thanks to the web and freedom of info, the pendulum is swingin faster than ever. it doesn't take a generation for people to wake up to the extreme of one side, it takes a year or two.
repubs will do well in 2010 (although I don't think they win a priority), and a tea party-flavored candidate may win in 2012 (although all those pissed off libs will come back to obama the minute Thune or palin tells them what to do with their body and hold their nose to vote obama).
And 2016 at the latest, Repubs will return to common sense governing for a year or two. Then, to keep economy afloat, they'll start another war, let's be honest guys... And people will tire of that, and in 2020 a new Obama will emerge to rescue us from the 2 wars that President Thune started... etc etc...