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In reply to the discussion: Can someone please explain to me why the Republican Party still enjoys [View all]KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)and running around like a chicken with its head cut off.
Not a pipe dream at all. I've said elsewhere that 2014 mid-terms are a win-win for Dems. If they win, so much the better. If they lose, they're merely giving the Republicans more rope with which to hang themselves come 2016. Neither scenario need produce a mindset where Dems feel they must 'win at any cost.'
Just so I don't seem like a cold, heartless bastard, a Republican win in the 2014 mid-terms will represent near-term ongoing hardship for working-class Americans. If I weren't myself so close to being under the bus myself, I'd not want to throw workers under the bus. And I really don't want to. But I think the stage is getting set for a massive Democratic landslide in 2016 (when a lot of Republican Senators are up for re-election and themselves vulnerable the way sitting Dem Senatorrs are in 2014).