What we need to save this country:
The Republican Party has strayed from its values. We no longer stand for the little man. The Pseudo-Republicans in Washington have buckled to greed and corruption. The past years have shown this the best.
Once champions of smaller government Republicans championed lower taxes and less government spending. Yet, lobbyists have taken our politicians. In the past a representative was supposed to have thought about his people more than his wallet. These days are over as well. Conservatives need to take the occurrences of last night as a warning sign of things to come. We must push our representitives to once again champion retrenchment. Never before would a massive bailout have been signed like the $700 Billion dollar one. First, they would have fixed the problem before even fathoming selling the future of their children. But, they did not and look what it has cost them. They are not down 54 to 44 in Senate seats and have lost a substancial amount of Representative seats.
Hopefully, we take the next two years to do some soul searching. We need to return to our values that made the American people trust us in the way they did during the Reagan years. In two years we must regain our Senate seats and house seats but in the mean time we must support our President Barack Obama. This is one thing I urge of any reader. Leave all of your election vengence behind. We, as a whole, have not supported President Bush. Many have wished him harm and bad luck. Writers for the Daily Kos have called him Hitler and stupid. We must be better than them. As John McCain said last night, “I will support my President.” We don’t need to agree with him, but we must wish him luck and support him.
Many Americans saw last night as a time for change. I wish the change had been a different one. While many Americans trusted Obama with this change, I trusted McCain to bring this change. Regardless we must look ahead and hope that these four years will be better than the last.
Good Luck Obama.
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November 5, 2008 at 6:30 pm
Bill, I’m very proud that you have chosen to at least give our president-elect a chance. I am sorry about the personal disappointment last night may have caused you, and am glad that you took this day to come to terms with the results and their implications. Do not let a certain misinformed Democrat’s gloating get you down. Hopefully all will be well for America, and I hope that other citizens may prove as open, thoughtful, and truly patriotic as you.
November 6, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Ben, I will give him a chance, but don’t expect me not to criticize him. In fact, it is our civic duty to scrutinize our chosen representatives if not they will fall into the same path that they have in the past. A political system where the will of the people has no say is a dictatorship. In reality, I will probably not agree with Obama on 95% of the issues, but I will refrain from direct attacks on the man’s character and brain. These only make our country weak. Obama ran a great campaign and rallied many people to the polls. You must respect that.
November 7, 2008 at 6:47 pm
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. – Thomas Jefferson
There, I hope that outweighs in your mind the fact that I can also quote Putin.