I think it COULD be, but I’m not sure that it WILL be. After one term of Carter we got Reagan. It’s taking 2 terms of BO to search for our next great (and wise) leader. S/he has to be out there somewhere! (I pray)

It’s obvious to me that when things are going along all well and good is when people fall asleep and lost interest in politics. They stop paying attention to elected officials and they’re free to pass sneaky legislation and get away with much more. The people that would make the best elected officials usually/often have no interest in public office especially when times are good. But desperate times can coax more grass roots people in to running for public office. For people to revolt against an establishment, they must first be angered by it. Dems sweep in 2008. Obama takes office in 2009. Spends the first 1.5 years of his presidency going all in on Obamacare. Government starts messing with something personal like healthcare, many people wake up and start paying attention. A watered down Obamacare passes. As a result Conservatives between House, Senate, gubernatorial, and state legislatures sweep around 1000 seats in 2010. Obama set the record for midterm election losses. Many career hacks get thrown out and we got some good conservatives. Obama’s legislative agenda gets brought to a halt and gridlock ensues at the federal level for the next two years, but many reforms are initiated at the state level. We survive Obama’s first term. It appears people are ready to throw Obama out, but we get a batch of mediocre milquetoast Republican candidates and he manages to get reelected. Republicans keep House, Dems keep Senate but we got some more fresh conservatives elected. Meanwhile the establishment continues to expose itself by attacking anyone who doesn’t go along and get along which tells us exactly the types we need to vote out/vote in. So I think having a radical like Obama has exposed the RINO frauds within the GOP like no one else could have and now they’re running scared. They have to move right or be primaried. I won’t happen overnight, but Obama very well could turn out to be the one that made people demand conservatism be revived within the GOP. So yes we have Obama, but in having Obama we got many good candidates in other offices that I’m sure we wouldn’t have if didn’t have Obama. So I guess we could have had McCain in office calling us wack birds. We could have had a Bill-Hillary co-presidency. We could have had Romney. All establishment choices. There’s that old saying that goes: “No pain, no gain.” So if having Obama gets us a revolutionary conservative leader elected in 2016, then maybe I’ll give thumbs up at his presidential portrait a few years from now. His reelection wasn’t a mandate. He’s overconfident and making the same mistake Bush did when he got reelected. Obama is a lame duck but Congressional Dems aren’t. Obama is concerned with his legacy, they’re concerned about the next election. Waiting to see who turns on who first.