[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]
SK: I think an Obama 2nd term would be the best thing to happen to the GOP and not for the reasons you might imagine. The GOP has been in the wilderness for a while now and there is a war going on for the soul of the party. Obama being re-elected would force the party to confront the elements that have radicalized it and drive them back to the fringe, where they belong.
I think there would be something of a reckoning on the Dem side as well, and largely for the same reasons. We could return to those working coalitions of the past and actually get some friggin’ work done on Capitol Hill.
Definitely gonna be an interesting year, anyway you cut it.[/quote]
I’ll be really surprised if an Obama re-election accomplishes what you hope it will. I suspect the GOP will continue to double down, despite what they might learn. Grover Norquist isn’t going anywhere. And I doubt they will eliminate the religous right influence. They will never figure out that eliminating women’s right to privacy does not create jobs. I could be wrong. I hope I am.
I kinda disagree with you on the Dem side. Republican voters elected dozens from the fringe. Dems never did that. There were three in the last congress that I thought were liberal across the board. All three are gone. One lost, one chose not to run in 2010 and the other one flashed his namesake. Bernie Sanders is it, and he’s not even a Democrat. If Bob Filner ever said anything, I might include him. (I may be forgetting someone. But that’s how slim the pickings are.) Will Rogers was right with what he said about the Democrats almost 80 years ago.
