neither Sharpton-with-an-Ivy-League-degree nor being a "dangerous radical" are descriptives which would turn me off.
It's going to get crazy ugly. The Repubs aren't fools, and all these positive indicators seem to indicate that a Hail Mary is their only shot.
The only thing that MAY mitigate the ugliness is the backlash against their downticket, but even that is looking sad for the GOP.
I'm bracing myself the week after convention. And it won't be Sharpton, it will be something less caricature-ish and more disturbing.
the election is not government, just the road to it. IF Obama is playing the long game, he's going to want to burn as few bridges as possible on the way to POTUS.
Right now, there is a temporal reason for Dems to "hate" GOP, the general election. What Obama may be doing is trying to insure there's no structural reason for the conflict - that past the election, the parties can find some common ground.
