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Originally Posted by CaptainHaplo
This "defeat" was needed - though I like most are not happy about it. The fact is the "republican" party has morphed into the "democrat lite" party, and that is why McCain actually started gaining when he picked Palin. She represents the core values that party success was built on.
The fact is that the party needed a defeat like this - not a mortal one - but a humiliating and decisive one. It forces us to "take our medicine" and fix what has been so wrong with the platform for the last 10 years. It was in 96 (maybe 94 or 98) I believe when the last "revolution" occured, thanks to Newt Gingrich. It was then we redefined and stood up for the foundation of what we believed, and in so doing we took over Congress for the first time in something like 40 years. Yet in the time since we have put up a president who was anything BUT conservative in his fiscal policies, as well as a candidate that had demonstrated he wanted to "compromise" more than the true core should accept.
Right now, Obama has 2 years to show real change. In that time, if things are not vastly improved, look for the Congress balance of power to start tipping back toward the right. When it does, it will make it even harder for him to push through truly left wing fringe policy from the bully pulpit. That means in 4 years, he will likely have little to show in real "change" that the American people look at positively. That will open the door for a revitalized and focused conservative leader to step up.
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In other words you expect miracles and wonders of him: you want him to clean up a mess and fix the damages done in the past 8 years, and while he is at it, he also should reduce state debts, fix the economy and the trade deficit, and give america back some good reputation in the world that in the past 8 years carelessly have been kicked into the dirt and sacrificed on the altar of extremist party ideology. Oh what a holy superman you want him to be - the calcuation behind it is easy, isn't it. Raise the demands to levels where the man necessarily must fail, and then declare him guilty of the mess
that he has found in the White house when he took it over. Giving him
just two years for all that must be the ultimate hurdle, then.
To compensate for the desaster of the Bush years, it will take AT LEAST both legislations Obama eventually can get. Destroying things is easy, rebuilding them usually takes much longer. But he is a very inspiring man, a thorough planner and listening thinker, and seem to have the ability to really motivate people, making them move and getting things done. That mixture eventually can work - if given the time needed.
If extremism like yours is shown by just enough people, it will be a guarantee that things will not turn better and the US will remain to be the world's number one problem. Which is ironic, because until not too long ago, just 8-12 years ago or so, it was seen as the world's number one problem solver.
I find this strange. You guys put your ideology and party above your country, like it or not. Even if Obama would establish hardcore republicanism, you would refuse him, simply becasue he has the wrong colour in his party emblem. but wasn't there signs and posters on McCain'S events saying "Country's first?" Okay, here is your chance to prove it.
Have the grandeur to move beyond ideological trench warfare. That is what unity of a nation is about. That is what "Country first" means. Listen to MacCains final appell when he admitted defeat -
in delivering that speech he found back to former style and noblesse for which I liked him a bit, once, before he accpeted to turn into a mud-throwing and often unfair campaigner. I really believe that he meant it serious what he said about Obama in that speech.