Dee - I remember you saying that there was no difference between McCain and Obama, which I very much disagreeded with before the election and particulary now. While I may conceed that Ron Paul, or any other Independent candidate (Allen Keys?) would have been a better choice, they did not have the financial or political backing neccessary to make a competitive showing where money talks and BS walks.
The Republican presidential candidate was a "moderate" who we expected to occassionally compromise with radicals to get a bill passed (the press elected him in the "Primary"), while the other was a "Socialist" who we knew would ignore moderates to make sure his agenda passed without opposition. If many of you were "done" with Republicans in power for 6 years (with a Republican congress), how about the Democrats in Congress that had been in power for 40 years before 1994? Even Reagan had to compromise with "Speaker" O'neil to get tax cuts and rebuild the military! (I will agree that history is not kind to the ensuing results of two houses of congress and a president being of the same party. We now have made that mistake two times in a row.)
I would not criticize the view by many of you regarding the "fiscal" irresponsibility of liberal Republicans who behaved like liberal Democrats when spending our tax money. They deserve the same contempt as Democrats who want to "grow government". I draw the line when it comes to the same "big spenders" negative voting history on protections for the "unborn", 2nd Ammendment, free speech, legal immigration, and our Christian society. We now seem to be left with an awful lot of congressman who are working to oppose these rights and protections after we kicked those "corupt" Republicans out of office to "empower" the corrupt Democrats who currently populate the chairmanship of every powerful committe in the House and Senate. We now have 16 Congressmen under inditement (yes, 4 of the 16 are Republican). And, we find every conservative social program most of us hold dear under attack because the Republican's spent like Democrats! Why do the Democrats get a "free pass?"
Obama is in "run-away" mode to distroy this country's economy and liberty's with a complacent, compliant Congress and a "cheer leading" media. I doubt if we will beable to turn this country around if he "breaks-the-bank" with his "universal health care"! 2010 is a long way away and 2012 may be a non-issue if ACORN and the White House continues to have control over the U.S. Census for 2010.
Liberterians have a "losing track record" in this country because of many of their "liberal" views on drugs and "hardline" stance on "tariffs" and "isolationism". Most Americans have never seen a political ad or read a brochure on what their party stands for; nor have they heard of their candidates. On-the-other-hand, Republicans are convinced they should follow Gen. Powell into the "Abyss". He is going around the country telling people the Republican party is too conservative, while voting for Obama on the basis of "color". (I wonder if we could get Cheney to speak for the DNC?) I have never understood why anyone ever thought Powell would have been a good candidate for the Republican party when he never stood behind one priciple he claimed they believed in.
I'm all for a "Conservative" party (hard to do if we can't even agree on a name) that will deleate the "Rockefeller" Republicans and include the "Blue Dog" Democrats and 2nd ammendment Libertarians. However, even for some of you "take-no-prisoner, one issue" voters there will have to be compromise to get things done, which will probably include more than a few "dope smokers"
and "Isolationist". Our form of government depends on having "checks and balances" of opposing views; when we have a "think tank" where all factions agree on every issue, we as citizens loose because of no debate. I don't read anywhere in history where Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Halmilton, and Thomas Payne agreed on much, but they areed that their country was more important than their independent issues.
You don't burn down the house to get rid of the rats. It looks like Obama is trying to destroy the country by pretending to save it. He has ordered the printing of a "trillion" dollars in worthless cash, government take over the auto industry, mortgage industry, and banking industry while campaigning for the latest polls to appear ever popular with the "common" man. I really can't imagine McCain doing any of the things that has occured in the first 100 days of Obama's presidency. Nor can I imagine anyone getting by with some of the most embarrassing diplomatic mistakes of this so called "intellectual" (ipod with my speechs anyone for the governors of the 57 states? The Queen has one), while apologizing for our nation's behavior to the muslim world.
Since when is it any party's turn to elect a Socialist with Islamic and Marxist training to represent "their turn" in power? The comparison of past Presidents to the one representing any political party "pales in comparison" with this radical! His soothing speeches may sound devine, but the truth of his words are as false as his intentions.
We have ourselves a "king" and we better decide whether we are going to be "subjects" or citizens by the time the next election rolls around. (According to the stats in the last election, we had 29% participate, I sure hope and pray we decide to participate a bit more vigorous in the next one!)
