What would it look like if St. Andrew of the Blessed Heart-Ache was actually the Conservative that we're so often told he is? Well, I changed a few key words, and...

My view is that people do not change that much and their history is often a guide to who they are, and I observed Obama very closely - after initially liking him - and that's my judgment. I'm very fallible and I may be wrong so I urge Dish readers to seek other views and interpretations. But here's the point I'd make now: If Obama had himself shifted the narrative since the election, if he had gone back to the Senate to do his job diligently, and made an effort to master domestic and foreign policy issues, and run for a second term on his record, rather than preening about in [insert fawning media outlet here] and picking fights with Rush Limbaugh and setting up Organizing For America and on and on, then I think many of us would have been prepared to look again. He was hopelessly unready in 2008 - but he's young and could evolve and grow. Everything we see - from the international family citizenship issues and poverty scandals to the staged controversies - suggest a regression, not an evolution. He is who he is, hence the solidity of his support and opposition.

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