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FirmhandKY -> RE: The thrill is gone (9/11/2012 6:53:18 PM)
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FR:
Ok, Rich, I'll bite ...
I'm not sure what the popular vote will be, exactly, but I'm pretty certain that Romney is going to win this easily, perhaps up to a Reagan landslide proportions.
Truthfully, I'm more concerned about the Senate, than the Presidency.
And, in a way (the long historical point of view way), I can't say that I'm too worried even if Obama does get re-elected.
One of the questions I asked several times here, at about the year mark of Obama's Presidency was "When does he own it?". All I got from the statist echo chamber here on CM was verbal diarrhea and deflection.
Well, here it is almost four years later, and it's still Booosh's fault ... give the poor prez another term ...
Obama has done a lot to mobilize "conservatives" and to dis-enchant independents in his first term. He has certainly lowered the creditability of "liberalism" even among "liberals" (although they lay the blame on Obama, and not the world view that they share with him).
We are a strong country, and I think we can stand another four years of him. Oh, sure, there would be a lot of misery, but it might just take that to inoculate the next generation against "liberalism's" bankrupt structure. He may get to nominate another Supreme, but I suspect that he'll have a very hard time, because even if he is elected, the Congress will be either be fully in control of the R's, or they will have nominative control.
Heck, we may even get QE3 here soon, and be plunged into an inflationary recession (obviously Booosh's fault, as well), but then the public service unions will be pitted directly against every taxpayer, and eventually lead to the severing and extinction of the PS unions funding of captive Democrats who give them almost anything they want from the public coffers.
Almost no matter how you look at it, Obama has been good for the long-term welfare of the nation, simply by being himself, and "liberal" to such an extent that he will inevitably lead to the discrediting of the statist liberal view, and the activation of formerly quiescent citizens who oppose him.
Worst case, the divisions in American society that he has/is causing will finally cause a rupture in which the "Will of the people" must once again be re-affirmed in blood and treasure. Not a good outcome, in the short-term, but perhaps required in order to clear the future of zombie philosophies and beliefs, so that the American dream can be revitilized and reawakened.
Firm
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