Much as I'd like to believe "This shit ain’t happening," recent history isn't reassuring: the GOP was in even greater disarray after Goldwater's defeat in `64, and `68 brought us the dawn of the Nixon Age.
Likewise, outsiders' attempts to impose imperial order on Afghanistan have never ended well. Let's hope the Taliban don't turn out to be Obama's Vietcong, or we might have to wrap our brains around the idea of "President Palin" -- who looks about as likely now as Nixon did in `65....
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Much as I'd like to believe "This shit ain’t happening," recent history isn't reassuring: the GOP was in even greater disarray after Goldwater's defeat in `64, and `68 brought us the dawn of the Nixon Age.
Likewise, outsiders' attempts to impose imperial order on Afghanistan have never ended well. Let's hope the Taliban don't turn out to be Obama's Vietcong, or we might have to wrap our brains around the idea of "President Palin" -- who looks about as likely now as Nixon did in `65....