Reply #90: yes and money only has value because people believe it does.

[Douglas Carpenter]

but that's besides the point. McCain/Palin were the only viable choices to Obama in 2008. Just as Ronald Reagan was the only viable choice to Jimmy Carter in 1980 and George W. Bush was the only viable choice to Al Gore in 2000. I know that Obama is not a liberal and neither was Jimmy Carter or the Al Gore of the 2000 campaign. I wish that were not the case. But it was. And an even more right-wing ticket, more extreme than Reagan, George W. Bush or McCain/Palin will be the only viable choice to Obama in 2012.I wish there was the viable choice of a pro-universal health care, social-democratic ticket that would cut defense spending, move America away from its unsustainable military empire and put America on the road to democratic socialism. I really, really wish that were the case. But it's not and no amount of wishing will make reality go away.