The optimism; it’s unbearable

Today’s Denver Post columns asks: Will likeability be enough? It also touches on the idea that Obama is the new Democrat Reagan.

While there are similarities, there is also an enormous dissimilarity. Reagan brought with him — whether you are a fan or not — a comprehensive ideological shift within his own party. A conservatism that germinated in think tanks, grass-roots organizations and college campuses. A coalition in the making since 1964.