Would just like to make the observation that political parties do NOT define the values and philosophies of their supporters, but it is the supporters that define the values and philosophies of political parties. Party names, in reality, are just names. And while the GOP has certainly slid to the left in pursuit of a belief that acting more like Kennedy Democrats will win elections, the Democrat Party has moved so far left that its core philosophies of collectivism and socialism have turned it into something unrecognizable by the standards this country has considered major political party material.
What is about to happen to both parties is a shift to the right. The Republican Party is shifting more to its conservative tradition, and yes, the Democrat Party will eventually break away from the radicals in the WH and move towards a socially liberal, but fiscally more conservative stance that embraces freedom and liberty and fights with Americans against this assault on our most basic beliefs and traditions.
The real danger now is that Marxist/Socialist radicals still control the White House and are not about to give up on their "Progressive" plans for fundamentally transforming America. They've been working on it for 100 years, but now that Americans are finally understanding their plan, Progressives know that if they can be defeated, they will have to start over to fundamentally transform America into another socialist country run by a massive centralized government.
As Democrats concerned about reelection and respecting the views of the majority turn on Obama and the WH, Obama will exercise more un-Constitutional Executive Branch bullying, threats and Chicago-style personal attacks on fellow Democrats to press his big government Marxist collective agenda. He's still got 3 years to achieve his goals.
Scott Brown's election to the "Kennedy seat" is a tremendous sign that even far-left voters in Massachusetts are waking up and getting it. The real battle now will come to the Legislative Branch where extreme leftists like Nancy Pelosi and Barney Frank still control the levers of power. The battle for America now simply shifts a bit to the ability of Republicans to find patriotic Democrats to take on Obama, Democrat Party leaders, and the Alinsky Media that is giving them cover in everything they do. And even with those allies, getting Congress to stand up to the Executive Branch is going to be difficult until the current leftist leaders of the Democrat majorities are booted out of those positions.
New Jersey and Virgina were the first victories for our Constitutional Republic. Brown's victory was another huge victory in just the next battle. Now Americans need to find and support Democrats in office who support free markets, capitalism, and the liberty that these radicals still want to destroy. Hopefully they're out there. Without their help, this war against progressivism is far from over.