An open letter to the President...

Dear President Obama,

My name is Ben Rider and I am a student who is studying political science and history at the University of Minnesota. Those are 2 subjects you should be very familiar with and if you aren't you WILL be leaving office on Jan 20. 2013. Last night was a disaster for your party much more than it was a victory for us Republicans. I mean losing Ted Kennedy's seat?! Come on man, you guys talk about a "civil war" going on in our party you should listen to the sniping going back and forth between who messed up on your party is amazing. You need to call a meeting of all top Democrat organizers otherwise you will be praying that this November is 1994 because its looking like that could be the best case scenario for your party at this point.
I know its weird for me a staunch conservative "tea-bagger" giving advice to the most liberal, or progressive, President we have ever had but I want to see 2 viable parties. Remember 2004? I thought you guys were on the verge of total collapse after we had gains in the last 3 election cycles. Now, a year ago today I was having the same concerns about my party. James Carville came out with a book called "40 more years" which I need to read now for a good laugh. You came in with a nearly 75% approval rating, you could do no wrong. Then you passed the "stimulus" package and it only seemed to go downhill from there. You have been trying to get healthcare through since May. Scrap this "bill" and start over. I warn you, if you insist on ramming this through it will be the last policy bill you ever pass as president. The American people are pissed and independents are running to the right because they don't like what you Reid and Pelosi are doing. Take a hint from Bill and run to the center. I know there are crazies out there who will say your betraying your base but Daily Kos shouldn't dictate how you govern, the American people should and they just bitch-slapped you last night and told you to wake up or else. You won independents in 2008 because you said you were a moderate and they believed you. I wasn't that stupid, I saw your connection with Ayers and Wright and knew you were selling a bag of shit.
Please for the good of the country Mr.President run to the center. Yes, healthcare needs massive reform, how about you start with caps on malpractice? That way docs won't have to do so much defensive medicine and we will be able to cover people with "pre-existing conditions" with the savings.
Here's another tip, STOP BLAMING BUSH FOR YOUR PROBLEMS. You have had the presidency for a full year now, stop bitching about inherited problems. Yes things were bad a year ago, but you haven't done much to help the situation. You main goal now is to pass a bill that would probably push unemployment to near 15% with all the mandates it has in it. The people are sick of your whining. Also, fire Robert Gibbs, he is possibly the worst press secretary I have ever seen. You need a better spokesman for you administration if you have any hope of getting re-elected.
Every president has his defining moment, Bush had 9/11, Clinton had his Lewinsky disaster, Reagan had his showdown with the Soviets. You might have already had yours with the Christmas plane bomber but I'm saying this is "bigger". You have 2 come to a fork in the road; you can go down the center and try to rethink your insane and increasingly unpopular policies or you can "double-down" and stay hard left. The choice is yours, the American people are watching.