Obama will be Prez and it will make us long for the Carter years...

It's been a while since I blogged. Hell, it's been a while since I typed to any great extent. So, if I seem rusty and unsure and a tad hesitatant, well...it's the booze.

Just kidding.

Mostly.

Back on subject: President Obama. Yeah, I said it. Get used to it because I think it's 'inevitable'. Kinda like Hillary was once upon a time just a few short months ago. An empty suit with zero practical experience; photogenic looks, great speechwriters, shady background and an almost evangelical "Billy Sunday" kind of fervor surrounding him will be running the country for four of the longest, most painfully miserable years of our lives.

And. It's. All. Our. Fault.

"Our", meaning conservatives. Us. You and me. We fucked ourselves. Harsh words but very descriptive.

We let McCain get picked for us. Because we have a silly ass, outdated and skewed primary system. So now we have a RINO representing us. Instead of a solid, proven uncompromising conservative like Fred Thompson. Sure, you can talk about him being 'lazy' or not being forceful enough or not experienced or disorganized or whatever. He was a tried and true, solid mans man conservative of limited government, low taxes, protect the borders, kill the terrorists, constitutional originalist thinking.

Of course, you could always piss away your votes on Ron Paul. He's strict constitutionalist. Who also happens to be leaning a bit towards the crazy and has hare brained, bullshit ideas about foreign policy. (Isolationism) Not to mention that he couldn't get elected president if all the other candidates dropped dead simultaneously.

Bottom line, after whatever dust-up happens at the Democratic Convention, BHO will be the Blue candidate and McCain the Red.

Left with a choice between a giant douche and a shit sandwich, what will we do? Conservatives will stay home, moderates and liberals will vote and the winner will be an out of his league socialist with terrorist sympathies who has done nothing in his time in office except campaign for ever higher ones.

His policies will weaken, bankrupt and ravage this country and its economy. Our hard fought gains around the world against terrorism will be reversed. We will see an influx of illegal invaders to our shores. Personal freedoms will be destroyed in the name of 'tolerance', 'diversity', 'protecting us from ourselves', 'for the children...the environment...our shared whatever'. Rogue nations, coalitions of nations, cartels and powerhouse emerging economies with dubious, quasi-dictatorial leaderships will smell weakness, fear, self doubt and irrational guilt over our own success and will pounce upon us in our moment of doubt, to our (hopefully not) eternal peril.

We emerged from four years of horrific mismanagement and borderline criminal leadership by James Earl Carter because a true leader, a visionary powerhouse named Ronald Reagan taught us to be proud and strong and fierce and noble and to stand on our own two feet again.

Unfortunately, so much...perhaps too much has changed since 1980. The world is far more dangerous and far more complacent and unwilling to do for itself anymore. Can we come out the other side of this oncoming dark tunnel into a world of light and freedom again? Will there be another Ronald Reagan to show us the way? Do we deserve it? Or should we be forced to wallow in the shit-pile mess of our own creation, our own stupidity for long enough to ensure that we think long and hard before letting it happen again?

Once upon a time I'd have said yes, we deserve to suffer. It would make the return to freedom that sweeter. The old "You don't know what you've got..." speil. But I have children now. I have to make sure they stay safer, are happier and have rich, free lives ahead of them. "I have a family, I cannot afford the luxury of principles..."