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Originally Posted by Mizzou B-ball fan
From a party perspective, I think it's becoming painfully obvious that whoever wins this race will be a 'one and done' president.
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I disagree. If Obama wins (still a big IF), then I think that he has the potential to win another election. If he runs the country like he has run the campaign, we might be seeing a re-election along the lines of Regan in 84 or Clinton in 92.
I also think that, if Obama wins, the GOP might need an election cycle or two to hash out its internal civil war. A lot of Republicans (like most of the GOP-leaning posters in this thread) are what I call "good" Republicans--you guys are focused on small government, and individual liberty, and personal responsibility--the traditional ideals of conservatism, in other words. Government should provide a hand-up and not a hand-out and all that.
But a lot of Republicans are in the party because they beleive that if the government obtains credible information that a man has touched another man's penis in a sexual manner, then the police should have the right to swear out a warrant against that man, break into his house, drag him out of his bedroom, throw him into the back of a police car and, upon proving to a jury that he did engage in sodomy, lock him in a cage. These people also want the federal government, to the extent permissible, to mandate the teaching of Biblical creationism instead of evolution in local schools. Or, as the GOP platform was recently amended to hold, they don't want to stop at simply barring federal funds for stem cell research--they want to make private industry engaging in such research a crime.
If my tone does not make it clear, I really hope that you guys win whatever civil war the GOP does end up having. But, more immediately, I think that this civil war, if it does happen, will make it very hard for the GOP to win national elections until it is resolved.