Election 2008

Before we start appraising and evaluating candidates for Election 2008, we, as a nation, need to seriously consider what happened to us in 2006 and what is happening to us now in 2007.

A lot can happen between April 2007 and November 2008. Even now the Democrats are flexing their political muscle and passing bills that will be detrimental to all of us. The real losers in the mid-term elections of 2006 are the American People and if we, as a nation, do not get our collective act together in 2008, our days as a great nation are numbered.

Before we start looking forward to 2008, let's do a reality check of what is happening right now in 2007. Within a matter of months after coming to power, the Democrats have returned the U.S. House of Representatives to its former theatrics and the U.S. Senate into a comedy routine.

Did the American voters really put back in power the same party that flaunts its perversions, corruption, immorality, back room, back door, and deceptive legislative practices and its utter contempt for the rule of law? Yes, we did. There are even those among us who are looking gleefully for Democratic victories in 2008 with Obama, Clinton or Edwards at the helm. I shudder at the thought.

Pundits, "so called" experts and Democratic operatives keep telling us that we, the American people, have sent a strong message that we are upset with the Bush Administration and their supposedly mismanagement of the War on Terror.

These pundits and experts are essentially telling us that we, the American people, prefer graft, corruption, perversion, immorality and a gangster operation masquerading as the Democratic Party to lead us; rather than a Republican Party of principles, values, responsible citizenship, low taxes, real leadership and effective government. Well, in theory that's how it was suppose to work.

I don't support failed Republican leadership any more than I support failed Democratic leadership. I don't care for failed leadership of any kind. These times are too dangerous and explosive for that. However, I'm not that far removed from reality to keep the Democrats in control of Congress or have another President from the Democratic Party in 2008. The Democratic record in this country is not only shameful and a dismal failure, it is an absolute atrocity.

It should be as visible as the nose on your face that the Bush Administration and the Republican leadership failed all us. At least President Bush and the Republicans had the guts to stand up and try to do something about our downward spiral.

During the 6 years the Republicans controlled the House and the Senate they did manage to give Congress some level of decency. However, that old adage is still true and few have escaped is intoxicating appeal. Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Did the Republicans make mistakes?...Yes. Did the Republican leadership slip into the unforgiving abyss of cover up and corruption?...Without question.

However, unlike their Democratic counterparts that are still harboring an impeached judge from Florida and a suspected criminal from Louisiana in the House of Representatives, elected a dead man to political office, elected a known racist (Byrd) and a glib griftess to the U.S. Senate (Hillary Clinton) and a known philanderer as President (Bill Clinton) and have the unmitigated gall to popularize this man, at least the Republicans try to keep a clean house. What's even more disheartening is millions of Democrats would vote for the griftess and bring back the philanderer.

The Democrats have little or no concept as how to keep their political house clean. The stench from the corruption and chicanery that the Democratically controlled Congress gave us in the past still hangs over this nation like a burial shroud. But, if you stand in a pig pen long enough, you can easily adapt to its foul smell and mounds of filth. What do really have to look forward to in Election 2008? The pig pen of Democratically inspired corruption and mismanagement that liberal voters are so quick to forgive and re-elect to public office.

These are not partisan attacks, they are absolute facts that any reader can verify for himself/herself. To be sure the War in Iraq is no longer popular; but the war against "Radical Islam" is the right war at the right time. It's just in the wrong place. To be sure, the war on terror in Iraq has been horribly mismanaged. But to assume the Democrats can save us from future terrorism is sheer madness. Let's not forget a "Radical Islamic" group called Al-Qaida attacked us on 9/11/2001.

How can Obama, the Clintons or even John Edwards and the rest of America's modern Democratic Party help us win a war against radical Islam? How can they, when they have already made a mess of America. The modern Democratic Party has literally destroyed every value, concept and precept we have ever cherished as a nation.

The modern Democratic Party and its "Secular Humanist" supporters have ruined everything they have touched from education to free trade. It only stands to reason they will ruin the War on Terror and destroy us in the process.

This leads me to the second reality check we, as a nation, need to consider. This reality check is far more insidious than the first one. Vast segments of our population are becoming lawless, petty, polarized, self-serving and selfish in nature. This population group is dragging all of us down to new lows of personal depravity. You can see their influence in everything from the Internet to television commercials and all points in between. Hollywood and cable got in the cess pool years ago.

There is another adage that is well suited for our day and age and it is uniquely suited as an epithet for the 2006 mid-term elections and a "Red Flag" for Election 2008. Every nation of people will eventually end up with a government they deserve. GOD help us all if this ever comes true in America.