The first time was bad. I considered it a mistake, a terrible mistake but deserved. McLame lost because he earned it.
The second time was terrible. One point is random, two is a trend and the trend is national insanity.
The impact on me has been like the death of a loved one.
The second point was just as much a non-choice as the first... in fact, I've come to believe the reason McCain was selected as the Republican candidate was (a) the democrats could win [i.e. handing them the victory], but even if that failed (b) John McCain's circumstances of birth could be used to weaken the Constitutional constraints on the Presidency anyway.
The Romney/Obama was much the same, but even more insidious [IMO] -- even if Romney had won (a) would there be any incentive for Republican congressmen to "hold his feet to the fire" [NO!], (b) would the ObamaCare waivers have done any good [No! They would be used to blackmail the states; "do what I say or I'll rescind your waiver."], and (c) Romney is a socialist (and statist) and would continue to strengthen/cultivate those tendencies in the executive branch.
My wife and I went on a vacation the day after.
We grieved for a nation that had so many people that no longer know how to think. The people who elected him are especially guilty because they were warned.
We didn't want to hear the mind-numbing stupidity of the reports about how the Eloi elected the Morlocks into power.
Some weeks back, I happened to run into a YouTube video of someone performing our national anthem. As I listened to it, all of the pain, disappointment, anger, worry, fear, and loss of these last five years, hit me all of a sudden, and I welled up like a baby. I got so choked up with sorrow over what's happened to my country, that I could barely contain myself.
The left has no idea what they're messing with. I know that, like me, millions upon millions of my fellow Americans are walking around with the same kinds of powerful emotions simmering just below the surface. I swear, they really don't want to push us to the point where those emotions burst forth into action. It will be the end of them.
Exactly my sentiment as well.
If 2014 doesn’t herald a massive political revolt against this leftist insanity, I’m permanantly quitting “caring” about politics.
There will be absolutlely nothing left to rescue (or possibly rescued) at that point. And I don’t hold out much hope such a revolution will occur.
The masses are simply too brain dead and apathetic. Well, I’ll be jumping in both feet into that pool of apathy; why fight it anymore, at that point?
There are simply too few who care anymore. And I’ve grown weary of trying to convince others of the growing tide.
The impact on me has been like the death of a loved one.
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That is precisely how I have described it numerous time. And the loved one is my country.