I think Obama is going to be Centrist on many matters. He may go hard Left on some matters, but as long as it isn’t Diane Feinstein II Time for taking away gun rights, or shoving the black grievance or gay agenda down other peoples throats – the only folks that will be spectacularly upset will be those on the Wall Street CEO – loving, backwoods Bible clan, hard Right.
It’s the economy, the economy, the economy. Jobs and finances. Energy prices..And affordable health care.
The risk of a few Americans killed by Terrahist Evildoers is well down on most American’s lists of priorities and concerns.
People don’t want new wars of Neocon adventure, they don’t care about chickenshit new scandals or 8-year old ones about somebody implimenting Bubba’s pardon policy. They don’t trust Wall Street, the globalists, and free traders anymore and don’t see 8 more years of tax cuts for the well-off as a solution to anything. They want a President who will deal with the world rather than treat it as the enemy, with the exception of the Israeli Right and a handful of corrupt Muslims they put in power. The red meat issues parrotted by their new “ordinary people” prizes like the ill-educated Sarah Palin and Joe the Plumber only resonated with 25-30% of voters.
Banning all abortion? Remember Terri Schiavo! Saint John McCain’s suffering? A flag burning Amendment? Refusing to alter Cuba relations? More capital punishment for more offenses? Calling Nixon’s, now Obama’s plan to find a way to give the 1/6th of Americans without health insurance, hope – “A Communist Plot”???? Big yawns…Republicans did little or nothing to change those problems giving rise to those issues for the better, in the years they had most of the political power..
Republicans will have to watch out for appearing to dwell only on the trivial side stuff, being constantly intransigent and angry. Figure out if they will be trying to return to being a national Party with good prospects in 50 States – or become a regional Party destined to be out of power or dwindle even further to dissolution into 2 or more new parties centered around religious fundamentalism and libertarianism. To be “pure” tool of the Religious Right with chances in only 7-8 Southern States and small Rocky Mountain ones, plus Alaska..
Save their ammo for the truly important stuff where they can honestly stand on core principles again…Once, after Hastert, DeLay, Newt, Stevens, and Bush II screwing the old principles up…they figure what those core principles are…
