Paint Picture of US *IF* Perry wins and GOP wins 60 Senate seats in 2012

[J. J.]

Probably a reduction in military spending.  I would not be too surprised to see amnesty for illegal aliens, provided they are good quasi-citizens.

[J. J.]

Basically we'd very quickly become a third world banana republic.

Become?

[J. J.]

Put the kabash on the Tea Party and become a responsible governing party again.

Remember the "angry white males" of the 1990's.. the militia groups... Pat Buchanan....  all of that seemed to go away in 2000.

Yeah...what a great 8 years of peace and prosperity we had during that period.

Well 7 years of prosperity. 

[J. J.]

Since it came up on another thread, I'd like to elaborate on the military spending aspect, and why it might be reduced.

1.  There are new priorities.  The candidates are saying "The federal government is too big."  The tea party movement is saying that.  Part of that government is the military.  Not increasing it, or decreasing it, fits with that philosophy.  I really do not recall any R presidential candidate saying "More money for defense."

2.  Obama has shown that bigger is not necessarily better.  Bin Laden was not taken down by a large force; he was in a county where we did not have a combat presence.  Abd al-Rahman was taken out by a drone strike.  Libya is being fought without any troops on the ground, relatively inexpensively.

3.  The R's agreed to the debt ceiling deal that, at least potentially, includes defense cuts, to the point Panetta (D) is complaining about them.

We might be seeing a change in how both parties look at military spending.  We might see this even if Obama is re-elected.