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Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 2:39 pm
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Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 4:17 pm
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Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 11:29 pm
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Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 3:38 am
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Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 6:48 am
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Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 7:16 am
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Politically, 1 of 3 things will happen:
1. Conservatives succeed in driving moderates out of the GOP, pushing moderates into the Democratic party, thus ensuring a generation of Democratic dominance in government.
2. Moderates manage to hold on in the GOP, conservatives go off and form their own 3rd party, thus dividing the vote on the right and ensuring a generation of Democratic dominance in government.
3. Moderates and conservatives will somehow manage to find way to coexist within the GOP, and power will transition in government from time to time.
Of course, there is a worst of all world scenario too. We'll call this option 1 + 2: Conservatives succeed in driving moderates out of the GOP, and convince themselves that they still haven't succeeded. So, they continue this eternal and fruitless quest for "conservative purity," all the while drifting further and further right, and shrinking the base of the GOP until the party dissolves out of existence. We are then stuck with a single party state where your only meaningful balance in government comes from the struggle between centrist Democrats and liberal Democrats.
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Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 4:51 pm
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Lord Bitememan Politically, 1 of 3 things will happen: 1. Conservatives succeed in driving moderates out of the GOP, pushing moderates into the Democratic party, thus ensuring a generation of Democratic dominance in government. 2. Moderates manage to hold on in the GOP, conservatives go off and form their own 3rd party, thus dividing the vote on the right and ensuring a generation of Democratic dominance in government. 3. Moderates and conservatives will somehow manage to find way to coexist within the GOP, and power will transition in government from time to time. Of course, there is a worst of all world scenario too. We'll call this option 1 + 2: Conservatives succeed in driving moderates out of the GOP, and convince themselves that they still haven't succeeded. So, they continue this eternal and fruitless quest for "conservative purity," all the while drifting further and further right, and shrinking the base of the GOP until the party dissolves out of existence. We are then stuck with a single party state where your only meaningful balance in government comes from the struggle between centrist Democrats and liberal Democrats.
Quote: then stuck with a single party state where your only meaningful balance in government comes from the struggle between centrist Democrats and liberal Democrats. Hopefully that will never happen.
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Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 5:17 pm
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Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 5:26 pm
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Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 5:33 pm
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Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 9:04 pm
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Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 9:56 pm
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Ruyashie Semiremis America will serve as China's Caddy on the green... or not. Maybe but what if another Ronald Reagan comes along?
neutral I don't know.
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Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 2:11 pm
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Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 9:52 pm
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Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 11:15 pm
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