**** Elections thread *****

[a500lbgorilla]

Nah, the socialist independent is the Democrat. The Democrats have been Republicans since the invention of the RINO. Where normal republicans were attacked for not being fanatical enough.

Fanaticism to achieve moderate conservative gains was a clever ploy that tied up Obama for all of 3 years while he figured it out, but it's dead now.

[wufwugy]

Fanaticism to achieve moderate conservative gains was a clever ploy that tied up Obama for all of 3 years while he figured it out, but it's dead now.

What were those?

[a500lbgorilla]

What were those?

The fiscal cliff.

That was the manifestation of Thomas Schelling's "An Essay on Bargaining".

It worked until Obama simply excused himself from the conversation and the GOP was forced to fold.