I’ll take a Jimmy Carter if it gets me a Ronald Reagan.
I turn on the television and all I see is Barack Obama. Crowds of cheering people waving their signs and clapping for Barack Obama. Everyone is rallying behind this Washington ‘outsider’ to bring in the change that America needs. Everyone sees hope in Obama when all I see is Jimmy Carter and I am okay with that.
Obama may get the support of Democrats and Independents and sweep Clinton in the primaries. He may even leave John McCain as confused as when he first crash landed into the jungles of North Vietnam when he wins the White House. All of this is fine. When the far left is done screwing around and the American people see the Democrat party for the socialists they, are a true conservative will emerge just like in 1980. I predicate that the conservative who will knock Barack from his high horse will be as far or even further to the right as Reagan. Why? Because after Obama’s socialist experiment goes absolutely nowhere, the American people will be looking for a strong return to good old fashion values just like after Jimmy Carter.
So keep waving those signs and get out the vote. Obama 08! Obama 08! Enjoy the pipe dream in 2008 because in 2012 Mr. Conservative is going to be there to wake you up.
WOW, i was just wondering where all the conservatives went.
This is a fine blog my friend + i agree with you!! http://www.progressiveu.org/061130-democrats-will-ruin-nations-security-...
Yes, we won't be involved with any wars, the economy will be doing well, everyone will have free health care, and then the democrats will get lazy and not vote for one election and another George W. Bush will come and screw everything up again. There's your good-ol'-fasioned values, my friend!
"Swimming with the status quo since 1988"
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"we won't be involved with any wars", you are right about that. Military spending would be cut. The very rich and government officials would give lip service to the healthcare system and go to Germany to see the doctors.
We would negotiate with terrorists who of course would have taken control of Afghanistan and Iraq, and would get up from our negotiation table and invade Israel.
Oh, yeah, he'll increase taxes for the "rich" except that "rich" would, of course, have been redefined to include the middle class. And since we all know the rich will hire the best accountants to do their taxes, and his impossible budget will have to be funded by something, we'll just increase taxes again.
If he's as good as Carter we'll have a 12% inflation rate, 21% interest rates+ a world run by terrorists.
But it's all good because real change has occured.
People would wake up and vote for a republican who would start trying to solve this problems. Then the liberals would start manipulating and the circle would just start over.
To see some younger people like myself, who don't worship the ground Obama walks on. While I think Obama is a good man, I think he is far to inexperienced and he doesn't really have a plan ("time for change" is not a plan, universal health care was Clinton's plan - sorry Obama). While I see nothing wrong with having a good man as the president, if thats all we are going on, nothing is going to be achieved.
You can call me naive, but I don't understand what the big deal about Obama is anyways. I also made a Jimmy Carter-Obama comparison in my blog yesterday. I am not sure that Obama will be able to create all the change that he speaks of, even if he gets elected.
I like your blog because it represents another viewpoint. All that I have heard about lately is Hiliary vs. Obama. I want to hear about the Republicans as well and basically, why not to vote for the Democrats after the Bush administration. Thanks for doing that.
~The Writer~
This is amazing.
Let's only pray you're right.
We all know Obama isn't good for much else anyway.
the problem is we cant handle another jimmy carter. at least right now
the next four years will determine whether we succeed or fail in iraq. if we get obama, he'll withdraw and all the progress we've made wont mean a thing. it'll become a nesting ground forviolence and terrorism. think about it. our economy will have gone to hell because we re on the border of a recession and obama will retardedly raise taxes. we wont have a tough stance against iran, so they may have built nuclear weapons, we will have socialized medicine, reducing the quality of life in america, iraq will have fallen apart, and we will still be struggling with massive illegal immigration.
these issues are far more consequential than anything we faced inthe 70s. on top of that, how can you be sure wed get a ronald reagan? reagan was a once in a generation kind of guy, in the image of fdr, teddy roosevelt, and lincoln. what republican can that be said of now? this guys not going to appear out of nowhere, hes going to have to be actively involved in politics right now. so who is he? because i dont see any reagans
plus remember. jimmy carter screwed up iran for us. and were still trying to deal with that problem today. can we really afford another jimmy carter?
Your post perfectly embodied my attitude towards the election, only I'm slightly more optimistic about Obama as President. Anyone's better than Hillary, right?