For all you youngsters out there....it looked a hell of a lot worse in 1976.
Four years later we got Ronald Reagan.
Buck up!
In 1976, Democrats gained one seat in the U.S. House and one seat in the U.S. Senate.
Point well taken
Dream on about getting another Reagan in four years if Hilabama is elected.
Yes, but every time the Dems are in power again in the House and Senate, they add more and more and more bureacracies and bureacrats all of whom are left-wing.
They create more and more useless government programs nobody can get rid of.
Things are different today, most notably demographics.
Blacks & Hispanics are going to vote rat no matter what, Look how crappy things are in the inner city, yet no matter how bad things are they still put one rat in after another.
Well, we are going to have even more Hispanics in the coming years, so another Republican Revolution like 1980 & 1994 will be impossible
Four years later we got Ronald Reagan.
Buck up!
It was bad in '64, too (see, I go way back). We ran a "true conservative" then and got clobbered. The party turned practical and went with Tricky Dick (moderate) and regained power. We lost in '76 with a moderate (Ford) and won in '80- with a "true conservative". The lesson? Depends on the candidate and the opposition. Johnston and the 'Rats were strong in '64 and were able to crush the "true conservative" Goldwater and a fractured GOP. Ford was weak in '76 against a weak but "new" face in Carter, who was able to eek out a win. Carter was weak in '80 with a fractured 'Rat party in bad times and Reagan was strong and optimistic. McCain is going top have to go against the grain to win. He can't allow himself to be painted as "Bush's third term" because that is immensely unpopular. If he can do that, and Obama starts to implode and makes a major gaffe (like McGovern in '72), he could pull it off.
The trouble is the damage the 'Rats do to the country in their four-year reign. In '64 we got the 89th Congress, LBJ in the WH, outvoted 2:1 in the House and 68-32 in the Senate. The result? The Great Society. We're still paying for this boondoggle today. In '76-'80 with Carter in the WH and a unified 'Rat Congress, what did we get? Gasoline shortages. 20% inflation, 10% unemployment, a "misery index" out of sight, decimation of our military, hostages and a revolution in Iran that still haunts us to this day. So, In short, we can't afford even four years of Obama. The stakes are too high. If he tries the appeasement route with Ahmadinijhad, we'll either be looking at a major city vaporized, or learn to speak Persian.