‘Tain’t A God We’re Electing Here
Is that the proper contraction for “It aint’” up there? I hope so.
Anyway, Rachel Lucas has some thoughts on Obama v. McCain in ‘08:
We’re done with Bush now and we’re getting a new president. And it’s probably going to be Obama because so many people who otherwise could prevent that outcome simply won’t do it because McCain doesn’t say what they want him to say about whatever their pet cause is. It doesn’t matter to these people that there is no “Reagan” waiting in the wings to take over after Obama pulls a Jimmy Carter on the country.I generally avoid saying much on this blog that I think would piss off or otherwise displease the bulk of my readers, but this is one case where I truly don’t give a shit because I genuinely believe that anyone who disagrees with me on this is flat-out wrong. I believe it with all of my heart and soul and I believe that history backs me up on it, and that emotion should have no place in a decision like this. I don’t give a flying fuck that McCain is more liberal than we would like and that he’s basically an asshole, because I’m operating with the awareness that he’s still better than Obama by about a hundred orders of magnitude.
Reading the whole thing is a good idea, but this is what got my gears turning.
LawDog’s already pointed out what little the POTUS is actually responsible for. It isn’t all that much. They’re not a god. They’re not a dictator. They do not control our government.
Maybe Obama will drop the ‘War on Terror’ if he’s elected. Honestly, what’s going to happen if he does that? Iraq and Afghanistan will continue to remain unstable. Big whoop. Terrorists don’t frighten me all that much. I stand a better chance of dieing in a car accident than I do meeting my demise at the hands of a suicide bomber.
Of course, given that I support Ron Paul that shouldn’t come as much of a surprise. I think the ‘War on Terror’ is a pointless endeavor, and good ‘ole police work is what’s needed there.
There is the whole matter of Supreme Court appointments though. I’ve given that some thought and you know what? Of the 9 sitting Justices 7 (seven!) of them are Republican appointees. None of the staunch conservative Justices are due to retire any time soon so I don’t see how we’d actually lose anything there.
Here’s what I want out of this election cycle: Gridlock.
We’ve seen what single-party domination of the federal government gives us: rampant spending. I hold no illusion that a Republican controlled government is going to be measurably better than a Democrat controlled one.
If the Republican party obtains a majority in either the House or the Senate, but not both, I couldn’t care less who gets the position of POTUS. If they obtain both then I hope that POTUS goes to Obama. If the Republicans don’t obtain a majority in either level of Congress and we get McCain that’s fine by me, but I’d actually prefer Republican control of one house in the legislature than relying on McCain to “gridlock” the Democrat controlled legislature.
If the Democrats retain control of the legislature and capture POTUS, well, we’re fucked, but that’d only last for 2 years. I suspect the Republican party would snap-back to their “small government” mantra if that happened and the Democrats would be kicked out of the legislature like they were in ‘94.