Each time America finds itself on the brink of disaster.....

[virtualobserver]

the American people come to their senses and blunt the momentum of the Republicans.

I have watched many irrational Republican surges, and there is always a magical point where I start to believe
that the people are just stupid, and aren't paying attention, and that therefore, we are now "toast".

Every damn time, and always at the exact time that I lose faith in them, they come through with flying colors.

During the rational portion of my life, I have never agreed with Republicans. Until recently, however...it had
never occurred to me that their party might go stark raving mad.

One of the observations that Rachel Maddow made recently was that gaffes that would have scuttled candidacies
in the past, seem to have no negative effect this year.

I agree with that observation in the short term, but I also believe that Americans, busy though they may be, can smell "crazy" from
from a distance, and they can spot "crazy" using their peripheral vision.

If the "likely voter" vs. "registered voter" interpretation by pollsters is correct, it will mean that the American
people will choose to either install or allow a truckload of "crazy' at the highest levels of government, at a time when they
prefer Democratic policies over Republican, and during a very serious economic crisis.

Not only do I not buy this poll induced fantasy, in reality land, I see a Republican party on the verge of splitting in two.
Dr. Rovenstein's monster is storming the GOP castle.

[lunatica]

1. If the 'crazy' element win in this election the Republicans will be destroyed by the next election

If people think Obama and the Democrats have not done enough to fix things imagine how they'll feel after two years of Republicans doing zilch about fixing a damn thing and everything in their power to fuck things up even worse.

[virtualobserver]

2. I agree, but America may also be destroyed. n/t

[rustyd55]

4. we are in trouble

Bush did in 8 years what we have to undo in 2 is impossible. Yet they want people to believe its democrats fault.Its sad to see people so shallow that they cant see this.We are in trouble.

[madokie]

10. I don't think we're in trouble

I think the right wing msm is lying to us about everything and I don't see Americans as a whole as stupid or ignorant of facts.

Eight years ago the msm here in ok was telling me that right wing steve largent was going to be my next governor, ask Governor Henry how that turned out when you get a chance, k

[Tesha]

3. The problem is that you can die from chronic inflammation just as easily as from a heart attack.

We are constantly "just at the brink" of collapse, brought on
by the infection of Republicanism; so far, the best the Demo-
crats have managed in the past thirty or so years was to just
barely manage to pull us back from the absolute brink. The
fact that we haven't actually died of this continuous, on-going,
recurring infection doesn't mean we aren't dying.

We are.

Tesha

[virtualobserver]

8. the pendulum is swinging back

I hope that it does so in time to save us.

[Tesha]

12. But my point remains.

Every time the pendulum "swings back" even a little in our
direction, it is rapidly pushed back to the Right again and
pushed hard.

It's been thirty years since the Reagan Revolution began
and our long slog began that transformed our society away
from one built for the people and into a society built exclusively
to service the rich. Absent a revolution complete with guillotines,
it's going to take at least thirty years of the pendulum loitering
"over on the left side" before our society is even centered again,
let alone turned into the Progressive democracy we deserve.

Tesha

[virtualobserver]

14. progress is painful in a world filled with Repubs

I long for that left loitering pendulum.

[Catshrink]

5. A war breaks out?

[GoCubsGo]

6. Except that they really don't come to their senses

If they did, the GOP would have long ago been reduced to a minor party, like the New American Whig Party or the America First Party. You'd think the American people would have learned from Hoover, his fellow robber barons, and their Great Depression, but they didn't. And, Nixon. But, they didn't. Reagan is still a big hero among a large chunk of the population, even though he's a major source of so much of today's pain and suffering. And, they went back and elected the idiot son of an asshole to whom they wouldn't give a second term--in less than 10 years after dumping the father. Then, they gave the moronic Junior TWO terms, during which he and the party have pretty much destroyed this country inside and out. And, here we go again, not even two years later. If the American people had truly "come to their senses" each time these assholes took us to the brink, the republican party would be GONE.

I don't disagree that the republican party is on the verge of splitting in two. It's been that way for a few years, as folks like Lincoln Chaffee and Bob Barr can tell you. But, unfortunately, the GOP are like bed bugs or polio. You think they're gone, but years later and they're back with a vengeance.

[virtualobserver]

7. cynical people leading the Republican Party...

have created a cult within them and then lost control of that cult. If the Repubs split, they will do it in the nastiest fashion (since both factions are nasty), horrifying the nation.

Our problem is that there is a large non-political center that onlu pays attention to politics in times of crisis. Under most circumstances, our various types of glowing screens do not shove the truth in our faces. We have to look for it, and the distracted center avoids that unless their personal life is affected by the economy, or world events.

[WinkyDink]

9. Too many now think that is where we are, and that Obama is the driver.

[virtualobserver]

11. supposedly, but why do Republicans have a lower approval .....

rating than Democrats? I'll find out on Tuesday, but I believe that the polling methodology for races this year is flawed to an extraordinary degree.

[CanonRay]

13. I hope you're right

but I think not only can they smell crazy and see crazy, a whole lot of them are going to vote for crazy. And once crazy is in power, look out below.