I think things are going to get very “interesting” after 2012. If what we’re currently seeing represents the best the Republicans can come up with, there’s not a way in hell they can win a Presidency with that shtick. Or so I hope.

I think the GOP is going to win back some seats in 2010 - not as many as they’d like, but enough to make them think this Tea Party bullshit is the the correct horse to which their wagon should be hitched. They’re going to think that, if blasting it on “10” worked for the mid-terms, then by golly, turning it up to “11” is the key to the White House.

Unless something catastrophic happens that is unarguably the direct fault of the Obama administration, nobody on the GOP radar today has any chance whatsoever of winning a presidential election.** Obama will win reelection in 2012, and whether it’s by a margin of 1% or 10%, the members of the Tea Party contingent who don’t instantly explode like the guy from David Cronenberg’s “Scanners” are going to go absolutely berserk.

I think the best we can hope for, as a country, is a zombie apocalypse or a robot uprising. Maybe both.

** - unless the country is far more fucked up than I think…