I can't responsibly rule it out, not while the "second amendment remedy" meme in all its glorious variations is so evidently thriving. But I don't think it's very controversial to predict that if there's a civil war, it won't be started by liberals. You'll get a more meaningful answer asking the teahadists if they plan a civil war.

I could go for a divorce, though, blue coasts cleaving off from the red interior. I think that if anybody had the balls to take a poll on the question at this point in time, they'd hear a chorus of "hell yeah!" from people standing on soil of both colors.

Perry, that lunkhead, just wasn't thinking big enough when he urged Texas to secede.

Seriously, can you think of any arguments against an amicable divorce? If ever there were two parties with irreconcilable differences, it'd be red and blue...or, when you analyze it closer, it's a culture clash of city versus country. And as somebody with city sensibilities, I've had it up to here with ignorant country bumpkins trying to run my life according to a philosophy based on a Disney vision of the 18th century. Enough!

Besides, if we don't part voluntarily and peacefully, the alternative is inevitably a civil war. The pressure can't keep building forever. I'd prefer to solve the problem without violence.