"Can it be that the conservatards were full of shit from the get-go?"
Yep: just like the lefties...
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"So...nobody has an answer?" to "explain the outright failure of your dire predictions to materialize?"
The reason no one answered is embedded in two things.
First: most sensible folks (and an ever-decreasing number of those there are!) recognize the conservative and liberal ideologies, as religions (and religions they are!), are useless. That is: the sensible are off figuring out how to navigate around, under, and through, the shit foisted up by both parties/cults.
Second: Obama is a mediocre man with mediocre ideas. The sensible ignore alarmism and marketing/propaganda 'cause the jigaboo will do nothing that hasn't already been done, that is, consolidate power for the 'nobles' on both sides of the aisle and leech off the citizenry.
Now, do sumthin' 'bout it...