This blog may be rambling because my mind is still trying to clear itself after the election. I am very competitive and am a poor loser (even when I compete vicariously through someone else), so here are some random thoughts:
- I believe in this democracy and therefore feel we need to stand behind our new President and give him a chance.
- Obama's first appointment was to make Rahm Emanuel his Chief of Staff. Emanuel is a left wing "tough guy" from the Clinton administration, but also has a reputation for being fiscally conservative so he may be a "buffer" against all of the Democrats proposed spending. He is also a devout Jew whose father fought for the Israeli resistance before the founding of Israel. This appointment by Obama certainly will raise some eyebrows in the Muslim community.
- The stock market in the two days after the election had the largest post-election decline in history, and many experts say the market predicts the future. The market seems to be moving up and down on emotion and the possibility that Obama may raise taxes across the board. Let's hope some of his top economic advisers will convince him that to raise taxes now would be a death blow to the US economy.
- John McCain had his "chance" - how he ever became the Republican candidate still amazes me; I guess Republican voters in the primaries wanted to give him a "lifetime achievement award". He ran the worse campaign I have seen in my lifetime, so let's hope he will fade into the sunset and some young vibrant Conservatives will take the helm and get the ship back on course. No more chances for McCain or his RINO associates "my friends". Ironically, McCain's best speech of the campaign was his concession speech.
- Sarah Palin was attacked viciously during the campaign and now is even being attacked by members of the McCain campaign. Maybe she did stumble a few times during the campaign, and she did not have the depth of experience of a Joe Biden, but had she been running head-to-head against Biden she would have destroyed him. She was thrust into a situation that most of us could never handle. So she will go back to Alaska, continue with her responsibilities as governor and I believe she will have her chance again.
- The "green" movement took a big hit in this election. Almost every green initiative in the country was defeated. Not because people are anti- environment, they are starting to realize we just cannot keep spending money we do not have.
- During the next few months you will see thousands of people lose their jobs because of the failing economy. Watch closely - how many of these lost jobs will be government employees? Very few - and if Obama follows through with all of his "large government" promises, while the productive private sector in this country is cutting jobs the government will probably be hiring.
So in closing, those Conservatives out there do not lose hope. Our movement may be dormant for a while but only to regroup. We need to get rid of the "moderate" dinosaurs in our party and go back to our principles. Conservatism never grows old and it will never die. The Soviet Union tried to kill it, China has tried to kill it, but it remains alive. You cannot kill the basic human desire for individual freedom.
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Get rid of the "moderates" in the Republican party? Why do you think Obama and Democrats in general won a landslide this time? Because of many reasons, certainly, but not least of which is the fact that people were tired of the ultra right wing social agenda of the GOP. I'm all in favor of fiscal conservatism, but if the GOP tries to cling to its very conservative social principles, it will not take long for the party to fade away into the sunset.
p.s. Palin was a disaster all around. It's surprising she even became governor; I can't believe I'm hearing whisperings of her running for president in 2012. She's unelectable.
Let Obama get a chance and be loyal to the elected president, as you say. From a European standpoint, he is far to the right to our rightwinged. Democarcy has a different meaning here and in your country. As aconservative all my life I feel that the problems we see in the economics is not due to the result of the election,but how the existing gowernment has acted over the last two periods.
McCain lost big because of the war, the financial collapse (caused by the Democrats) and BECAUSE he is the most moderate Republican we had. If people are tired of the social agenda of the Conservatives, why was Gay Marriage voted down in all states where there was an initiative? I don't have a strong position on that issue, but American voters certainly did.
I don't have a strong position on abortion either, but it always seemed funny to me that liberals are against the death penalty but do not have a problem with killing a million babies a year.
Why were all the "green" initiatives voted down. Your so-called "moderate" voters should have loved those propositions.
When everyone sees their taxes go up, and inflation goes to 10% and unemployment goes to 10%, and small business owners find it difficult run their companies, we'll see how many "moderates" there are out there.
And I didn't say Palin should run for President, but for what she has done in her young life, she is not the "dummy" the East Coast elites think she is.
Moderates always lose it for the Republican party, and the Republicans can't seem to look at history and figure that out. I swear they are determined to lose! That's why we joined the Conservative party (for what it's worth to make a statement to the Republicans). The Democrats always campaign as moderates or even conservatives and the people believe it! Rather than look at the ultra liberal records, they listen to speeches. So you have moderate speech vs. moderate speech (in general) and the ignorant masses vote for "change".
As far as Palin goes, anyone who believes that she is stupid and "unqualified" is extremely naive.....to be listening to the insiders who have much to lose if they are booted from their seat of power from any outsider with a 'big mouth'! Consider your sources!! Another Reaganesque figure is hugely threatening to the ones who would love to continue to control the reins of power.
My summary? The Left is cunning.... and wrong. The Republican party is run by idiots. Conservatism wins. This election was decided by the result of years of socialist education. (a great topic of its own...let's go there!). The alternative media is an amazing force, and is a very serious threat to DC insiders.
Thanks for the soapbox opportunity :)
If you're going to point out the hypocrisy of anti-death-penalty liberals who "do not have a problem with killing a million babies a year," be equitable and call out the hypocritical conservatives who are rabidly "pro-life" -- but have no problem with the death penalty. If human life is "sacred," then who are we to say which life is sacred and which isn't? "Judge not, lest ye be judged"?
As for Linda's "Reaganesque" comment, she seems like an intelligent gal, so I'm going to assume she wasn't using that adjective to refer to Palin.
Hi guys! I'm baaack :)
Two things......I am a "hypocritical"? conservative who is "rabidly"? pro-life and for the death penalty. The difference is elementary when you think about it. Babies are innocent. The death penalty is just that....a penalty for crime by a person of the age of accountability. I have never understood the controversy here, but would be happy to have it clarified for me, in a cordial spirit of deeper thinking :)
Secondly, what, is Palin not like Reagan in her policies and opinions? I thought she was.
Again, thanks for the forum!
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