By what I can see, we will probably lose in 2008. But we cannot descend into nihilism from the loss. It only means we have not gained enough power yet. If we are patient, we will transform the way America does politics.
2008 will not be a tipping point. The battle is just beginning.
I hope by “we” you mean the Republican party of genuine conservatives, and not the unholy coalition of wingnuts, Christianists and neocons that Karl Rove (quite successfully) stitched together, like a Frankensteinian creature. ;p
I can just about guarantee you, Shawn, THAT party WILL lose the White House in ’08… and that will be a positive development for all concerned. Not just liberals (I really detest how “conservatives” have, for strategic purposes, made the word an epithet—while the opposite has NOT occurred—as that’s not the way to reasoned political debate and discourse) but especially for true conservatives such as yourself.
~ L.
I wasn’t referring to the Republican Party; I was referring to anyone, in any party, who cares about truth and politics.
If the Democratic Party is foolish enough to pick Hillary, we may end up with a Republican president, like the demagogue Giuliani, the hack Thompson, or the disingenuous Romney. Or Hillary could win, the woman who refuses to say that her Iraq war vote was a mistake.
Maybe Obama represents change, but I’m skeptical.
The corrupted Republican Party definitely should lose this time around, but that’s a bigger topic.