I'll admit, I'm disappointed as hell, but I'm going to resist the urge to rant and whine about it. I'll leave that to the many people who are probably going to be sorry as hell they voted the way they did in this election, once they see the result of the lock on power of the Washington Democrats. They deserve everything they are going to get from their ill-advised actions. You think the Republicans were bad? Well, so did I, but believe me-you ain't seen nothing yet.
My prediction as of now, which is of course tentative and dependent on a lot of unknowable variables-
In 2012 the Republican nominee will be Mitt Romney. His VP nominee-current Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal. Will they win? That too depends on a lot of variables.
Romney's main rivals for the nomination will be Mike Huckabee, who will not do nearly as good as he did this last time around, and Charlie Crist of Florida, who just won't play well on the national stage. There are no others with the backing, influence, or with sufficient name recognition, at least not in a positive way, who will be able to stand up to Romney. Huckabee will win a few Southern states, but that's all. Romney will pick Jindal, who will bring the entirety of the South back to the Republican fold.
Romney's main appeal will be his business acumen and his economic conservative credentials. Jindal will bring aboard the social conservatives, just like Sarah Palin did this time around, only possibly even more so. After four years of Obama, social conservatives won't have a problem with Romney's Mormon religion, and what ones that do will be more than placated by the pick of Jindal. Together, they will also appeal to a broad spectrum of independent voters, and maybe a significant number of Democratic voters as well.
As for Palin, all the people who are now dreaming of a Palin candidacy are deluding themselves. She doesn't have the backing it takes to headline a national campaign. In fact, she has made too many enemies among the elites of the Republican Party. Men like George Will and others like him didn't dislike her because she was a typical country club Republican, after all.
You will of course see more of her. After she finishes her term as governor, and perhaps follows that up with a second term, you can expect to see her as Senator from Alaska, a position from which she will over time exercise considerable influence.
The way I look at it, the country's loss is Alaska's gain. Her popularity wasn't in the eighty-plus percent range because she was folksy. Had she left Alaska, the state might well have become mired once more in the petty and corrupt backroom politics that had established such a stranglehold over the state. Since it seems she will have more time there now, hopefully she can cultivate an established political culture of integrity that will be of lasting duration on the affairs of her state. That can only be to their benefit.
As for the country and the direction in which it is probably going-well, I've got more important things to think about. Just remember-I didn't do it.
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I'm mad, but not really at anyone on the left or in Obama's media choir.
I'm mad at people who couldn't stop trying to re-fight the GOP primaries after McCain clenched the delegate count for the nomination. People who want to call themselves conservatives but did their damnednest to attack and sabotage McCain even when they knew his opponent would be ultimately either one of the two leftists, Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.
People like Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter, who probably have their next best-selling "President [copy and paste Democrat candidate's name here] sucks" novella in the can.
I think you'd better save some of your anger for McCain, who gave us all plenty of reason to dislike him, even going on up well past the Republican convention, on into the debates. I don't know about Limbaugh, as I never listen to him anyway, but I know for a fact that Ann Coulter has done yeoman's work at tearing into the facade of the Obama Machine and getting the word out on the more unsavory aspects of his past, record, and associations. She did a hell of a lot more than the major network news organizations did.
In fact, if you want to really get right down to the nitty-gritty, she did a hell of a lot more than MCCAIN did. So your anger at her, for one, is misplaced.
Sure, she opposed McCain for a long time, as did others, but look at some of the reasons for that. McCain said and did things to depress his own voters, in every meaning of the word "depress".
People just didn't buy his bi-partisan act. It never played well with conservative Republicans, and it never mattered to liberal Democrats.
Maybe in another year, under a different set of circumstances, "Democratic Party Lite" might be an acceptable brand of Republican candidate, but not this year.
Now all that McCain has to show for his troubles is a few extra years to commiserate with his "dear beloved friend, the Lion of the Senate", who I am more than sure he will on way too many occassions join in "reaching across the aisle to get things done for the American people."
Yes. It was very maverick of McCain to fellate the Senator that translated the actual text of captured Nazi Weapons Law legislation into the 1968 Gun Control Act.
But, instead of a President that said a few nice things about the barely remaining vestige of the pro-Nazi Kennedy bootlegger dynasty, we'll have a Nazi President for reals.
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