A Republic, if you can keep it…

Almost eight years ago, we elected a President who said he was going to reform the big government policies of the Clinton administration, keep us out of foreign entanglements, reform schools to improve performance, act as a uniter between the two major political parties and restore integrity to the office of the President. How’s that been workin’ out for ya?

In reality, George W. Bush did almost exactly the opposite on all of these promises, didn’t he? Acknowledging  that the attacks of 9/11 (because I certainly realize <i>that</i> was a game changer) made foreign entanglements a bit of a necessity, he still failed miserably in all of his other aims. And it wasn’t simply because of the partisan stooges that opposed him at every turn in the Congress, either. This President ran as a conservative. He said he was going to govern as a conservative. He quite simply did nothing of the sort. Leaving aside his partnering with Ted Kennedy on the No Child Left Behind Act as well as his inablity to veto the many wasteful, government-growing bills Congress sent him over the first six years of his two-term Presidency, look at his behavior recently. He pushed for the panic-driven, mortgage bailout in spite of the people’s opposition. He continues to present big government solutions to problems created by big government every day!

Now, in response to a President (and a Party) that has been nearly indistinguishable from the liberal Democrats, the GOP has presented John McCain as their candidate. In the face of a financial crisis that was caused by liberal Democrats, in spite of warnings from regulators and Republicans (who were demonized as racists, at the time), McCain proposes to buy up “those bad mortgages” with our tax dollars! This is his proud liberal, er, conservative solution! Leaving aside the question of what is a bad mortgage, why would a conservative pose a big government solution to a problem cause by big government? And, why doesn’t McCain tell the people the truth about this “crisis”? Well, partly because he wouldn’t know the  truth if it slapped him upside the head, but that’s another story.

Franklin Raines, Maxine Waters, Barney Franks and several other liberal Democrats, Leftist community organizations (ACORN, anyone?), and Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae employees caused this crisis over the past ten years or so, while calling anyone who opposed their schemes (to give bad loans to bad credit risks) racists. It is the banks that bought up these risky investments that are also to blame. They don’t have a thing to worry about, though, because McCain and the Republicans are just as willing to bail them out as their friends the Democrats. They want to follow the example of the European countries, (who, by the way, are in the same trouble as this country, despite much more stringent regulation-how could that be? I thought it was the Republicans pushing deregulation that caused this mess!) and slide this great nation towards socialism. Barack Obama is a perfect candidate for this position but McCain is a close second!

Imagine a candidate that told the truth. Imagine a candidate that, when faced with the obvious lies of the opposition, did not side-step towards the muddy middle, but attacked the wrong-headed ideologies of the Left with facts and figures. Imagine a party that had the best interests of this country at heart, instead of gaining or consolidating Power. Imagine a conservative candidate running for the Republicans. Now, realize that it won’t be happening any time soon.

As clearly dangerous as it seems, perhaps the best thing for this nation is a four year term for Barack Hussein Obama. Maybe after that debacle-if there is a nation left-we can elect the type of government we need.