I was half rooting for Bush to win following the same logic as Lou, 
worrying that a Gore or Kerry victory would set off the same response from 
the Dems. that Lou predicts as a response to Obama.  I was hoping against 
hope that the idiocy of the Repubs would set off some sort of reaction in 
the streets or even perhaps among the Dems' imaginary grass roots.

Damn it Lou, I hope that you are wrong, even though ....

On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 11:36:25AM -0500, Louis Proyect wrote:
>
> Of course. And what will happen is 4 years of ineffective, centrist 
> bullshit that will make the misery of the American people only 90 percent 
> of what it would be under the Republicans. And in the next election, the 
> Republicans will run a demagogic campaign that promises to fix the mess 
> that the Democrats made. A Republican president will then push politics 30 
> degrees to the right making people just as pissed off as they were under 
> the Democrats. And in 2016 the Democrats will nominate DLC'er Harold Ford 
> who the Nation Magazine will support because he is not as bad as Mitt 
> Romney or whoever. This is like being stuck in a Samuel Beckett play that 
> has no conclusion. 
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