Projection for Wednesday morning

Guns Guns Guns · 11-01-2012, 03:22 PM

If Obama wins, the GOP's fury will intensify, and the party will only get more extreme

The lesson of every loss, even the routs, has been “we were not conservative enough.”

The Goldwater smackdown in 1964 really did lay the groundwork for the Reagan revolution and the ensuing conservative era.

But the loss to Barack Obama in 2008 — and the toppling of establishment conservatives by tea party insurgents in 2010 — has put the extremes in charge.

So what happens if Obama beats Mitt Romney and the Republicans again, this time after the likes of McConnell made denying him a second term their main legislative mission over the last four years?

If Obama wins, they’re going to say — I can already read the stories — “If only we had found a true conservative.”

Now, they couldn’t find a true conservative who wouldn’t frighten children.

All they could come up with was Michele Bachmann, Santorum, Herman Cain, Gingrich, but the next go-round they’ll have Marco Rubio, Paul Ryan and others.

That’s the way the party is going to go.

They’ll say as much as they said of McCain, “He didn’t really represent us.”

How many times in a row can you say that after a loss?

http://www.salon.com/2012/10/27/fran...if_obama_wins/