"POTENTIALLY RUINOUS " ? You can say that about just about anything.
Consequences is plural...hence it should have been followed by " are ", not " is ".
Your short term memory giving you problems ? Clinton in '92, Clinton in '96 ring any bells ? Staying home and/or voting for a fringer really, really, REALLY " taught " the GOP a lesson...didn't it?
And you imagine that you understand politics? LOL