With all due respect to a fellow phillies fan, and I am not pouncing on you but I’ve seen this argument used several times on this and other threads but the “it could have been worse” argument really isn’t a strong one. Things could always be worse. I could be living out of cardboard box. I could have been born to ultra liberal parents. Fortunately that is not the case but that doesn’t mean things couldn’t be way better and I am constantly striving to make it so.
Absolutely correct. But, Reagan is dead. W was the guy elected. Sure he disappointed both of us but Gore would have been worse. That is fact. Now we have the Messiah. McCain is not my guy but elections have consequences. Conserv opposition simply has failed. It will not stop the security over freedom that we believe in Socialism will be rampant. When 4 million disappointed conservs did not, did not vote for John, that ended any, any Pub conserv chance for perhaps 4 terms to turn this around. The WSJ wrote last week, if SCHIP is passed, and it will be, then federal health care is in the cards for sure and the Pubs cannot stop it. That is fact. So of course W could have been , should have been, but he wasn’t. We got a faded look at a guy who protected the nation but failed to implement conserv ideals. This election past, simply eliminated those views for a generation. That too is fact since just where do you see opposition forming and groups talking a return to free enterprise democratic capitalism and a democratic-republican form of historical American government. I do not see it anywhere.