Whatever the results of the 2012 election, the Republicans we know so well will keep right on keeping on with business as usual. (I'm not even going to go into Democrat lala-land). Even many of the regular attendees at TEA party public meetings believe Social Security is sacrosanct, and cannot be questioned, or debated. All the other national medical freebies, same story. Actual conservative hobbits who can do simple math are a distinct minority, and a candidate who wants to get enough votes to win an election must continuously keep on duping the suckers. The only way that will change is when the impact of reality crashes in on individual Americans, and they face the realization that their own wishful thinking got them this deep in the hole. That is going to take hard times and fundamental revisions, which (as witness this weekends voting) will always be postponed by those who got into a position to choose. No one individual is directing this to happen; it is the representation of the will of the people, and will continue until the brick wall of economic reality eventually stops the ride.