Reply #7: No. Conditions are not ripe enough [View All]

[Tom Rinaldo]

Democratic traditions are still far too rooted for that to fly. Even serious talk or leaks about that would set back the right wing by a decade or more. However if Bush is reelected, and they continue to undermine Democracy to the extent that they are able to be seen as plausibly seating another puppet President in 2008, at that point I can begin to conceive of scenarios like that as becoming plausible. If this crew gets 8 more years to consolidate power and propagate, I will be far more worried about the lack of any constraints on their power.