Oh THIS is going to piss off the Conservatives!

Courtesy of the Daily Beast:

As the fall has turned crisper, a second term for Barack Obama has gotten likelier. This may, of course, change: the debates, the Middle East, the unemployment numbers could still blow up the race. At this point in 2004, one recalls, George W. Bush was about to see a near eight-point lead shrivel to a one-state nail-biter by Election Day. But one thing that has so far, in my view, been underestimated is the potential impact of a solid Obama win, and perhaps a Democratic retention of the Senate and some progress in the House. This is now a perfectly plausible outcome. It would also be a transformational moment in modern American politics. 

If Obama wins, to put it bluntly, he will become the Democrats’ Reagan. The narrative writes itself. He will emerge as an iconic figure who struggled through a recession and a terrorized world, reshaping the economy within it, passing universal health care, strafing the ranks of al -Qaeda, presiding over a civil-rights revolution, and then enjoying the fruits of the recovery. To be sure, the Obama recovery isn’t likely to have the same oomph as the one associated with Reagan—who benefited from a once-in-a-century cut of top income tax rates (from 70 percent to, at first, 50 percent, and then to 28 percent) as well as a huge jump in defense spending at a time when the national debt was much, much less of a burden. But Obama’s potential for Reagan status (maybe minus the airport-naming) is real. Yes, Bill Clinton won two terms and is a brilliant pol bar none, as he showed in Charlotte in the best speech of both conventions. But the crisis Obama faced on his first day—like the one Reagan faced—was far deeper than anything Clinton confronted, and the future upside therefore is much greater. And unlike Clinton’s constant triangulating improvisation, Obama has been playing a long, strategic game from the very start—a long game that will only truly pay off if he gets eight full years to see it through. That game is not only changing America. It may also bring his opposition, the GOP, back to the center, just as Reagan indelibly moved the Democrats away from the far left.

Well I am far less impressed with Ronald Reagan then the Republican (Or Republican-lites like Sullivan) are, but I recognize the comparison that is being made here.

In fact Obama could likely go down in history as a far more accomplished president than Reagan, simply because the accomplishments he takes credit for are indeed HIS accomplishments. Unlike Reagan who always gets credit of the ending of the Cold War when in fact it was almost entirely due to the bravery and sacrifice of Mikhail Gorbachev, and credit for fixing an economy, though it was not that good and he had virtually nothing to do with it, Obama is the driving force behind virtually all of his numerous accomplishments.

This however is a very good article and I suggest that you click the link at the top to read the whole thing, though I do sort of fear that if Sullivan and others copntinue to make such a conservatively blasphemous statement such as this, that the Republications will do EVERYTHING in their power to undermine Obama before he can usurp their idol's undeserved crown.

In other words they will continue to behave EXACTLY as they have done since the night that President Obama was sworn into office. Which is simply more evidence as to why we need to get them voted out of office as quickly as possible.