Well

Well, I guess I should say something today. First off, it's nice to see that Paul Krugman agrees with me about the coming purge in the GOP. It won't help the minority of fundamentalist crazies who are left in control of the party, but James Dobson will finally get his chance, it seems, to run things and bury whatever hope of real power the insane right wing had.

Another thing that has occurred to me is that, given the nature of the lies that have been spread about Obama this go-round, unlike any past Democratic candidate he will actually have the chance to grow his support prior to a re-election bid. My sense is that normally, candidates are most popular just before they are elected to office, and then they experience a decline in support as their partisans become disillusioned and bitter. But, Obama has been smeared so viciously by right wing nutjobs as a secret Muslim, a socialist/communist, a godless destroyer of worlds, that I predict an increase in support for him a few years hence (all else being equal) on the basis that those who harbor inner doubts about his character will be satisfied. I mean, what will they object to when the secret Muslim takeover doesn't happen after Obama takes office? Same for those who openly now question his experience and qualification to be president -- nothing qualifies him more to be president than actually being president.

Perhaps I am giving too much honor and dignity to Obama's detractors -- maybe there is a Bradley Effect, but it is masked by a host of critiques of Obama that range from his tax policies to his character to his inexperience. When it's all said and done, and the United States is better off under Obama than it has been under GW Bush, maybe those people who cannot bring themselves to support him will just finally cop to being racists. And then, maybe they'll do the honorable thing, in this modern age, and kill themselves.