The good news is that since the Left wishes to destroy Liberty, enlarge government, and is overtly corrupt, the wheel will turn again.
But I'm coming around to the view (mostly for my own mental health) that it's time to take our medicine for the failures of 1995-99 (never mind the catastrophe of "compassionate" conservatism), purge the movement, allow new and better leaders to emerge, and TEACH TEACH TEACH incessantly as the Left in power reveals what it's all about.
Trying to rally behind McCain is just too much like banging a square peg into a round hole. I don't dislike him like a lot of others here, and I think he's vastly superior to Obama. I'm going to vote for him.
But putting the right people in power requires mass mobilization and passion, and McCain is not the One to deliver.
I know you as a thoughtful poster and I respect your views.
However, I disagree with you here. Just one example: LBJ was in office a little more than four years and we will NEVER be rid of the Great Society/War on Poverty. NEVER.
All we can ever hope to do is “reform” it here and there.
My point is that, see my tagline, YOU NEVER WIN BY LOSING.
You can never teach enough or any of that to overcome the gains the Left will be making PERMANENT in that time.
Doesn’t matter what the score is, we must never surrender ground. We must keep fighting.
You are reasonable enough to realize that it’s important to defeat Obambi, and that means voting for McCain.
Others are not smart enough, apparently, or perhaps too guided by emotion to make that connection. That’s what will hand the election to Obambi, if that sad event for our nation occurs.
And that’s why all this whining is pernicious. It leads the emotionally susceptible away from the conclusion that, regardless, Obambi must be defeated and that requires each person exercising his personal responsibility to help defeat Obambi by voting for McCain.
“Teaching?” It never ends. Like now. We need to teach (ourselves) that, whether you have to play offense or defense, you vote to salvage what you can for the country, not to “make a statement in protest” that hands the country over to someone like Obambi and the Rats.