The rats will find a way to allow millions of new voters. In addition, the vote buying schemes will put conservatives on the defensive. SHE has many negatives but the rats have huge advantages now. Initially, I think the vote buying schemes will make HER even more popular. Entitlement programs can never be cut. The fruits of some of the schemes (especially energy mandates) will not bear their bitter fruit for 5 to 10 years.
I wish that I could be more optimistic about the rats grip on control if conservatives implode in 2008. I do not think that we should be using 1994 as a model for taking back control.
I don't like it, either, but if Rudy is the nominee, I really don't see another way out of the mess. The Republican Party cannot abandon the social conservatives so completely by nominating someone completely antithetical to their views (at least Romney pays them some lip service). If so, they will go back to the status they had during the New Deal-Great Society days, when the only person we could elect as President was a general who was allowed to win a war. It will take a generation or more to rebuild this party, and the unborn will have been forever abandoned by that point.
What's the sense in voting for the guy with the (R) next to his name, if the brand no longer means anything?