If the GOP only makes marginal gains next year, Democrats should send thank-you cards to Tea-Baggers throughout the nation.
What's more: we ought to look to absorb some of them. That's exactly how Nixon built his Emerging Republican Majority - splitting the Democrats at the cleavage. If we can attract some of the social liberals, and then moderate on economics (the way President Clinton surely had in mind), we might then get somewhere.
You may even get me.
NiK wouldn't be the only one you'd get.
bullmoose and Nik aren't the only ones you would get. But we have already spoke on this, haven't we?