They were pretty idiotic about it during the campaign -- repeated reassurances that there won't be coaslitioning with the Left Party, used as occasion by the CDU to 'warn' of the SPD wavering on this promise...

Maybe the SPD will be ready in four years, say if regional coalitions will work out in Saarland or Thuringia. Maybe only after the tainted generation in the East German Left Party and the Cold War mentality generation in the SPD retires.

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}