"If he secures re-election," I argued, "Bush can be relied upon to press on with a foreign policy based on pre-emptive military force, to ignore the impending fiscal crisis (on Vice-President Dick Cheney's principle that "deficits don't matter") and to pursue socially conservative objectives such as the constitutional ban on gay marriage. Anyone who thinks this combination will serve to maintain Republican Party unity is dreaming; it will surely do the opposite."

Not bad predictions.

Wonder if it will be a "perfect storm"?