How screwed are we in November?

Okay...let's say the unthinkable happens in November. I think I've quantified things, like that "Pain Scale" they have now in the doctor's office. Enjoy!

If the pundits are right about who's got a shot at being elected, blue, and that's the best case scenario.

Screwed unless McCain gets in.

Then you'll only be slightly screwed.

i'm a fan of the lesser evil this year

We're humped no matter who gets in.

I, for one, am sick and tired of having to vote for the lesser of two evils. I want someone I can really back and feel good about voting for.

We're screwed like a tied up goat.

If I have to listen to 4 years of Kirk1assm pissing his pants, and mewling, and sniveling about Hillary, I'm probably gonna snap, and have to skeletonize him with a set of vegetable decorating knives.

That ship has sailed.

Why does everyone go on about how great Reagan was?

Until he came to office we only had a national debt of about 1 trillion, and when he left it was up to 2.5 trillion.

He was the gipper, as in he gipped this country.

Remember that certain something that you couldn't quite put your finger on about Obama?

Reagan had it. We can start with that.

Yellow if we have a conservative congress no latter than 2010, Blue otherwise.

It's called winning the Cold War. He used our economic might to bankrupt the Soviets and force an end to their empire. Worked pretty well too.

May want to study your history a bit there champ.
If that's the only yardstick you want to measure that man with, then you truly are hopeless as a political pundit.

Because congress controlled the purse strings. The Reagan (actually Kemp/Roth) tax cuts flooded the capital with revenue and the Dem congress went stone blind crazy spending it...and Reagan had to trade that off for the necessary funds to rebuild the defense capabilities that the Dems in the 70's had tried so hard to destroy.

In just the same way that Clinton gets credit for a balanced budget when, in reality, the GOP congress shoved it down his throat, likewise Reagan get's blamed for deficit spending that the Dem Congress forced on him as a pay-off for giving him the defense spending he wanted.

Plus, by the way, debt growth is exponential so if you are not actively reducing it, the compounding effect kicks your ass eventually.

Reagan took over a nation with an economy headed for the cliff, a defense infrastructure in utter shambles, and a trillion dollar deficit, and fixed two of the three problems in extraordinary fashion.

No one short of God himself could have fixed all three with a hostile Congress.

Your only hope is to adjust what makes you feel good.

A longer stroke on his fucking machine maybe?

What Reagan had was a staunch belief that Barnum was right. And, man, you guys are still under his spell.

I hope he gets hit on the head with a frying pan and turns into a Republican.
He'd get the biggest share of the popular vote in history IMO.
He does seem to be a good leader.

Maybe he secretly wants Hillary to be elected, and that her tenure will be a disaster. Then he switches parties to become the anti-Hillary in 2012.

I need to e-mail him about this idea.

*sigh*

Ronaldus Maximus speaks to CPAC - March 1, 1975 (excerpted for leangth)

And so it shall be in November, John.

As it was in 2006.

As will McCain, whatever lies he tells at CPAC tomorrow.

Probably not as true overall now as it was then, but still there's a lot of rank and file Dems who wouldn't support their leadership if they were really paying attention to what they stood for.

Still the king baby, still the king.

TLDR.

Yeah he's dead though.

Excuse me if I'm not weeping that the man who believes in nothing can't grasp or understand the praise of a man of vision.

Show me the man who puts forth a vision YOU believe in so we can compare notes....or forgive me if I disregard your criticism.

Quite the contrary.

I'm saying the cult of the strong man is subservient, and weak, and an insult to the self, and it's the self one should rely on, not surrogating one's ego over to hero worship.

That way lies masochism, which inevitably encourages sadism, and that way lies slavery.

x infinity.

So that's why your sex life is so bor....oh...wait.

You know I don't make cracks about your sex life, but...come on man. That one's slow and right over the plate.

No. You'll still be wholly screwed by a liberal...just in conservative drag.

Go kneel to your cosmic dictator, and then preach of freedom.

Such bitterness. You guys have had damn near eight years, and you couldn't get it right.

We couldn't get it right because the GOP is not a conservative party anymore, and frankly neither is Bush on anything that counts.