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November 5, 2008
Free at Last
Posted by Dave Blount at November 5, 2008 8:38 AM
Of the many silver linings to yesterday's catastrophe, V the K puts his finger on my favorite:
If only one good thing has come from this election, it's that it is crystal clear who the enemy is. We don't have to compromise any more. We're liberated from having to back mushy moderates just because if the alternative gets power, it would be worse. Well, now the worse alternative is in power, and we have nothing to lose.
When Dems lost in 2000 and 2004, they reacted by moving sharply to the left, and purging their ranks of relative moderates. In 2008, they ran a radical with the most extreme left-wing voting record in the entire Senate against a centrist known for shafting conservatives. You see the results.
The media will find it nearly impossible to spin Chairman O's administration as anything but a disaster, as the consequences of his inexperience, poor judgment, left-wing fanaticism, and corruption manifest themselves. If conservatives learn a lesson and take back the Republican Party from country club Big Government types like W and McAmnesty, there will be a resurgence of Reaganesque proportions in 2012, and very possibly a replay of 1994 in 2010.
Or we can let the mediocrities have the party, and rot away into liberals like Britain's Tories. The choice is ours.
