Reply #43: I'd say he's reading the polls, knows the repukes are dead, wants to position himself [View All]

[RainDog]

...and is trying to remain relevant in some way. Something of an opportunist, tho I do remember that he said the neo-con positions were failures as far military policies. Nevertheless, he's still big on American imperialism, it seems, but favors diplomacy rather than invading nations... so I guess that's what's pulled him out of the Republican all-war-all-the-time camp.

He was wrong about "the end of history" and revised his pronouncements - When he wrote that there was no more "history" b/c liberal democracy had triumphed, I thought he was an idiot at the time - but what do I know... except that he was wrong.

The way I read him now, really, is that he wants to remain relevant and he will not be if he continues to be associated with republicans. he's probably offering to bring something along with him... certainly republican credentials to make it okay for republicans to cross over and vote for Obama like democrats did for Reagan.

I'd bet FF wants some sort of official capacity in the Obama administration. we'll see. If I were Obama, however, I wouldn't take the things FF says as gospel b/c the guy is too enamored with his own grandiose ideas.

The reality is that pols see the amount of money Obama is raising, see Obama is bringing in the new generation to be politically involved - and those new voters are more likely to continue to vote with the same party once they vote. The guy sees the gutter-level approval ratings for Bush, sees the republicans lost three seats in special elections, and recognizes that the U.S. is undergoing an electoral revolution very similar to the one that brought FF to the public eye in the first place via Reagan.

So the REAL good news that I see from this is that it's sort of like animals that respond to an earthquake before humans know its coming. Smart pols will be trying to position themselves to remain relevant now that the Republican party committed suicide by allowing the religious right and the "war idealists" to destroy much of this nation's good reputation it had in the world.