Intelligent Design - Check
Putting Religion ahead of Science - Check
Wants to Shoehorn Christianity into Government - Check
Anti Pro-Choice - Check
Anti Science - Check
Anti Diplomacy - Check
Anti Stem Cell Research - Check
Putting Idiots in office like a Former Failed Horse Judge & Commissioner - Check
Rednecks - Check
Racists - Check
Anti Gay, yet filled with closet Gays - Check

Yup, it'll be a LOOONG time before I ever even consider Repugs again.

Assuming, arguendo, that your prediction of the trifecta win comes through, don't gloat too soon.  Getting power is almost as hard as holding it.

There are a lot of things that can happen before 2012.  Here are a few things:

1. We pull out of Iraq early and it decends into a genocidal mess, ending up in the hands of Iran, which then controls so much oil, they use it as a topping on ice cream sundaes.  

What will be remembered about Iraq was that we had almost won, thanks to a strategy suggested first by Mc-you-know-who, and somehow someone else managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.  The Dems were hurt for 40 years because of Vietnam. Losing Iraq won't help them keep their new found security credentials.

(Related scenario: the above happens and Obama sends troops back in to stabize, which he has said he would do, during which 4,000 more are killed.  Everyone will say, "Why did we pull out early, only to go back in at the cost of 4,000.  If we had just stayed, the deaths were down to less than Chicago in the summer.  Maybe McCain was right that as long as Americans weren't getting killed it didn't matter how long were were there for.")

2. Obama imposes all his taxes, plus the additional taxes that the House Dems are already talking about.  Small business do, in fact, take a hit.  Combined with increased tax on capital gains and dividends, investment money stagnates, leaving the country with 12% unemployment and depressed markets in all areas that rely on luxury spending - restauarants, dance classes, personal trainers, interior decorators, espresso cafes, live theater, tourism, etc.

(Of course, if Obama is right that increased taxes won't hurt, he will look good. But, as I say, we shall see.)

3. Obama moves into Afghanistan big time, but they continue resistance.  During this time the peace-oriented base of the Dem party starts a Peace Now movement, demanding we get out of Afghanistan.  Obama, who made his strong-on-security creditials urging increasing troops in Afghanistan, now faces the base of his party complaining that we are in a quagmire.  (Remember that word.)  He pulls out before getting bin Laden, like he promised he would, and bin Laden takes over that country again.  (Ooops. Two countries down.)


4. Putin decides that ethnic Russians living in the Baltic states are being mistreated, and he sends in Russian tanks, re-taking the Baltic states.  Obama does not want to go to war with Russia, rather understandably, so he does nothing that reverses that action.

Want some more scenarios?  I could give you a bunch more off the top of my head.  Any of these will make the Dems looks worse that the GOP looks now.

If your boy is good, there is nothing to worry about. However, even the brightest cannot predict the future. When trying social experiments, there are always unpredicable results.

In fact, if he becomre president, I hope none of these happen.  I would rather have a successful Obama than a hurt U.S.

I will wish him luck, but please don't gloat until he retires.

let's just hope that BHO doesn't turn out to be Carter II.

But then again, that gave rise to Reagan I.