HOW MUCH TIME DO WE HAVE?

Is there a road so long that, no matter how many times you kick a can down it, you will never reach the end?

The answer is yes, there is – because the operative word in the question is not "road" or "long," but "you."  The game is to keep kicking your can down the road until you’re able to force others to make it their can, like taxpayers or your children when you die.  Another proven successful alternative is to blame the existence of the can on a scapegoat, like "the 1%" or "capitalism."

Most successful of all is to deny there is a can at all, and demonize anyone who says there really is one.  All of these strategies work – until they don’t.  Reality exists, no matter how much people engage in reality-denial.  Thus the time always comes when reality bites.  So the question we all need to face is, how much time do we have until it does? 

For reality is getting ready to bite us all in our backsides big time.  When almost everyone engages in reality-denial, the kicked can really does reach the end of the road, and that’s just about where we are right now.

Here are two screamingly unpalatable facts.  The first is, the odds are growing now that Zero will be reelected.  The second is, it may not make much difference if Zero is defeated.

Again, we need to focus on the operative word here, in this case "much."  At first, Zero and Mrs. Zero being thrown out of the White House will be the cause of a national celebration.  The greatest and longest nightmare our nation has suffered in modern memory will be over.  The DOW will go up 2,000 points just for starters.  Party Time, USA.

Americans – or at least a majority of them – will have the happiest Thanksgiving, the merriest Christmas, and the most joyful New Year of their lives.  The inauguration of the new Republican president will spark an explosion of optimism.  How long this will last is a guess. Probably at least a few months, maybe even a year.  And then…

Reality kicks in again.  We’ll be around $17 trillion in debt by then with rising interest rates making debt service so humongous it crowds out the government’s ability to pay for all manner of services and programs to which voters are addicted and feel entitled.  The fantasy that a "pro-growth" Republican policy will enable us to grow our way out of the fiscal abyss without gargantuan cuts in entitlements and government worker pensions will be exposed as… a fantasy.

Sometime in 2014, probably earlier than later, inflation will start to roar.  Demands to default on US debt will become deafening.  The new Republican president and his Congress will be like deer in the headlights.  By the time everyone realizes they’ve got to run for the exits, some Plan B bolthole escape hatch in small town rural America or overseas, it’s too late.  They get trampled in the panic.

Worse, the America that emerges out of this Hyperinflation Great Depression will be less free not more, with more government edicts, controls, and Constitution-shredding fascism than before – just like the first Great Depression of the 1930s.  Historically, this is virtually always what people choose or accept to replace anarchic chaos and economic collapse.

Is this inevitable?  It’s too soon to tell.  Zero has dug – or rather, the American people have allowed him to dig – our country into an almost unimaginably deep hole.  They are continuing to allow him to dig it deeper every day.  If they were rational, they would have demanded and gotten his impeachment and removal from office well before now.  As it is, the latest NBC/Wall St. Journal poll (1/24) shows more people approve of him (48%) than not (46%).

It was insane, a symptom of deep culture-wide psychological derangement, for a majority of voters to choose Zero as president.  It is even more insane to support him today.  We TTPers have to face the reality that we are living among people who are clinically nuts.  We have to face the further reality that they may well not snap out of this by November 6^th.

So what do we do?  What should conservatives in general do? 

The answer:  focus support on the Republican candidate who has the best chance to beat Zero, regardless of what he stands for or who he is, for none of that matters anymore.  It really is ABO now.

The reason is that, with Perry gone, there is no candidate – not Romney, not Gingrich, not Mitch Daniels or anyone other than Perry or Palin – who can get America out of the hole Zero has dug, who can cut Leviathan down to 10^th Amendment size, which necessitates putting millions of government workers on the street without a job or pension.

Well, without a government job.  A Perry or Palin would get the government out of the way of the economy so much that real jobs would be abundant, albeit not six-figure make-work "jobs" government moochers have.

So all that matters now is ABO – because if Zero is reelected, the collapse happens fast, and if he is not, it is delayed.

Whoever defeats Zero, however unable to prevent collapse, will postpone it.  That give us more time to prepare.  This is the reason to wholeheartedly support the Republican nominee, whoever he is.  Forget the lesser-of-two-evils shtick.  Forget protest votes for nobodies like Gary Johnson.  Support the Pub nominee for the purely practical reason that it will give you more time to figure out how to best save your and your loved ones’ derrieres.

(Note:  Forget also a Third Party run by Ron Paul – that is totally out of the question as it would torpedo the political future of his son, Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky.  That decision has been made.)

Yes, there are scenarios where a Perry or Palin could be the nominee.  A brokered convention could select either one, although the likelihood would be to go for a "safer" more plain vanilla folk like Mitch Daniels or Jeb Bush.

Or, if Gingrich gets enough delegates in the proportional primaries through March then craters, to deny the nomination to Romney he could assign his delegates to Perry (who endorsed him with this deal in mind).  By that time, voters in the April-June winner-take-all primaries may realize Perry is the best candidate after all. 

Maybe, maybe not.  Frankly, I won’t be surprised if the eventual nominee is neither Mittens or Newton.  But who knows and we shouldn’t care.  Unless the nominee is someone who stands an actual real ghost of a chance to rescue America, then all that matters is Zero’s defeat.

All that matters is, how much time do we have?  If Zero wins, we don’t have any time at all.  It is over for America, immediately.  If Zero loses, it buys us time.  Not a lot, but enough.  ABO.