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But Romney's ineptitude will

Anonymous PS — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 19:54:58 +0000

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But Romney's ineptitude will manage to be bad for America even when he loses, because it will serve as one more excuse for the Republican Party to keep ignoring reality.

I've thought this for a while, Doc, but I'm not sure it's true. I think it depends on how successful Obama's second four years are. If they're successful, it will tee up Hillary or whomever follows.

And the economy, of course. If it's still limping along, the Democrats will be in a bad spot in 2016.

Also, the Republicans have one abiding cudgel they can always use: the unsustainability of the growing deficit and the liabilities posed by the entitlement programs which, I heard Bill Gross say yesterday, puts us on the hook for another 40 or so trillion dollars.

Not arguing whether any of this right or wrong factually except to say that these numbers have wide intuitive appeal. They scare people. The Democrats have largely bought into them and not presented an alternative analysis of America's economic "balance sheet," as it were.

IOW, they will have themes that have broad acceptance and won't have to "go right" to win the next election. But if the economy dramatically improves, if the deficit goes down, if Obamacare becomes truly popular, then that's a different story.

I agree with you, Doc. When

Michael Maiello — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 18:09:23 +0000

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I agree with you, Doc. When Romney loses (well, it had better be "when") a good number of Republicans will blame his lack of conservative bona fides. I think this is why the Republicans in Congress won't be any easier to deal with in term two.

Heck, Republicans liked George W. Bush and he won the White House twice for them and the party faithful still doesn't stick up for the guy. They even say that everything bad that happened on his watch happened because he was not conservative enough.

I guess this is an intractable problem with conservative thinking -- the only thing that's ever wrong with anyone is that they're not faithfully conservative enough. No wonder so many of them are willing to believe in creationism.

Amen to this, Doc, and thanks

Ramona — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 17:07:32 +0000

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Amen to this, Doc, and thanks for putting it out there. What's absurd is that half the country is unable or unwilling to recognize how dangerously close to anarchy the Republican party is allowing themselves to venture. When the party works this hard to elect anti-government politicians--paid for with taxpayer money and given lifetime pensions, to boot--we're all in trouble if this trend doesn't end.

We've had a do-nothing congress obstructing every effort to bring us back from the brink throughout Obama's first term; we've had the Koch Brothers and ALEC determining which states will go into receivership under Right Wing governors; we've seen the most bizarre display of presidential candidates from one of the two major parties EVER, with Romney seeming like the most sane.

So, no, it's not funny, and Romney stinks, but really--and I can't believe I'm saying this--it could have been worse. (And probably will be again if this doesn't stop.)