Posted by
conservativedude on Wednesday, November 19, 2008 3:34:17 AM
A lot of people talk about how this election was historic--and it was. A lot of people remind us many of the Republicans (along with Pelosi's congress)--but Republicans as well are to blame for the financial crisis and the fallout from the bailouts--and they are right.
The discontent (however founded or unfounded) with President Bush, the financial situation and various scandals and perceptions touted by the liberal mainstream media to sway the winds left aren't enough to turn this center-right country off the beaten path. Someone must've whipped up a pretty strong batch of Kool-aid this fall.
As much as I'd only like to blame the biased media, and unscrupulous politicians like Barney Frank, and Chuck "conservative thought is pornography" Schumer, we don't blame the gun manufacturers when a mail carrier goes postal. We blame the one who pulls the trigger. And on November 4th, millions of glossy-eyed voters pulled the triggers, and although they were swayed by all that malarky, it was still their choice to vote for liberals.
The reason was we wanted to be part of the solution--of the whole process, and with Barack Obama he made us feel like we were right there on the front lines of CHANGE in our own humdrum lives, thanks in part to all the kind cellphone providers and their text messaging services.
My experience with liberals is they like to self-flagellate because it makes them feel soo good. Granola hippies with their illegal odors and twigs in their hair love to live the "50 mile" diet, where they only eat locally, thus forcing them to eat yams all winter because it's soo good for the environment (just not for truckers or anyone's nutrition).
The laughable approach to recycling and saving the environment perpetuated by Al Gore, who flits around in private jets and cars that idle during his speaking engagements makes people feel soo good, even when the real work that has to be done isn't tackled in an honest, manageable way. The gun controls, the anti-Merry Christmas push, allowing doctors to perform dangerous abortions on underage girls without parental notification--the list goes on of things that make people feel soo good and politically correct and safe. But is feeling good in a drug-like euphoria of prideful self-ingratiation more important than true safety, liberty and accepting the reality of those many complex issues in the world?
Voters thought so. Since many already want to make a holiday for Obama and compare the president-elect prematurely to JFK, Lincoln and FDR--let's cut through it. They want Obama's New New Deal. Bigger government, less personal responsibility, voting for hopes and dreams instead of for pragmatic solutions and realism. Socialism and "spread the wealth around" are just the beginning.
They sold it to the American voters, and as Ann Coulter reminds us Democrats got over 50 percent of the vote for the first time in over 30 years. I'm sure that makes them feel soo good.
My question is: what happens when more and more middle class families and small business owners are robbed of larger chunks of their money to fund ridiculous programs, more bailouts and whatever Pelosi and Reid are fiendishly cooking up. What happens when health care is taken over by the government so hospital waiting rooms look more like packed food stamp depots or DMVs. What happens when you can't get the medical coverage you need.
I wonder how that'll feel.