No question about it, but just how do you get turnout.
If Obama wins the Dem nod, we will have the same problems that Hillary is having. Everything said about him goes through a racist screen and nothing every gets through the screen.
Our side is demoralized and flat. We have so much division within that we can't organize a response to snot.
McCain sure ain't helping with that, and I see a disaster looming and coming fast like a tornado with twenty cousins.
Losing this election may be the cure, I don't know, but I don't know what else would do it. Nobody is on the same page anymore, and it's difficult to say what page they will all settle on to reform a coalition.
McCain *can't* help that, because McCain is *not* a Reagan Conservative. Disaster is a foregone conclusion. Conservatives will crater the party, because it is the only thing they can do.
Losing this election may be the cure, I don't know, but I don't know what else would do it.
The only way forward, or at least the only way to prevent the disaster you and I know is on the horizon, is to lift up a Reagan Conservative, either by rebelling so forcefully that the Pubbies block McCain at the convention, or by lifting one up via a 3rd party candidacy.
But that cannot win without the moderates, who are not likely to assist, because McCain is their player... So doom is nearly certain.
Nobody is on the same page anymore, and it's difficult to say what page they will all settle on to reform a coalition.
Predictably, it will be a return to Reagan, and a defaming of Baker, or the Republicans will die as a party. The Conservatives will bolt otherwise, and may anyway in the attempt at a third party candidate.