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Well... no Democrat is going to appoint SC justices popular around here. But unless the Democrats are feeling politically suicidal, you are not going to see the sort of embrace of radial black political opinion that helped sink the Democrat party during the "culture wars" of the 1970s and beyond. ----- IMO some readers here need to recalibrate their political reality meters as regards the current state of both parties: Obama and Clinton are not "Marxists" - they are not even "Social Democrats" by the standards of the rest of the world

And the reason the democrats are likely to win big in November is that they are proposing at least partial solutions to problems (such as the specter of Medical Bankruptcy" if you lose your job) that the voters want solved but which most of the Republican Party does not even recognize as a problem.

You can see this in Newt's proposals for a new action plan: not one word about heath care, but instead a proposal to improve the Air Traffic Control system... as if a 50 year old unemployed middle class woman with cancer cares about airport delays while trying to decide if she should pull her daughter out of college, lose the house, on take a chance on forgoing the last half of her radiation treatments.

In this situation sane conservative politicians would be taking about how to insure her while doing the least damage to the economy and the motivation to work, instead the voters hear only why we can't solve the problem, or diversionary discussions of HCSAs and other programs that don't solve it.

And conservatives will get clobbered in November, having forgotton that in a minortiy political position "The best is the enemy of the good".