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dj---you'll notice that the thread is for discussing what happened to the republicans in this election--there's not much about what anyone thinks will happen next, or what they understand obama to be able or likely to do--so there's no real "cockiness" on anyone's part that i can see. instead there is a series of statements about the many ways in which the republicans find themselves boxed in by the turn to the extreme right, the right that in any other country would be clearly and obviously neo-fascist---which enabled the bush administration to get into power. the republicans are being hoisted by their own choices, structural and conjunctural. personally, i find much of populist american conservatism to be not only foul by dangerous and i am glad to see it hit the wall.
but that doesn't say anything about what i might see as happening next, nor anything about my relation to obama, which is not at all what you might think.
the main difference at this point between those who supported obama and those who supported mc-cain is that the former was supported for ALOT of different reasons in part because the language that obama's campaign used ALLOWED FOR THAT.
you cannot look at this ad hoc coalition in the same way that a republican would look at republicans.
it ain't like that.
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spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
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