Posted on 11/13/2002 12:33:46 PM PST by OldCorps
Here it is 11 Feb 2007 and you don't even realize how factual your words in this posting are. It's like traveling in time. You are so right.
Let me just put it this way ....when i posted that in 2002 I really did not see Pelosi as having a Garter snake's chance at a Pentecostal Revival function, but time has indeed proved me wrong. Pelosi is not only Speaker, but the Democrats have taken over the House and the Senate. If you dredge around FreeRepublic you'll even find some posts I made where I said Hillary's chances of winning the White House were not just improbable but UTTERLY impossible.
Nowadays I have strong (frightful) doubts about that statement, and if you gave me enough alcohol I might even let lose a statement alluding to the fact that she may very well be the most likely presidential winner amongst the people who have thrown in their hats as of now (from both sides).
One year ago (let alone 2002) I would never even have thought of such a thing.
Anyways, I will eat my crow, and I will chew it fine. Although I am taking this as a lesson - a lesson that a LOT can change in a few short years, and a lesson that even pigs can fly with the dexterity of a Swallow and the speed of a Peregrine! A lesson that nothing really is impossible. And a lesson that Hillary may actually become president of these United States of America.
Which is why I am grateful that you reminded me of that post i made in 2002. It is actually a veritable lesson in the ways of the world, if ever there was one.
And it is also a warning. That unless the Republican Party gets its game right, unless it stops being pulled either to the side of the Rinos or the side of the so called 'perfectionists' who have to have EVERY agenda met or they will not vote (personally I find such perfectionists worse than the Rinos), and unless The Party gets back to its conservative roots (and I mean fiscal, not just social while they spend like money was going out of fashion) ....unless that happens, then this country will have Hillary as president. And the thing is, we will probably deserve it. After all, if after several years of a Republican White House, a Republican Senate, and a Republican House, we were only left with a fat bill, then something is wrong.
Now, let me go feast on my crow. I'm kind of ravenous as it is.
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