It will be the GOP theme. And it will work. Because people will have had their fill of welfare/nanny state socialism by then. And if not by 2010 then certainly by 2012.
If things are better in 2012 than they are now, then people won't give a d@mn about the deficits and big spending that got them there. Most people would rather make a living off the welfare state than starve in the street. Merchants who accept food stamps/TANF and medical professionals who treat Medicaid patients will support the "nanny state". Employees of contractors doing big government projects don't care that the money ultimately comes from government grants.
People won't accept cold, hunger, and idleness as proof of some virtue of a government that might do otherwise -- not even in Oklahoma.
Idleness is the democrat party's stock in trade. "WHERE'S MY WELFARE CHECK??? I NEED TO BUY CIGS!!!!!"
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