Fear, loathing and recrimination in the RedState comments section

[Indy Texas]

I feel sorry for these people. They truly do live on another plane of reality.

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[Mad Deadly Worldwide Communist Gangster Computer God]

Those are the attitudes that will give Rick Santorum the nomination in four years.

I'm feeling good about 2016 already.

[King]

This is great news for Obama.  40% of Americans' expectations for the next for years is the end of America as a country. 

They're going to be shocked when unemployment continues the steady decline, Afghanistan ends, and the sun comes up.  And pleased with Obama's job after such low expectations.

[Cryptic]

Those are the attitudes that will give Rick Santorum the nomination in four years.

I'm feeling good about 2016 already.

That's what I'm thinking too.  

[Joe Republic]

That's right, GOP.  You're in a trough cycle right now because you're seen as too moderate.  Yep, that's it.

[Eraserhead]

Akin and Murdock lost because they were too moderate as well. Duh.

[Sasquatch]

Go further to the right conservatives.

I wonder who will be the GOP Michael Dukakis in 2016.

[LiberalJunkie]

Those are the attitudes that will give Rick Santorum the nomination in four years.

I'm feeling good about 2016 already.

That's what I'm think too. 

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]

Akin and Murdock lost because they were too moderate as well. Duh.

Ah, but Thompson and Brown did (). I guarantee you that this will be a serious conservative talking point by 2016.

[NVGonzalez]

Those are the attitudes that will give Rick Santorum the nomination in four years.

I'm feeling good about 2016 already.

That's what I'm think too. 

[Antonio the Sixth]

Those are the attitudes that will give Rick Santorum the nomination in four years.

I'm feeling good about 2016 already.

That's what I'm think too. 

I'm feeling this way too. 4 years is a long way to go, but I have a hard time seeing the GOP moving away from their conservative fever and an even harder time seeing how they could win with the kind of candidate that their base would want to nominate. Especially if the economy starts improving substantially, this has the potential to be quite good in 2016.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Those are the attitudes that will give Rick Santorum the nomination in four years.

I'm feeling good about 2016 already.

Oh, it won't be that simple. They'll be a bloody internecine struggle first, between the tea party, conservative evangelicals (I'm not sure there's a difference between those two anymore) and the Republicans who'd actually like to win. And if someone like Jeb Bush does get the nomination without kowtowing to the far right wingnuts, I wouldn't be surprised to see them bolt, especially if they can get an ideologically acceptable 3rd party candidate.