Well, another four years have passed and it is now up to us, again, to select a leader. I was certainly much more excited about the 2004 election than I am now. McCain has not run an effective campaign in my opinion and as much as I hate to admit it, I’d be really surprised if the socialist Obama did not won the presidency.
McCain, as he always has, has been a bi-partisan Senator and has reached across the aisle on many occasions to pass legislation that he thought was right. I do admire him for that, but this campaign is not about bi-partisianship, it’s about a candidate working as hard as possible to win the race! I don’t think he did that this year.
Since I’m conceding the presidency to Obama, all I can hope for this election cycle is that the country doesn’t give super-majority status to the Democrats.
A filibuster-proof majority in Congress for the Democrats will be disastrous for this country.
If you look back at some of my comments about the 2004 election, I was much more hopeful about the country then. The Congress seemed to be moving forward on many issues, in the past eight years, and especially in the past four years, NOTHING substantial has emerged from our do nothing legislative branch.
My opinion, throw all the bums out of the Senate and House! Revert back to the paradigm of our founding fathers time when ordinary citizens were “called” to serve their country. They were not paid well, they wanted to get done with their business and return home. Most wanted to improve the position of the country, not look out for themselves.
It is truly a shame that government service has become an entitlement rather than a privilege and that so many have been corrupted by Washington politics. I just hope that we as citizens have the strength and intestinal fortitude to hold this next batch of servants accountable for their actions. If we don’t, I’m not confident that this country will prosper in the future.
True Reagan style conservatism is what is needed to rally those in this country that value those attributes. Until a true “Reaganite” comes to the forefront, the GOP will struggle to regain the Congressional seats that were lost in 2006 and 2008.