Rather startling the turn around - suddenly Obama has gone from lame duck to ushering in a liberal golden age with the cackling face-lifted Pelosi riding shot gun - all because of the passage of a deeply flawed health care bill by means of an unprecedented abuse of the legislative system and against the will of public opinion. People and pundits are predicting the end of the republican party and the end of America for that matter [well, righties are; lefties can't stop giggling so taken they are with themselves] - all a bit hysterical it seems, no?. True, if Americans do not send a stern message of disapproval to democrats in November that will probably be a bad thing - if only because campaigning against what has happened here should be so easy that if republicans can't pull it off that will be a clear indication that something is very wrong, either with the republican party in particular or the country in general. And granted, the democrats have pursued a far left agenda as if they literally disdained bipartisanship and that could poison the political waters for a generation leading to god knows what aberrations and abominations - the democrats have lowered the bar and pushed through lousy legislation against the public will, what's to stop them from doing it again if they don't pay a price in November? Or, on the other hand, you could see manifestation of the dreaded cascading ping pong effect of idealogical over reactions: Clinton leads to Bush leads to Obama leads to... Palin?
But maybe Sarah can be a new Reagan to Obama's Carter - hard to believe that, very hard, in fact nigh impossible - still, Ronnie too was underestimated, scorned by the left wing MSM and intelligentsia as a light weight - and like Sarah he had a humble way of connecting to a demographic that toils away far beyond the reaches of Obama's honeyed eloquence - and, again like Sarah, he had a simple message: big government weakens America. It's a message that sells, especially if, as with Carter, a foreign policy disaster lends credence to the impression.
