Despite the fact that oil prices are climbing, jobs are becoming scarce and the housing industry is virtually in the toilet, I think McCain is a shoo in for president. I’m happy about this, as both Obama and Clinton scare me.
It shouldn’t be this way. I go back a little bit. I can remember the “Watergate” scandal and my grandfather, who was a very wise man, saying that “Mickey Mouse” could run on the Democrat slate in 1976 and would win since the Republican party was so vilified. And he did. He just used the name Jimmy Carter.
A lot of people are disillusioned with the government, especially at the federal level. Unemployment rates are going up and the housing market has crashed. Actually, neither of these things have to do with President Bush, but he will be blamed. The housing market crashed largely because of overzealous investors creating a false demand for a product and rising interest rates. More supply than demand equals lower prices. And when the housing industry crashes, it takes a lot of other businesses with it.
Bush is blamed for the economy because most people are too busy thinking about “American Idol” than the principals of economics. Even if he was a democrat, he would be blamed.
Clinton was lauded for the great economy in the 1990s. It wasn’t his fault, either. This can largely be attributed to Alan Greenspan and the lowering of the treasury bond rates. It caused a housing boom. What goes up, must come down.
But most American people don’t understand about economy, know who Alan Greenspan was, know what the federal reserve is or about the real estate bubble. They just know that they hate Bush because (pick one):
He is shoving religion down their throats;
He is a warmonger who is killing innocent Iraqis with his bare hands;
He is personally torturing people to get them to confess to terrorism;
He is spreading AIDS throughout the world;
He is against gay marriage;
He is racist;
He is responsible for killing all those nice death row inmates in Texas by allowing executions when he was the governor;
He plotted 9/11
He is dumb (this goes against the whole 9/11 plot, but do liberals ever really plan out their arguments?)
He is controlling the media (my personal favorite);
He was on the grassy knoll (I’m just waiting for this one).
President Bush has something like a 29 percent approval rating. People are concerned about oil prices, the state of the economy and things like Christmas being mentioned in schools.
This should have been a slam dunk for the Democrats, but it won’t be. The reason being is that the Democrats, which once were supposed to represent the welfare of the common, working man, now represent anything but. It is the lunatic fringe party. The frontrunner in race for nominee on the Democratic ticket has the support of the following:
Louis Farrakhan (I hate whites, Jews and am the leader of the Nation of Islam)
Jesse (Hymie Town) Jackson
Ted Kennedy (Too much material to even list here)
The fact that, after 9/11, someone would be considered a front runner who refuses to salute the flag and who attends a church where hate speech is part of the sermon (but that’s okay, you have to understand where the minister is coming from, after all, slavery just ended last week) and gains support from those who blame us for 9/11 because whitey kept the black man down, is amazing enough as it is. The fact that the Democrats are arrogant enough to believe that 9/11 is all but forgotten is even more amazing and a testament as to how out of touch they really are. With the common, working stiff who they used to represent.
Many ultra leftists are very vocal when it comes to voicing their opinions. I know this just for making political commentaries like this and I’m certainly no expert or professional when it comes to talking politics. But despite the fact that many on the internet spend a good part of their day vilifying Bush and everything in the party, there is another group of people who agree with what I’m saying.
They watch Fox News. They listen to talk radio. They understand what is going on an how the Democratic party has been used by virtually every lunatic fringe element around. And the majority of Americans don’t buy into the mantra of the ultra left. They are silent, but they vote.
Oh, and they know how to punch holes into ballots, too.