“Or at least when we still thought they HAD an A game.”
The Reagan impetus kept them going in the right direction for a while. Then kinder, gentler entropy happened.
In some ways I am kind of excited. We are sort of back where we were in 1979. On the one hand we are more destitute and all of our cushion has been consumed. On the other hand the liberal pipe dream has been attempted and enacted in ways Carter never could. It stands there waiting to be toppled over for a long, long time.
If only people would quit trying to sabotage the opportunity by sticking us with Romney.
“In some ways I am kind of excited. We are sort of back where we were in 1979.”
It is similar. A weak Democrat President, with a bad economy that he’s making worse. A Republican Party dominated by a “moderate” establishment.
The big difference and big problem is that conservatives don’t have a strong champion this time. But at least Newt is a fighter, and that may be the best we are going to get.