I wish I could agree and that your predictioion would turn out to be accurate. But, alas I fear that you will be shocked by the turn out and by the media's analysis of it. This is timed to occur before the fall elections. The Democrats may well try to make this an election issue for this fall's congressional elections. If the Republicans oppose it, the Democrats will use it to turn out the black vote in spades. And if the Republicans support it, as I unfortunately think Bush and the Congressional Republicans will, it will turn off conservatives who will stay home or vote other conservative third parties.
The Democrats have been fishing for the killer issue for the fall elections. Unfortunately, I think this may be it. I see the Republicans taking the wrong turn and supporting reparations rather than opposing them with clearly stated reasons why. I think it will start with vulnerable R's in Congress and spread from there all the way to the "compassionate conservative". If they do, it is an election loser.
Sad to say, I'm inclined to agree.
How true and the more devisive the more the Democrats Socialists like it.