Perhaps the most interesting player in this drama will be Barack Obama who must decide how he will exit the stage. I began by asserting that the Democrats must recognize that Obama is an "alien force" whose allegiance is not to the Democrat party which he opportunistically regards as a vehicle to exploit, but to the Communist Party. After six years, when even before his first inauguration we on Free Republic identified Obama as a communist, I believe those of us who got it right are entitled today to state the obvious: Obama does not carry allegiance to the Democrat party but to his ideology and he will sacrifice the Democrat party and Democrats in general to further his one world, utopian, Saul Alinsky community organizer ideology.
Obama succeeded in ignoring the results of the 2010 election and pivoting to the right and was rewarded for his obdurancy by reelection in 2012. Nathan Bedford's first Maxim of American politics: All politics in America is not local but ultimately racial and that implies that Obama sees the world through the prism of race and will exploit the race card to mitigate the damage his socialist ideology will cause his own legacy and his putative party. He will do this because 2012 told him that race demagoguery succeeds.
So Obama will govern with minimal regard for 2016 if it comes at the expense of his personal ideology. Clever Republicans will find ways to expose what Obama will do and force Democrats to risk severe party discipline or defeat. Watch Hillary, if she can pivot the Democrat party creating a new axis away from Obama and unto herself even before she is nominated it is possible that Democrats can desert Obama with impunity. It is typical of the Clintons to attempt to triangulate and Obama might just offer her an open field.(emphasis supplied)
