So tell me...

[jsbowden]

What country to Republicans run away to when their guy loses?

At least I don't have to listen to people threatening to move to Canookistan, but the lamentations of the right leaning folks in the office should be interesting this morning once they start filtering in.

Comments

[tober.livejournal.com]

I am giving some consideration to Australia - although I was planning to do so regardless whether McCain or Obama won (because I expect the next 5 to 10 years here to be a disaster no matter what). I would not claim that Australia is exactly more conservative on average than the US (although, in a number of regards, it is - but in a number of other regards it's considerably more liberal) but at least it doesn't seem to be moving rapidly further left. Furthermore, religious conservatives (who I do not like and do not see eye-to-eye with) are a rarity there. Finally, but probably most importantly, economic fundamentals in Australia are strong (the country in general always runs both a government surplus and a current account surplus).

Although Canada has yet to quite equal Europe in its degree of lean to the left, it's fairly close. It's also too close (literally) to the US... and then there's the perennial conflict between Francophones and Anglophones. No thanks.