Then you're ready to so label around half the country?

Provide evidence that "half the country" thinks the president is a socialist and/or fascist who is taking the country towards communism and totalitarianism...

You assume that a majority of the people on the left know about this article or even know who Bonnie Erbe is...

No, I'm assuming that one or two folks on the left have seen the article... certainly enough to elicit a response, particularly since folks like Q&O and Reynolds have seen it. It's hardly hidden. Yet, silencio, from the left. Nada. Nothing. If someone on the right were to have made such a suggestion as little as 6 months ago, you know as well as I the kind of firestorm that would have erupted. Telling, that.

If you really believe that the president is a fascist and/or socialist who is leading us down a path to communism and totalitarianism, you are deranged in your thinking of him and very much deserve the label as it fits perfectly...

Then you're ready to so label around half the country? Be careful in your defensive efforts, that you don't overstep. You see, your bigger problem isn't what I thin, particularly, but what the voters think. And already the polling is suggesting that the democrats are in serious trouble with this guy.

THere's been no outcry against it from anywhere on the left.

You assume that a majority of the people on the left know about this article or even know who Bonnie Erbe is...I will remember to use this same logic whenever any conservative writes something silly that every other conservative doesn't immediately denounce...

Are you sure that's to be your complaint, now?

If you really believe that the president is a fascist and/or socialist who is leading us down a path to communism and totalitarianism, you are deranged in your thinking of him and very much deserve the label as it fits perfectly...

it's interesting to see that you've become infected with the Obama strain...

Amusing... and even fair, if we discount the pattern we've seen over the last eight years of blaming Bush for everything. Are you sure that's to be your complaint, now?

The last time I checked, Bonnie Erbe held no positions of authority in the Obama Administration nor is she a policy adviser of any kind to the president...but hey, if you want to invent, out of whole cloth, some kind of fantasy totalitarianism that will supposedly be laid upon us at some future date, I will gladly continue to mock it

You can certainly do that if you like, but before you do consider this; THere's been no outcry against it from anywhere on the left. And who, just a few short months ago, could have envisioned such a call being issued, without the left having diarrhea all over it? That's as good an indication of direction as you will find in this kind of thing.

The last time I checked, Bonnie Erbe held no positions of authority in the Obama Administration nor is she a policy adviser of any kind to the president...but hey, if you want to invent, out of whole cloth, some kind of fantasy totalitarianism that will supposedly be laid upon us at some future date, I will gladly continue to mock it...by the way, in case you don't realize the irony, you and those of your ilk are acting exactly like those on the left who were foaming at the mouth at the Bush Administration, talking of conspiracies and such....BDS, I believe they were accused of having...it's interesting to see that you've become infected with the Obama strain...

It's a shame that your sensible analysis of the potential 2012 GOP field is marred by nonsense like this...tell me, if the president does win a second term, what are some of the specific horrible things that will happen? Reeducation camps, perhaps? The banning of opposition political parties? Maybe even gulags and show trials...

Oh, I'd say the chances of it are at least fair...

If yesterday’s Holocaust Museum slaying of security guard and national hero Stephen Tyrone Johns is not a clarion call for banning hate speech, I don’t know what is…

Not only have we had three hate crime murders within the last two weeks (Mr. Johns, as noted above, Dr. George Tiller a week ago last Sunday, and Pvt. William Andrew Long by an American-born Muslim convert outside a recruiting station just before that.)…

It’s not enough to prosecute these murders as murders. They are hate-motivated crimes and each of these men had been under some sort of police surveillance prior to their actions. Isn’t it time we started rounding up promoters of hate before they kill?

Exactly the same kind of totalitarianism you're mocking, here...

This is exactly what I predicted in a piece on 'hate crimes' some years ago. When we see supposedly 'responsible' members of the leftist press calling for such things... exactly as I predicted they would... I know I was right all along.

John Kerry was savaged by more than one Catholic Bishop over his abortion position, and during the 2008 election cycle several prominent Catholic supporters received the same treatment(links on request). About 50 catholic prelates decided to raise a stink when Notre Dame conferred an Honorary Law Degree on the President. Conservatives joined the “how could Notre Dame due this” breast beating crowd, magnifying the event, and Obama’s speech.

John Kennedy stood up and said that he would be President to all people, and would not march to the dictates of Rome. He won that election. If Jindhal runs, he will have to make the same pledge. Guess what, nobody is going to believe him…

And then, there is this article in that well known (cough, cough) liberal newspaper.

I don't know if you saw my piece on that point, but it was my read based on the numbers and what I've seen of the election process over there that it was not so much a victory for the right as a defeat for the left. Republicans, in my view, can come out in front of that particular Lynch mob when it happens here in another year and a half, and for many of the same reasons.

As a result of those reasons, even absent serious leaders on the part of the GOP they're going to pick up a number of seats regardless of what else happens. I'd prefer they had real conservatives so it was a genuine victory for the Republicans vs simply a defeat for the Democrats, but we'll see what happens.

Perhaps you could refrain from your usual juvenile baby-talk for a moment and actually refute the points made...Eric feels as though the president has "screwed up royally"...who believes this other than people like you? Also, at this point, who in the GOP could defeat the president in 2012? Now, if you could answer these questions without your usual ranting nonsense...

With three successive very close elections in a row...

How was the 2008 election "very close"...

The steady march into socialism could easily become a dead run for communism when reelection no longer hangs over his head.

It's a shame that your sensible analysis of the potential 2012 GOP field is marred by nonsense like this...tell me, if the president does win a second term, what are some of the specific horrible things that will happen? Reeducation camps, perhaps? The banning of opposition political parties? Maybe even gulags and show trials...

With three successive very close elections in a row, (by electorate, not necessarily by electoral college), it will take a far more decisive victory for a republican president to effectively move his platform forward. Some of the people I am about to discuss, while electable, would lack sufficient support as president to be effective.

Those of you on the far right salivating at the prospect of a Sarah Palin bid please be seated she’s not the one. Not only would she be rendered ineffective as president, she is not even electable. If the republican far right base foists this candidate upon us, the general election will be lost.

Sorry Mormons, Mitt’s not moving into the Whitehouse anytime soon either. Not that I think he’d be a bad president, but losing the primary in ’08 will work against him. I do think he’d be a good choice for VP though.

Huckabee is out as well. Get over it bible thumpers; the general public is not going to elect a Baptist pastor. He’s likable and funny, but his pastoral past will act as a lead weight around his neck in a general election.

Many republicans are looking favorably on Piyush "Bobby" Jindal. Forget it, we’re just not ready. Enough said.

David Patraeus is another potential being eyed, but despite the fact that we all love a decorated veteran, he isn’t likely to shock and awe in the 2012 race. He definitely has the most impressive resume of the lot. What he lacks, however, is the needed charisma. He’s a star, just not a super star. He has also claimed to have no political aspirations, and in my opinion he might even be a little too smart for the job.

Rudy Giuliani? Well… just no.

Then there’s Ron Paul. As an originalist myself, I like the idea of an originalist for president. Unfortunately I am also a realist, and I have long ago come to grips with the fact that the U.S. is never again going to be the country it was intended to be. So… nope.

Charlie Crist has been posturing for a national ticket since the day he got the keys to the Florida Governor‘s mansion. Charlie is what conservative bloggers refer to as a “RINO” (republican in name only). This guy is barely to the right of Barack Obama and would never get the nomination. Thank god for small favors huh?

Newt Gingrich could probably win with the right VP, but lets face it, his day has come and gone. Although I see him as the strongest contender currently on the market, moving into the Whitehouse is only half the battle. His 1994 congressional coup was nothing short of miraculous, but his lack of follow through on the much lauded Contract With America will always haunt him. Powerful promises are great, if you can deliver on them. Newt, however, went from a driven leader with a purpose, to the great compromiser in a matter of months. Sorry Newt.

If there is a Reagan in the making out there, republicans had better find him soon. Considering the strides Obama has already made towards socialism in his first 5 months, imagine what a second term could bring. The steady march into socialism could easily become a dead run for communism when reelection no longer hangs over his head.

Considering that there may be only 35 Republican Senators and less than 150 Republican Congressmen, why would anyone want to invest their time and efort into a failing party.

I doubt we'll see those numbers. But the GOP came back from something around that in 1994. And the Democrats were pretty close to that early this decade. Bubbles burst.

The next question is whether there will still be a Republican party around in 2016 to challenge whoever is hand picked to succeed President Obama.

Considering that there may be only 35 Republican Senators and less than 150 Republican Congressmen, why would anyone want to invest their time and efort into a failing party.

Only to people like you...who, thankfully, are only a very small part of the population...

lol, dude how could you possibly drink that much kookaid.............

Jindal won't make Obama a one term president unless Obama screws up royally, which, as of yet, he hasn't. I expect to see much more of Jindal for the 2016 election.

And this dude must be just dipping his finger in the pack......

Sorta like the Iraq voters, he got kookaid stains....

kookaid, poopaid, stupaid, whats your flavor flav?