in a way, d, it might be a good thing as i think it will truly froce a re-examination of who the parties are and what they stand for. i'll even let you in on something that will probably show me as out in the yard barking at the moon crazy. i think that a second bush administration would look nothing like the first and they've admitted as much in interviews over the last year. if he gets in, he can't go any further and will no longer be totally obliged to those interests.
he went right this election cycle because he saw that his "uniter" talk last time turned off the right and he had to depend on the vagaries of the courts. if nothing else, bush learns from his mistakes. when he lost the congressional race in '78 he swore he wouldn't be "out good ol' boyed" again and once he sobered up he wasn't. in '99 he said that one of the lessons he learned was that you have to have a base. well, in 2000 he ran against his base and we saw the results.
this year, he took it to heart and ran a campaign that stoked the right to the gills. but if he's re-elected, what more can he accomplish with more pandering to the right? nuttin'. would he owe them? probably. but would he feel the ned to govern from the right as much? i don't think so. i think that a 2nd bush administration will be far more accomodating and less mean spirited. congress, on the other hand, fuhgeddaboudit. republicans are still seething over 40 years of domination by the dems and the last decade hasn't done much to alleviate those feelings, even as they've run roughshod over them.
the us vs. them mentality is just as bad on the left, d. i mean you'd be hard pressed to find a baseball team of folks here who'd admit that republicans contribute anything to society at all. and that's just here. michael moore calls republicans hatriots. what i do think is that you'll hear a lot more about the issues that the losing side cares about if that losing side is the left. whether that translates into action at the executive level, i don't know. but i just think that the 2nd administration would be different, if not better.
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