>OK Charles, I'll bite. What makes you think this? I see nothing in his voting history to suggest that he'll be a pleasant surprise to those to his right. I don't count Iraq in this consideration because regardless of their campaign promises, I don't believe any candidate will pull us out, do to the recommendations of the generals and the fact that none want to own a military defeat.
Those to his right have no expectations of him other than his disbanding the military, nationalizing the means of production and requiring gay marriage and some kind of reparations to anyone who has had their feelings hurt in the last 400 years.
Short of that, any behavior in conformity with the realities of the office and the limitations of executive power will be seen as moderation.
Those who expect a messiah, however, are going to be very disappointed and those who present the laundry list of entitlements they think goes with having supported him will tear him to pieces when he cannot (or will not) meet their expectations.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
