[lbo-talk] Where do Republican Presidents Come From?

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

Carrol:
> This is crucial, for to acknowledge it is to undercut the argument
that
> this election is somehow _different_. It isn't. The election of Kerry
> this fall more or less guarantees the eventual election of a
republican
> president who will be as bad as or worse than Bush. Try it this way: A
> vote for Kerry in 2004 is a vote for Rumsfield (or equivalent) in
2012.
> The principles of this 2012 president will be at least as vicious as
> Bush's. His capacity to implement them may well be greater.

Carrol, the logic of this argument escapes me altogether.  It seems to
follow the line "If A, then not A": "If Dems win, then someone much
worse will eventually win"  "If the bottle is no full, it will surely be
empty" "If things seem to be good, they surely become bad" etc. - which
seems either (a) absurd on its face or (b) a manic-depressive delusion.
Could you elaborate?

Wojtek