Reply #10: but would such an attempt be credible?

[Alcibiades]

By which I mean that the Republicans loudly celebrated greenspan for over 20 years, even during Clinton, as a financial genius. It's a little like something I thought of during the Larry Craig fiasco: you cannot take a horse, break him, brand him, ride him for 20 years, and then, the moment he does doing something you don't like (such as bucking you off, soliciting anonymous sex in mens' rooms or denouncing policies that are already obviously bad to everyone who isn't some sort of frickin' retard) claim "that's not my horse."