For us Younger Boomers the Seventies were not a great time, when it came to trying to find jobs and get started in life. Plus, an appeasing President in the face of an overt act of war is still burned in our memories. We are still at war with Iran, but some idiots didn’t get the memo.

Younger boomer myself, joined the military back in ’77 (still in now, some 30+ years later). Was also a Democrat, but back then the party had some honorable folks in government–no longer. Agree with your comment above, Carter drove me to vote Republican for the first time in ’80. But my point is that most folks under 35 don’t remember or know anything about the Iran hostages, Carter, misery index etc. Guess who’s voting for Obama?

Have no doubts he’ll screw up the country like liberals always do (CRA, ACORN, credit crisis going on right now). But a couple of generations later, no one will remember, and the next messiah will arise.

History doeth repeat itself.

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You *really* think the media would balk at that one?

And you don’t even need the fairness doctrine. Just use Commercial Speech. Commercial Speech is about getting you to favor a certain company. Republican television ads are about them getting into congress to favour certain companies. Thus Republican advertising that is unfair or deceptive, as adjudicated by the stakeholders does not merit total protection.

A repeat of the Carter years would be a blessing in comparison.

I worry that I am sounding paranoid, but this guy scares the living beejeezus out of me.

Why only a generation or two? If the Left screws the pooch on the economy and allows Muslim terrorists or Iran to anally ream us and destroy Israel, the mess will be there for all to see. In the journalistic record and burned into the memories of everyone who can comprehend what is happening.

I was on the Left in 1980 when most of my classmates at UNH voted for Ronald Reagan. It took awhile for me to find my way out of socialist thought – out to 1987. But I did observe what was happening earlier and the lesson registered once my template had changed. For us Younger Boomers the Seventies were not a great time, when it came to trying to find jobs and get started in life. Plus, an appeasing President in the face of an overt act of war is still burned in our memories. We are still at war with Iran, but some idiots didn’t get the memo.

how about that and a crisis provided by any one of a dozen places or groups who have backed obama, and then suspending the constitution just for a little while. then all those laws the dems have been passing that are not enforceaable (like the language laws), suddenly become enforceable, just for a while.

not like it hasnt been done before.

Hate to say this, as I agree with you up to the last paragraph, but the UK is far more socialist than we are–and they had Neville Chamberlin. They didn’t learn, and we aren’t gonna learn, at least for the long haul. Good news is, we’ll prolly learn for a generation or two, how liberals truly screw up everything they do.

But you’re spot on in one regard, IT’S GONNA BE PAINFUL!

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In the long run it might serve the nation well, for generations to come, if the Left’s moment has arrived so that the inevitable screw up can finally be attributed to their brain-dead economic theories. And that appeasement of dictators and totalitarian movements, whether the 7th century kind of much later, more modern ones, is finally shown to be the bitter fruit that it always is.

Collectively, we deserve the pain we are about to experience. Not all of us contributed to this scenario, but the pain is necessary in order to get the virus beaten and our immune system inoculated.

Do see some silver linings though:

Illegal immigration will cure itself as there’ll be no jobs in the socialist state.

Carter may finally lose the title of worst President ever.

A 1994 revival in 2010 after a couple of years of Obama Nation forces the sheeple to wake up and go “Where are the adults in Congress?”

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However, I suspect the record of the 1994 USSC was approximately what it is now – 5 / 4 splits with O’Connor being a swing vote at that time, so the concern regarding the USSC now may be about what it was then.

You do have a point though on the filibuster proof majority issue if the democrats take control in the Senate.

That would be a huge difference between the Carter era and the beginning of the Clinton era.

Oh, and I’m jazzed that neo-neocon actually responded to one of my comments (yippee!)!