As I tried to restate it: The left wants him to win as a left candidate. I assume that will result in his going down in flames but it is possible they do not. At the time of the 92 campaign, the left was letting Clinton run as a “New Democrat.” This time they think they have polarized the electorate enough to elect a left candidate on a left platform that will form a left mandate to quickly jam through another New Deal — call it a global war on warming and racism.

If Obama runs to the center and wins he may well stay there, as Bill Clinton pretty much did (they thought they had the perfect stealth lefty in Bill Clinton).

I think a moderate Obama who governs with the use of Republicans to check the ambitions of the left Democrats would be their nightmare. That would be an attractive option to a pragmatic politician — and a pragmatic Obama could move African Americans out of the left camp of the Democratic Party. I don’t see that as likely since I think Obama is a sincere leftist. But much of the left itself does not seem so sure. And even agree he might be an insincere leftist. Perhaps they view him as a nice guy they can use but who is politically unsound (from their point of view) and, by golly, he might be using them. Hence their howl over his FISA vote, a politically sound decision on his part as well as a practical one for someone who might be President (with the job of heading off terrorist attacks). Remember, Bill Clinton executed a mentally handicapped prisoner. He had to do it to get elected and the left pretty much shut up.

So I think they would like to see a truly backsliding Obama go down in flames because they don’t trust him anymore than I do. I could be projecting, of course.

As for George Soros: I thought he wanted to be Caesar. That would take an amendment to the Constitution. How much are those going for?