Counterintuitive

Now that the Republican Presidential candidates have loudly sided with the richest one percent of Americans against the interests of the 99% in their rejection of the popular Occupy protests and their repudiation of popular jobs bills paid for by minutely raising the taxes of the richest of the rich, and now that the Republican Presidential candidates have loudly rejected the ending after nearly a decade of America's illegal immoral unpopular catastrophically destructive socially destabilizing ruinously expensive war and occupation of Iraq one has to suppose they are at last perfectly poised in both domestic and foreign policy terms to prevail in the upcoming popular election?