[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]
I’m sure the rhetoric is going to ratchet up even further as Election Day approaches, with idiots from both sides peddling their version of the truth on this board.

I don’t know if you caught Obama on The Tonight Show, but I thought he comported himself well and is smartly using his bully pulpit to disseminate his message. With the craziness on the GOP side, the Republicans are essentially ceding the election to Obama.[/quote]

The adventures in GOP land have been truly mind boggling. There were two candidates that I thought might be competitive in the general, and it’s now down to one, and Romney may not even get the nomination. And if he does, Obama can thank his opponents for testing every bit of op research.

Had I been both prescient and nice, I would have warned the Republican party elite to be careful of what they wish for. Sadly for them, I am neither. They are likely to end up with a candidate that they don’t much like, or a candidate that nobody outside of their base constituency likes. Either way, not a good sign for down ticket support. A slow and consistent uptick in consumer confidence over the next 9 months (that has apparently already started) could make it a landslide.

And I don’t know if that’s good or bad. (But an Obama administration without Tim Geithner would definitely be an improvement.)