Obama got his vote by any means possible.
The evidence is overwhelming.
And I don’t think he got elected President.
I think he won American Idol.

So for all the banter about no candidate we could stand behind and if that is your position then by all means , rejoice in what will be delivered to our doorstep on 1/21/09.
McCain may not have been great, heck, it pained me to vote for him. And the divisive posts and comments here leading up to his selection were monumental (Dam the RS upgrades). We lost some truly amazing exchanges getting to RS 4.0. But go back and read some of the Adam C and EPU posts. It took a good measure of sucking it up to come around to McCain.

But what of the states like VA which has voted republican back to the 1960′s going democrat? Perhaps the problem was one of “punishing” the republicans for straying too far. No matter what, we, as a party are at fault because for everything Obama is, his positions were not unknown. Trying to be something to everyone in the middle without a clear case as to what a core belief is was what McCain delivered, and it failed.

Personally, I’m not all that bothered by where we are right now as my business improves as the economy declines. However, this is natural. I am afraid of what the US economy will look like in 2015-2025 if this spending takes place.

(Sorry for that almost-certain threadjack, but I had to do it)

Remember the abortion debate, originally, hinged on the whole “but what about rape/incest/mother’s life in danger?” question.

Nobody was arguing that there should be partial-birth abortions. It all had to do with rape/incest/mother’s life exceptions.

And, next thing you know, there are debates over whether states have the right to make partial birth abortions illegal. Not whether states have the right to make them *LEGAL*, but whether to make them illegal again.

Compare back to the Fiscal Conservative debate.

“Surely, without this $700B package, the world, as we know it, will end!!!”

And it gets passed.

And now folks are expressing surprise at what happens next.

That sound you hear are The Gods of the Copybook Headings clearing their throats.

Granted Bush pushed the plan to congress and Paulson sold it by claiming disator if it failed, but in reality Obama’s new economic team is headed by the man who created the plan.

Also I don’t really think that the President or Congress really had to authorize the TARP plan since it really wasn’t a matter of monetary policy, it was a matter of the Fed doing something, which they could do because they are independent of the Government for the most part.

I think both the R’s in congress and the President did themselves the disservice of allowing this to be hung around there necks…which is more about them being stupid then anything else.

You know I am no fan of the TARP or any other bailout by any other name, but the point of my post is that McCain failed to show that Obama’s character should indeed be questioned, this allowed Obama to lie without any chance of the people catching on or even questioning whether or not he was lying.

I know think that, despite all his failings, between the two, McCain would have been the better President in 2000 (and 2004).

The problem is the liberal Bush Presidency that we conservatives failed to condemn when it was showing itself as liberal. Let’s remember, it was George W. Bush (and neither Obama nor McCain) who came up with these “bailout” ideals.

Truthfully, I wish John McCain had one the Presidency in 2000: I now think he would have been a much better President than George W. Bush. Gitmo aside, I think McCain would have handled the GWOT better than Bush (see: “surge”) and at least with McCain we would not have gotten MediCare Part D. George W. Bush even signed CFR into law.

And I say this as someone who started his posts on RedState by saying “I hate McCain …” and how started a fight with my wife in 2000 because we lived in New Hampshire and voted for McCain instead of Bush, like me.

I hate to admit that she was right but she was.

Most likely, this tepid response from Republicans represents both a typical conservative reluctance to increase government spending by such a large amount, as well as a negative reaction to the fact that the plan is being pushed by the Democratic president-elect.

How perceptive of them, especially on the first part…which was the point of this diary.

I choose to “opt out”….

66.8MM people cast a vote for Obama. How many of these people really believe that The One will deliver to them cash, prosperity and bliss? I know members of my family (not blood relatives of course) believe 100% that Obama is going to take care of them. And they are in positions to be hurt by his policies on wealth redistribution. And I explained till I was blue in the face how they can and will be hurt, but to no avail.

So whether we voted for or against Obama we as a nation have now a problem that will affect every person, young, old black or white. That our nation will move left towards socialism and ultimately the failings of what socialism is will bring about greater pain then what our current financial problem has.

We as Republicans and as a nation deserve this because we as a group did not stand and demand from our media, our state representatives and our national officials to follow the ideals we desire. The ideals that are America.