American had to suffer with Carter before it was ready to vote for Reagan. Perhaps history is repeating itself.
DITTO. GOP loss will be good because I predict the Dem cure will be worst as taxcut is rolled back, border fence funding dismantled, assault rifle ban reinstated with additions and haggling with GWB which will embolden the enemy to attack free Iraq and US troops. In the meantime a new crop of GOP candidates will emerge and hopefully veer back to the conservative course on spending, border, tax cuts and etc.
Yeah, but Carter was Nixon's fault. Without the stupidity of Watergate, the GOP doesn't get squashed in Congress in 1974 AND Governor Reagan easily beats a VP Ford (as VP, he wouldn't have the power to do to Reagan what he did as President) and then the Dem (I doubt that Carter gets the nomination without Watergate) to become President in 1976.
I was thinking pretty much the same, but not aloud. None of us want further harm to befall the country, but it would be folly not to realize that the country still hasn't "got it".
Perhaps we will retain either the House or the Senate. Perhaps we will lose both. No way to tell when the media has taken a blood oath to resist conservative reform, and still holds the propaganda weapons to make good on that oath.
Itis pretty much out of the individual voter's hand now. Fortunately, it won't be long now until we see what the future brings.
Terrible as this is to say, perhaps the masses of voters need a chance to elect those wonderful Democrats who will save the economy from it's terrible resurgence, sit and reason with the intellectual Al Quaida, and care enough to enact new federal programs to forbid inclement weather.
Maybe that is what is fated, and we truly need as a nation to have our heads thoroughly beaten into the cement before the survivors finally collectively realize that life is real, and that the only reason we managed to forget that for so long is that several generations before us paid such a huge price to hand us the birthright... which we are eagerly trading for Free Stuff.
A new history, perhaps, but still, as you noted, a repetition. Hopefully we won't have spent all of our remaining national capital, before the idea of Free Stuff finally presents its invoice, and people begin to understand.
"American had to suffer with Carter before it was ready to vote for Reagan. Perhaps history is repeating itself."
I don't think we have the margin for error that we did with Jimmah. I think that if the Dems get back in the power the kind of suffering the American people will get will be that which will shock our population as never before and the US might not get back on its feet for a long time.