Politics and Culture

As I see it, there's one way, in the United States, for those out of power to get back into power, wait for the opposition to fail or for events to give the appearance of failure.

Who agrees with me? Why, none other than Sarah Palin!

Here.

“I think the Republican ticket represented too much of the status quo, too much of what had gone on in these last eight years, that Americans were kind of shaking their heads like going, wait a minute, how did we run up a $10 trillion debt in a Republican administration?” Palin told the Anchorage Daily News and Alaska’s KTUU Channel 2.

“How have there been blunders with war strategy under a Republican administration? If we're talking change, we want to get far away from what it was that the present administration represented and that is to a great degree what the Republican Party at the time had been representing. So people desiring change I think went as far from the administration that is presently seated as they could. It's amazing that we did as well as we did.”

I've thought for some time that the reason people were willing to take a risk on the Democrats is that few have memories of a disastrous Democratic presidency like that of Jimmy Carter. Bill Clinton's term was marked by good economic growth and social progress on crime, welfare, and cultural indicators like abortion. That it wasn't totally or even mostly his doing is besides the point.

I don't own stock in GOP and I feel that it's evil on some moral so I don't yearn for an Obama disaster. Even if I did, his fate lies with the consequences of his policies which conservatives think will lead to economic and foreign policy deterioration- results that lie outside the power of positive thinking and require no extraordinary twists of fortune. In other words, while nobody wishes the nation ill, ill will come as certain as a second sandwich follows Michael Moore's first, if Obama governs as a leftist and conservatives are correct about left governance. If not, then Obama's correct and we should all change our assumptions. Living, as I do, in a state with a Democratic stranglehold on politics, my assumptions needn't worry.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/11/10/palin-says-bush-record-led-to-loss/