So, how are your conservative friends taking it?

[TaraJo]

Obama's next four years will be filled with scandal, (like Benghazi), and continued partisan bickering...

You might be right on that one. They did it with Bill Clinton and they hate Obama even more. So far, they haven't dug up any dirt that's really stuck; the best they have are vague questions about his birth certificate.

Makes me wonder, though, if they continue to be this adamant with their "Grrrrr I hate Obama and won't let him do anything" what will happen with midterms? When a party is seen as overly partisan to the point that it interferes with their ability to govern, they tend to get hurt in the polls. Remember the `98 midterms? The GOP made their entire campaign about Bills bad behavior and they got their ass kicked. Might be the same thing in 2 years.

Also, it bears repeating: until they can eliminate the tie between the Republican party and subtle (or sometimes not-so-subtle) racism, they will lose out on the latino vote and they will lose becase of it. Hispanic voters are the fastest growing segment of the population and alienating them is a terrible idea. Also, if I wanted my political party to be more popular, I'd try to avoid having my party so closely associated with 'rape.' So far, those ideas just started to latch on a little right after the election, but I can't help but think, somewhere in September or October of 2014, they'll forget all about it and we'll here some Republican telling us that it's ok to rape illegal immigrants and then Fox News will jump in to back him up.