http://www.usnews.com/blogs/erbe/2008/6/23/barack-obama-serial-flip-flopper.html

~’Change we can count on’ sounds like as good a bumper sticker as I’ve come across in a while.

Depends on what you mean by the “Right”. If you mean the 90′s Contract with America Right then very much – in fact there has *never* been a period where that philosophy has failed to win elections. As of right now with the Republicans in the Toilet and the Dems in the plumbing a small govt strong defense candidate who promotes lower taxes and increasing oil drilling/refinery would sweep the elections in a heart beat (otherwise known as “The Right”).

If by the “Right” you mean Republicans (and this seems to be what you mean) then most likely not. They aren’t really liked and the fact that the Democrats are liked even less will not cause some type of backlash.

Further any individual election tends to be more based on personalities than party. For many a year a Democrat Vs Republican Democrat wins. In the last election cycle Bush vs a Democrat the Democrat won by a large margin. However Bush Vs Kerry and, well, who was president with the popular vote by a fairly large percentage?

As is we have either a strong global warming, anti-defense, huge govt, environmentalist candidate vs a weak global warming, large govt, environmentalist that is at least strong on defense. McCain wins there but not because he is good, but because he isn’t as bad. However since neither is really liked they both can easily sink to the bottom quickly.

Were the Republicans to go back and actually do the Contract With America idea they would do well with both their base *and* the general public. I will never ever understand why after sweeping elections with that message they abandoned it to embrace what the ones they soundly defeated believed in. Yea, I get that the news media harped on it – but hey you freaking killed the competition when they predicted mass failure so why remotely believe them? At some point a conservative party is going to have to come about that realizes that the media is totally against them and just do what wins them elections, not what makes the MsM happy. We have a truly liberal party but do not have a truly conservative – the only time we came close we soundly thumped the liberals and then caved to them complaining about it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R6gcbC9Hz4

This one seems to be making analogies between the movement that formed the Weather Underground, and the crowd that is forming around Obama today.

And if i’m not mistaken, the message, from former underground members, is … dont repeat our misakes.

The more things change the longer it gets.

Gee……ya think? In a FUTURE election? (Well…November IS in the future…)

I was thinking — does anyone think this might cause some backlash accruing benefit to the right? Obama’s really piling on those straws on my camel’s back and it’s sure tempting me to write a check as big as I can afford to either McCain or Republican Party!