Reply #22: i've been worried about "peaking too soon". [View All]

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whether or not there are pardons, if this blows up right now, it's early enough for the banana republicans to plan 2006 and 2008 electoral strategies around new themes and to marginalize shrub and the gang.

if the banana republicans can distance themselves from shrub, calling for reform and new ideas and "i'm an independent conservative" and crap like that, then they have a shot at holding on to power even while shrub and the gang go down.

on the other hand, if there's some major bad news for them during the 2006 campaign or and/or better yet or more revelations during the 2008 campaign, then the democrats are in much better shape.

i would hate to see this all vanish by having them quickly clear out a bunch of people and then positioning themselves well for 2006 and 2008. getting their new favorite presidential candidate in as veep now would be a scary scenario.