While I tend to agree, Carolyn, to some degree...

I predict that Democrats will have an even weaker voter turnout, with many of their usual supporters staying at home in 2012, because it will become obvious to people that their sole role is to moderate the Republican party, as for each step the GOP takes to the right, the Democrats take a barely smaller step in the same direction. While the two factions of America's single party have mostly swapped seats between the Great Depression and the Civil Rights Era, one thing has never changed - Republicans have always represented the voice of conviction, and in an image driven world, conviction often defeats reason.

If Republicans produce a credible ticket for 2012, Obama and Biden will be kicked out of the white house.

Sometimes, standing for what you believe means standing alone