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In reply to the discussion: Imagine a Republican Administration and Congress in 2017 [View all]calimary
(81,757 posts)I'm sorry. A lot of our fellow DU brothers and sisters don't like the sound of this and don't all embrace the idea but it's still true, dammit:
The WORST Democrat is STILL - EXPONENTIALLY preferable to the "best" republi-CON.
Frankly there's no such thing as a "best" republic-CON anymore. Even Jon Huntsman. He's STILL an "r". So he'd STILL be bringing CONS in with him - some of them guaranteed to be turn-your-stomach bad for America. Some of them would STILL be bringing turn-your-stomach ideas into power to be implemented - with him. And he'd be far more likely to side with his own over-arching team than to give fair hearing to the "D" side. I don't care HOW "moderate" he seems to be.
I just don't trust ANYBODY who places himself or herself with the "r" team. There's a reason they do that. And their reasons DO NOT square with benefiting the greater good. No matter how they slice it, no matter how they spin it, no matter how they sugar-coat it, no matter how they downplay it. IT'S STILL THERE. And it's STILL GONNA BE THERE.