@Jaxk Once again, you confuse my distaste for the current Republicans to mean that I am a Democrat. As for Obama being a moron, well, he is a politician, and since the name of the game recently is throwing out ridiculous proposals that would never fly, I am not sure if he was even serious with his budget; in fact, I doubt he was.
Regarding Moderates, remeber that New England and the West Coast are also part of the US, and much of the population of the US lives within 100 miles of the coast. It’s not all about the Midwest and the South! Now, if the states that seceded back in the mid-100s want to leave again, I’m not sure if I’d object….
But that is part of what makes America great; the ability (and right) to disagree and to do so out loud. Of course, our weakness is that the two sides have drifted far enough apart (well, one moved towards extremism while the other hasn’t…) that meaningful dialog is increasingly difficult and compromising for the greater good effectively impossible (one side does not believe in “greater good”), so we are where we are.
We’ll see come November, but I somehow doubt the Romney/Ryan ticket will get strong support from swing voters.