Honestly? I’m a bit relieved.
Just like the rest of my readers, I was disillusioned that America picked Barack Obama initially. I was in a bit of a funk for a day or so, but the feeling went away by the weekend. I was surprised myself at how quickly I recovered. Today I figured out why – thanks to Michelle Malkin.
She writes “Heckuva Job, MacLame” criticizing McCain for his weak response to the complaining and absolutely untrue stories about Sarah Palin from his former campaign staff. While reading it, I realized that after eight years of making excuses for George Bush’s weaknesses on issues other than national security, I’m just tired of defending “our guys”. I know that everyday I’d have to write about the silver lining in the countless clouds McCain would’ve sent our way and I’m just tired of it.
Now, I know that’s pretty selfish, putting my own personal well-being ahead of the country’s, but after searching for those silver linings in George Bush’s clouds, I guess I’ve finally been able to identify my own silver linings. It’s going to be so much easier to be like the moonbats and just complain about every other word that comes out of Obama’s mouth for the next four years.
We got rid of a lot of dead wood in the Republican Party over the last few years and some of the cream has risen to the top. We had a chance to purge a lot of the idiots who thought that we elected them to act like Democrats. New blood has replaced the old guard (who lost sight of how they seized Congress in 1994) and our future, as a Conservative Party is actually brighter than it was in 2004.
John McCain would have been a fine president and I don’t mind that I supported him and voted for him. He was the better choice, relatively speaking. But watching him weakly defend Palin on Leno, his refusal to use blatantly illegal behavior by Obama and his campaign against them, his refusal to use Obama’s relationships against him all just convinced me that I’ll be better off, mental health-wise than I would have been otherwise.
The Republicans will be in a much better position after four years of the affirmative action presidency, we won’t have to worry about the Clintons (who’ve been effectively bannished from presidential elections) and some real conservatives have stepped forward. I’m worried about the country economically and about our national security, but we’ve recovered from worse in the past.
As always, I remain an optimist about the American people, and now I can just be a critic instead of an apologist. It’s kind of liberating.
Category: Politics
>>It’s kind of liberating
Isn’t it? The trouble is, I don’t think they’re capable of learning from the inevitable. The Messiah will either flameout spectacularly in his attempted, er, changes due to massive resistance, or he’ll pull his head out of his idealistic ass to discover he really can’t change everything he thinks he can without causing major problems. Either way the Leftards who so very enthusiastically support him now are not going to learn from it. If they reached adult/parenthood without shedding their liberal ways then there’s no hope for them.
Jonn wrote: But if you think about what the Republican Party would have “learned” if McCain had won, we’re much better off this way…in the long run.
Great post, Jonn! I’m not sorry about supporting the McCain/Palin ticket, but there needs to be a general house-cleaning in the Republican Party and they (the RNC) has hopefully learned that whenever they try to be “Deomocrat-lite” they loose the election and whenever they stick with their conservative base and philosophy, they win by landslides. The lesson is, don’t compromise your beliefs!
My blogging partner, phantomlord, is a staunch conservative Republican and he refused to vote for John McCain (although he liked Sarah Palin) and so did another staunch conservative that participates on our blog. I’ve been hearing that 20% of conservatives voted for Obama and many Republicans stayed home rather than vote between a Democratic Socialist and Democrat-lite. IMO, in order to rejuvenate the Republican Party, the RNC needs to return to their conservative base.
I see what you are saying, and yet, the next four years scare me.
I’d really like to see Obama give Hillary a cabinet post, something unimportant like Postmaster General, just to get her out of the Senate.
Yeahhhh… ‘McLame’!
Now, please read this link. And maybe we can set to work on some unfinished business!
It ain’t all over yet!!!!!
Does that sound good, or what?!?
The Phoenix
Damn! What am I doing wrong?!?
Every time I put something in the ‘name slot’ in Comments here – Clicking on it, takes me to a page which says no such blog exists.
And it most certainly does exist!
The Phoenix
Jonn wrote: Well, you keep spelling “phoenix” “pheonix” in the url. I fixed it last week, but you did it again today.
My feelings exactly – I knew McCain would give me heartburn, especially with his anti-ANWR stance and global warming garbage – he was running for president in the B party – Bipartisan. Not so many voters in that one. Most of us have political leanings.
Sarah Palin was the vote getter. How many tshirts and bumperstickers said “I’m voting for Sarah and that old white guy running with her”… etc? She drew the crowds – and that’s why the media set out to destroy her.
I told my kids this week that now I can comfortably go back to loathing McCain. He’ll be the first to compromise under Obama, so he can get ‘media’s darling republican’ status back again.
And yes I voted, donated, and worked weeks for him.
That just says how scary Obama is.
I said when McCain was nominated by the GOP that he could not win. Moderate republicans like Dole and Ford and McCain are losers.
Hopefully the moderates in the party will now sit down and shut up; too bad they are the ones now blaming Palin for the defeat.
Great post, Jonn. Thanks!
>>Jonn wrote: But if you think about what the Republican Party would have “learned” if McCain had won, we’re much better off this way…in the long run.
In the words of Mr. Frank “Wahoo” Waturi, “I’m not arguing that with you.” This way the Lib voters might learn something, when the Bread/Circuses Committee goes bankrupt, but the movers and shakers still never will.
Affirmative Action presidency? Isn’t that a tad bit harsh? It seems to me Obama did an amazing job just getting the nomination over Hillary. I certainly don’t think he was given preference even within his own party.
I’m proud of John McCain the man, the war veteran. My pride in the tone and temerity of his campaign is less enthusiastic. I like Sarah Palin as a woman and hope she continues to pursue her political goals. I did not feel she was an appropriate selection for VP, and I do NOT feel she was railroaded by liberal media. The coverage of her was no more sexist than that to Clinton. She simply was poorly versed in American History, American foreign policy, economics, etc. and it was evident in her answers, not only to the few liberal media outlets she spoke, but even to the conservative outlets. I was disappointed that here answers were circular in nature, not really showing depth of knowledge on the questions asked of her. I have NO doubts she is an intelligent, capable governor, deserving of her popularity ratings in Alaska, but she is still lacking in what’s needed in the party for the national stage. It’s going to take more than “aw shucks” amiability to reach the masses of American’s she’d need to win higher office. I WANT to vote for her! But she’d be better served brushing up on things we learn as middle schoolers and are refreshed on in highschool and college. I don’t pray for Obama to fail. I hope he will be successful. Like it or not, he inherits a deficit that Clinton didn’t leave us. It was created by this administration, a GOP majority, and continually grows with this war in Iraq. Support it or not, the war and the GOP, and weak willed Dems, have nearly bankrupt this nation.
Avalon Blues, You seemed to have bought into the image that the MSM tried to paint Gov. Palin as, and you and the MSM couldn’t be any further from the truth. Gov. Palin accomplished quite a bit in her two years as Governor of Alaska. Here’s a list of Gov. Palin’s accomplishments, courtesy of http://www.unbalancedlibra.com: As governor, Sarah Palin’s list of accomplishments lengthened rapidly. She used her line-item veto to cut $268 million from Alaska’s state budget. She stood up to some of Alaska’s most entrenched interests, including three big oil companies (BP, ConocoPhilips, and ExxonMobil) who hold the lease rights to much of Alaska’s oil and gas wealth: Once in office, Palin took an aggressive stance toward the oil companies. Her nickname from high-school basketball, “Sarah Barracuda,” was resurrected in the press. Early in her term, she shocked oil lobbyists when she was so bold as to not show up when Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson came to Juneau to meet with her. Palin, after scrapping Murkowski’s deal, would not give Big Oil the terms they wanted, yet insisted that the companies still had an obligation under their lease to deliver gas to whatever pipeline Alaska built. She invited the oil companies to place open bids to build a pipeline, but they refused. A bid by TransCanada, North America’s largest pipeline builder, was approved by the legislature in August. Palin also raised taxes on oil companies after Murkowski’s previous tax regime produced falling revenues in 2007, despite skyrocketing oil prices. Alaska now has some of the highest resource taxes in the world. Alaska’s oil tax revenues are expected to be about $10 billion in 2008, twice those of previous year. BP says about half its oil revenues now go to taxes, when royalty payments to the state are included. Recently, Palin approved gas tax relief for Alaskans, and paid every resident $1,200 to help ease their fuel-price burden. Some other Palin accomplishments include supporting and signing an ethics bill passed by the Alaska legislature and creating the Alaska Health Strategies Planning Council to find innovative solutions to effectively provide access… Read more »
Either you are in denial, or you are right. I hope the latter, for all our sakes. But, yes, you are right that it’s more the fault of “our guys” who tried more to be like them than like we wanted them to be. I just hope 4 years of this clown will force the real leaders to step out and start leading, if they are there at all.
Apologies Jonn, and thank you.
I can’t access any click-able links to email addys on the Net. So even if you have one, I can’t use it. But you have mine. Would you please contact me. I have a question… [And _not_ on my lack of Net expertise] TIA.
Jonn observed: It’s kind of liberating.
While I appreciate your over-all optimism I’m less than comfortable with the certainty that the ‘loyal opposition’ will be allowed to flourish.
We’ll see… Obama is apt to be a quickly moving target.
Whereof what’s past is prologue; what to come,
In yours and my discharge.
You right wing nuts repulse me. Even after eight years of incompetent behavior by the grand-poobah wingnut chief commadoof you continue to bleed for what you cannot have since the civil war, respect. The fact that the republican party even in 1864 was considered ” the lunatic fringe” is a mere footnote to what you have become.
Your pedantic whining remains maggot fodder and feeble minded. You want to be the big cheeze? Pull up your pants and skirts and do whats best for the country instead of your self serving values, which by the way DON’T EXIST! The liberals got nothing on you, you self righteous, pious no nothings. Choke on your own sweet bilious preaching.
James Says: The fact that the republican party even in 1864 was considered ” the lunatic fringe” is a mere footnote to what you have become. You seem to be the product of government schools and have no idea of what you’re posting about, no sense of history. Contrary to your rantings, the Republican Party was the party of Lincoln, FYI he’s the President who signed into law, the Emancipation proclamation, freeing the slaves, much to the dismay of the Democratic Party, who opposed this measure. Here’s some history you need to pay attention to, from Frances Rice of the National Black Republican Association: Why Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican By Frances Rice It should come as no surprise that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican. In that era, almost all black Americans were Republicans. Why? From its founding in 1854 as the anti-slavery party until today, the Republican Party has championed freedom and civil rights for blacks. And as one pundit so succinctly stated, the Democrat Party is as it always has been, the party of the four S’s: Slavery, Secession, Segregation and now Socialism. It was the Democrats who fought to keep blacks in slavery and passed the discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws. The Democrats started the Ku Klux Klan to lynch and terrorize blacks. The Democrats fought to prevent the passage of every civil rights law beginning with the civil rights laws of the 1860’s, and continuing with the civil rights laws of the 1950’s and 1960’s. During the civil rights era of the 1960’s, Dr. King was fighting the Democrats who stood in the school house doors, turned skin-burning fire hoses on blacks and let loose vicious dogs. It was Republican President Dwight Eisenhower who pushed to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and sent troops to Arkansas to desegregate schools. President Eisenhower also appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the U.S. Supreme Court which resulted in the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision ending school segregation. Much is made of Democrat President Harry Truman’s issuing an Executive… Read more »
On Nov 5th I consoled myself by saying “well, at least it isn’t Billary,” but little did I know how close that was to the truth. At the rate Obama is going, by January 20th Bill and Hillary will be the only remnants of the Clinton administration that aren’t back in office.
I’m not even going to bother responding to James’s strawman attacks – libs just don’t get the fact that we find their ranting and name calling so humorous. Is Soros still paying these guys to be out astroturfing? I’d have thought they’d have all been tossed under the bus by now.
That said, King Barack Hussein will never be my president, and I will never refer to him as anything other than BO, or King Barack Hussein.
You can always tell the libs and RINOs when the subject of Sarah Palin comes up. They can never avoid showing their outright hatred towards Sarah Palin, or offering dozens of suggestions for ways she needs to “fix herself” before being a “viable candidate”.
My reaction to all of those people – GO.FUCK.YOURSELVES. Sarah is exactly what she is, and we are exactly what we are, and we love her for it. Stop trying to “fix” her. Stop trying to fix us. Try fixing yourself instead. Oprah has a great show for those that have self esteem problems and can’t accept others as they are, and she’s so politically neutral and all.
Liberals… What’s “best for the country” would be to have elitist liberal idiots like you be not be allowed to vote until you’ve grown up. Stop trying to change things that aren’t broken – it always makes things worse. But that is a lesson that comes with experience. Knowledge is not wisdom, and that is NOT a distinction without a difference.