Reply #140: no I don't mean he put party over country

[Carolina]

but rather think how impotent he would have been with Congress and the media allied against him. He'd get little done, he'd be blamed for EVERYTHING including the mess inherited from Bush, he'd be vilified like/possibly worse than Clinton (remember repukes don't suffer defeat magnanimously) and next time likely go down to defeat like Jimmy Carter against Reagan after 4 years of repuke obstructionism which would be attributed to an ineffectual Kerry and which would possibly throw the progressive half of the nation in same executive wilderness for we suffered under 12 years of Reagan-Bush I.