We all roll our eyes each and every time Obama and the Democrats repeatedly blame Bush for “the mess they’ve inherited.” Never mind that they’ve had absolute control for three years, never mind they had control of two whole branches of government up until recently. Nope, all our woes are Bush, Bush, Bush.
    They’ve been trying to label all Republicans as Bush since Bush was elected. That’s how Obama got elected – he was the anti-Bush. Clearly that resonated with a great many Americans, so much so that they ignored Obama’s very radical past and ideology. We chose the devil we didn’t know, versus the devil we did. Only to find out the obvious – um, dude, devils kinda suck. But sure enough, one Devil is still screaming, “It was the other guy! It was Bush, Bush, Bush!”

    Are we really prepared to give them more Bush ammunition?

    Let’s look at this honestly. You know they’re going to smear Perry as Bush 2.0. Hell, they’re already doing it! So let’s look at this objectively.

    Sure, at first glance, Perry has a great story to tell – Texas is responsible for most of the job growth as of late.
    But start to scratch the surface and you’ll see that in the midst of that, Perry also radically grew the size of Texas’ state government.

    After 8 years of Bush undeniably growing the size of our government, grassroots Republicans have been trying to reclaim their status as the party of small government, of fiscal balance, of personal responsibility. That’s what the Tea Party is all about.
    If you really believe in fiscal conservatism… then why are you going to support Perry? He grew government. Period. End of story.
    Don’t you think it’d look more than a wee bit hypocritical if Republicans went for another clear government-growing Republican?

    Please, Republicans, do not make the same mistake the Democrats made in nominating Barack Obama. Let’s not run from one proverbial devil, only to end up in the arms of another. Judge your candidate not by their words alone, but by their actions. Perry can claim he’s now a born again fiscal conservative until he’s blue in the face. But we both know his actions say otherwise. Are you really prepared for the implications of nominating him, only to be labeled the continual party of Bush, Bush, Bush? Are you really prepared, if he somehow gets elected, to deal with all the Bush Derangement Syndrome that’s sure to manifest itself with a vengeance?

    I don’t. I don’t think our country could take it, honestly. We all need a nominee who is NOT a polarizing figure. If they paint him as Bush 2.0, what could possibly be more polarizing than that?

    Add to that concern the recent evidence that Rick Perry isn’t exactly the most elegant or artful communicator. His recent comment that Ben Bernanke is “almost” guilty of treason clearly illustrates that he is not just guilty of being a loud-mouth, but it’s further evidence of his potentially polarizing nature. Ronald Reagan he most certainly is not.

    Like it or not, Republicans absolutely must get better at optics. If fiscal conservatism is to regain its foothold in the American consciousness, we all must improve our public relations skills. We all must better communicate our ideas, our intentions, and our beliefs.
    Otherwise the Democrats will continue to be successful in painting all fiscal conservatives as compassionless, obstructionist, heart-less barbarians. We know their charges are unfair, but how will the American people know it if we don’t know how to speak as effectively as possible?

    How could we possibly accomplish our goals if our chosen leader is as careless in his communication as Rick Perry?

    For those reasons at the very least, I simply cannot support Rick Perry. I wish more people would realize this as well. We can’t afford to look as if we haven’t learned our lesson from 8 years of Bush’s spending and growth of government.
    Do I think Bush is the devil the Democrats made him out to be? No. But do I think he grew government and started us on the path to unsustainable debt? It’s undeniable.
    We need to get off of that path right now! We can’t do that if we choose another leader who looks, sounds, and acts suspiciously like the last one.

    More candidate reviews will be published soon! In the mean time, what do you think? Share your thoughts! But please be as constructive, calm, considerate & kind as I know you are!

Considering everything that was on Obama’s side and everything that was against John McCain, it’s so important that we realize how very close this election was. Consider the following facts:

- Obama had $650 million dollars at his disposal. McCain stuck to public financing, which limited him to $84 million. Obama outspent McCain 5:1.

– The Mainstream Media. On the three network evening newscasts, 65% positive for Obama/Biden while coverage of McCain/Palin was 36%. Between the end of the primaries and the end of October, network news broadcast 84 stories criticizing McCain ads, but only 32% had a negative tone towards Obama. Obama appeared on over 50 magazine covers. As I showed you, he was granted 13 Time Magazine covers, compared to McCain’s 4.

- After the primary, Obama made a mad dash for the center. Once he was the Democratic nominee, he flip-flopped his way to the center. He was a radical leftist in moderate clothing, a la the Emperor and his new clothes.

After all of that, after all the outspending, media hype, and flip-flopping, that only just gave him the victory. Yes, he won by a fair margin with the electoral college, but if you look at the vote-for-vote count, it was very, very close. Obama won by pretty much the exact same margin that Bush won by in 2004. After all of that, it only bought Obama just over 62 million votes. He had to outspend McCain 5:1, he had the media in his back pocket, he flip-flopped his way to the center, and yet even then, he couldn’t win by a landslide. He did not win as the leftist he’s been throughout his career. He did not win as the Senate’s most liberal senator. He had to win by putting on a centrist costume and outspending the Republicans.

The Democrats are calling this a revolution. I hardly think so. We Americans are the center, we are not Nancy Pelosi, we are not Harry Reid. But in the same vein, we are also not Jerry Fallwell. We are not extremists! When considering everything it took to give Obama this victory, this does not change who we are and where the majority of us sit on the political landscape.
Please do not let the Democrats sway you, do not believe them when they try to convince you that moderate and conservative politics are over and done with. We are not dead, we were simply out spent, out maneuvered, and quite frankly, overwhelmed by the sheer size, scope, and wallet of Obama’s campaign.
In short, we can no longer afford to be the silent majority. We must get organized, we must prepare ourselves, we must change the way in which we approach the political landscape. But above all else, we must not be convinced to give up our principles. They may have overwhelmed us financially, but that does not mean we give up what we believe in. That does not mean we throw in the towel and become radical leftist socialists ourselves. It just means we’re going to have to speak up, stand up for what we believe in, and fight tooth and nail for the principles we believe in and the country that we love.

This nation has just elected another Jimmy Carter. But remember, it took Jimmy Carter to bring us Ronald Reagan.
Hold fast, everybody. It’s going to be a bumpy four years, but we can hold firm, we can stay strong, and we can stand up for what we believe in. It’s time to pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and keep on fighting.

It looks like I’ll be around for another four years, or however long it takes for the Berg lawsuit to finally prove Obama’s ineligibility, Obama’s impeached, or he’s run out of town by the Peggys of the country who will be so distraught when they find out Obama can’t wave a magic wand and magically fill up her gas tank and pay her mortgage. Let’s all cross our fingers that it’s the former, rather than the latter.

That said, I’ve been putting off writing this post. My mind has been a jumble of disappointment, heartache, and sheer astonishment. I apologize that this post will probably be disjointed, but I’m just going to let my thoughts spill out as they come to me.

I only caught a little bit of Obama’s victory speech, so I can’t really offer a reaction to the whole thing. But was the segment where he declared “Yes, we can” as the new national statement, with the crowd chanting it back at him, did anybody else think that was kinda creepy?

Unlike what the Democrats were hoping, Obama did not receive a mandate. This was a remarkably close race everywhere, which means he does not enjoy such a vast majority that he’ll be able to get away with radical left-of-the-left policies.

I am so incredibly, incredibly disappointed that the Democrats’ fraudulent primary, unimaginable amounts of money, and complete media manipulation has been vindicated. I believe this has set us so far back with regard to campaign reform that it’s absolutely sickening. I keep thinking about all the good that could have been done in this country with the three quarters of a billion dollars at Obama’s disposal during the campaign, it just makes my heart sink.

I’m just in absolute shock that we have a President Hussein.

Since we’ve just elected another Jimmy Carter, I’m rather interested to see if this will lead to another revolution within the Republican party two to four years from now. I really miss Reagan, so I’d be completely happy with a true Reagan successor bringing true honor, respect, and leadership back to the Republican party. I may not be a Republican, but I do believe they have a positive impact on this country and that their influence is needed to balance out the influence of the Democrats.

I am so, so, so, so relieved that enough Republican senators held on to their seats so that we can avoid a supermajority in the Senate. The House is pretty remarkably uneven, but at least the Senate isn’t beyond filibuster. Checks and balances are absolutely integral to our survival, so I am relieved that we have at least managed to retain a portion of that in our government.

President Hussein. Seriously.

I thought McCain’s concession speech was very respectable, eloquent, civilized, and well delivered. Above all else, no one can possibly claim that McCain ever sacrificed his dignity throughout this election. He has remained dignified, classy, and above all else, he was most certainly post-racial, which I believe is to be commended.

Okay, time for something horribly catty, but I just can’t help myself. What the hell was up with Michelle Obama’s dress!?! That was the most unflattering thing I think I have ever seen. It made her hips and behind look gigantic, the way it split up the color made her appear chopped off in unflattering ways, and that red. Holy crap, that splotch of red. Sorry, but it just looked like a blood splatter. She may be our next first lady, but Jackie Kennedy she most certainly is not. I really hope she can find herself a better stylist.

We better prepare ourselves for four gaffe-tastic years with Joe Biden as the VP, and the inevitable plethora of teleprompter-free moments with Obama. In the gaffe department, the two of them are going to make Dan Quayle look like an intellectual.

I’m still really curious to know how much of an influence ACORN and voter fraud in general had on this election.

Please, PUMA Democrats, do not give up on your fight now! Your party needs reform now more than ever. Please don’t give up, don’t let them to continue to walk all over you now that they have ultimate power, now that their behavior has been vindicated. Don’t give up, don’t give in!

I’m cheering for Philip J. Berg even harder now.

I cannot believe that we have elected a President who flat out would not qualify for an upper level security clearance. That boggles my mind.

Damn, my liberal brother is going to be insufferable during Thanksgiving.

My biggest hope is that we will somehow find a way to prevent the Democrats from instituting socialized medicine. If we cannot avoid this, I honestly have no clue what options I will have left. Where could I go on this Earth to avoid socialized medicine?

In other news, my desktop died today. Man, it was just a bad day all the way around.

Almost more than anything else, I feel so cheated that I cannot be thoroughly thrilled over the fact that we just elected the first African American President of the United States. I am so disappointed that I can’t be happy about this. Ever since I left that segregated first grade classroom all those years ago, I have been looking forward to the day when we could get beyond that bigotry and look up to a black President. But I am literally so disheartened that of all the African American presidents we could have had, we got him. Of all the brilliant, qualified, dignified, exceptional African Americans we could have had, we got Obama. We got a man with no experience, no credentials, no solid record, a plethora of questionable associates, and goodness knows what else.
And worst of all, if he fails spectacularly, if his leadership leaves us more vulnerable, more unstable, and more bitter, he will have made the climb to the Presidency that much harder for an African American leader who is qualified, who is exceptional, who is experienced, who is a good and proven leader. I really wish I could be happy about this historic day, but I can’t, because of who this leader is.

Lastly, President Obama is not my President. He will not be, unless by some miracle, he really can turn this country around without digging us deeper into the hell hole of socialism. Barring that, Barack Hussein Obama will never be my president. And that makes me so very sad indeed.

Please feel free to share your thoughts. I’ll probably add more as I continue to make sense of the thoughts whirling through my mind.

Considering the post I wrote earlier today, I was pleased when I stumbled across this great recording of a speech Ronald Reagan delivered in 1961 regarding socialized medicine. Everything he said then is just as pertinent today. It’s amazing to me how little we have learned in such a span of time. When will we realize that socialized medicine has not worked, does not work, and will never work? Only when we finally realize this will we ever be able to concentrate on finding a real solution to the real problem.

Damn, I miss that man.