repugs get even shriller and more annoying. The resulting gridlock will make a Obama vulnerable in 2012.
Except that he's not. What Obama proved in 2008 was that he was Bill Clinton's election juggernaut equal, and the repugs will have to find a candidate who can realistically go with Obama.
Palin? Pawlenty? Romney? Huckabee? uh who is that guy that won the Value Voters poll?
This would all be amusing in that Will Rogers' sort of way except that we are at a crossroads of economic, ecological, and ethical defeat. And while Christine O'Donnell warms my diabolical heart, her idiocy is no consolation when one mulls over the planet's fate.
That all said, I am getting poked and prodded to have a little more to say as the election nears. Maybe.
--Loosestrife
Don't underestimate Romney. He knows more about economics than Obama, and if the economy develops as badly as I fear it will, Obama will have a lot of 'splaining to do, which Romney can do better.