Losing the Presidential election is a blessing in disguise for the Republicans?

[flintlock]

Re: Losing the Presidential election is a blessing in disguise for the Republicans?

Republican voters may see a strong defense in terms of actual military strength, but I am convinced most Republican politicians also see it in terms of dollars to be made by their cronies. Its seperating the actual defense value from the dollar motive that is up for debate. Im not convinced the actual defense of US interests are at stake if modest cuts are made.

[lakedaemonian]

Re: Losing the Presidential election is a blessing in disguise for the Republicans?

Meh.....

2016 will be a bit of 8 year Yin and 8 year Yang.

Sure there will be blame on both sides to the other, but a Republican loss in 2012 no longer guarantees a "See? I told you so? It's Bush/Republicans to blame all over again in 2016."

For me American politics isn't even a decent soap opera theatre anymore......it's been reduced to schlocky professional wrestling entertainment without any semblance of being based on reality.

It has truly become a joke.

My only hope is that the next 4 years of pain fall into a "sweet spot".

Too little pain felt by the average voter and the status quo will continue for another 4 years.

Too much pain felt by the average voter and we risk seeing a malignant populist promising everything....and voters believing it and willing to sell out their country to make the pain stop.....but instead of cheap credit heroin it maybe comes in the form of a convenient externalized threat.

My hope is that the average person in the US really isn't borderline retarded and is willing to seize control of their corrupt political process and set a new course.

And I think that will depend on how consumer/constituent pain thresholds are managed.

I'm hoping for capitulation, common sense, and sanity prevailing.........over artificially induced and irrational fear.

I still hold out hope that the internet will be the platform by which the American people can take back their country's political process sensibly.

Rather than a political party, I'm thinking a political movement....something akin to a digitial Spanish Inquisition or McCarthy Hearings.

If you accept special interest campaign funding then you should be blackballed as a corrupt traitor to your country.

Maybe the likes of opensecrets.org can rebrand themselves to put together the political equivalent of a registered sex offenders website and put together webisodes of "To Catch a Political Predator".

In the end I see neither party changing....unless some sort of forcing function compels them to change....and I seriously doubt it would be a 3rd party.

Maybe someone ring up Ross Perot, tell the old geezer he was totally right....and that if he's a true patriot he will donate all his moneys to imploding the two major parties.......or better yet....purging them of their special interest campaign finance addiction.