[Night Hides Not]

I’d say 2010 and 2012 should be good years for the GOP and conservatives, but I’m reluctant to make any prediction too far into the future.

Hard to argue with that. Pubbies better deliver on what the voters want, or their a$$es will be next. IMHO, there are millions of over-50 voters that don't want to leave our kids and grandkids with a ruinous federal debt. By and large, those are the Tea Partiers.

[Ted Grant]

IMHO, there are millions of over-50 voters that don't want to leave our kids and grandkids with a ruinous federal debt.

I don't buy that. Those same over 50s voters never had a problem with the debt before. It has to be something else. Whatever it is, it probably has more to do with self interest than it does some type of principled concern for future generations (a concern that has never really motivated them before now).

It's more likely rooted in self interest, whatever that may be.