Kipling @ 102:
The claim that Bush and the GOP went astray engenders as much sympathy as the Vatican’s claim that abusive priests abandoned their catholic principles. The people in charge let it happen because they were careless, indifferent, greedy or all three. None inspire desire to let them take the reins again does it?
But its a bit academic: the GOP has no one to put up against Obama. And its almost 2010!
McCain would have done little different: he has no conservative bone in his body; even his cartiledge is iffy; he would have been swayed by the panic and done what Obama has done. His vote for Mccain-Feingold shows he is all in favor of government meddling. His campaign was a pathetic exercise in no principles at all. His best moment was congratulating Obama.
The US may have to endure inflation (from all that printed money), wage price controls, shortages, continued sluggishness, high taxes, and a more intrusive government (courtesy of those who outed the NSA spying on terrorists), all because the GOP forgot what it or anything else stood for. Maybe that’ll drive voters back to the GOP. Then again, we may be so deep inot things then, it may prove impossible to undo what Obama does. Like unionized state employees, some “advances” just are too hard to prune back.
The voters may be cooling a tiny bit on Obama but they’ll cut him enough slack for a long while: they remember what it was like when he was elected. I think most people see him as doing the best he can.
