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The Corner's Kathryn Jean Lopez is a personal bellwether, so it was to her
that I turned this morning, hoping to learn that my initial fears
- that caused me to throw McCain from my living room 3 minutes
into the debate - were unfounded.
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This is a fuller elucidation of what a lot of people are e-mailing me:
Kathryn, love your articles, you seem to have the pulse of the
country much more than most. McCain kissed it away tonight. Without
some unforeseen event, he will lose by about 6-8 points and assure a
Democratic majority in the Congress and the Senate, although I still
think the Republicans will hold onto about 42 seats or so in the
Senate, although with Snowe and others, I’m not sure that means much.
However, he has created the future and maybe that was his role in
everything. The same way that Ford created Reagan by allowing Carter to
win with his bad debate performance, I think McCain has created our
future with Palin. Her instincts and idealogy with 4 more years of
experience coupled with an Obama Administration (ala Carter) will lead
to a conservative revival which hopefully, at 43 years old, will be the
last one that I have to experience in my life. The next 4 years are
going to be brutal, although hopefully, the Democrats will overreach
during the first two years and usher in Republicans to the House and
Senate that understand the mistakes of the past and start acting like
Republicans. With Gov. Jindall, Gov. Palin and Gov. Romney (who I voted
for in the primary in Georgia, because I saw this coming, and I loved
Gov. Romney’s message), the Republicans will be reborn. We, as a party,
need to say never again to moderate, old Senators, or even VP’s (see
Dole, McCain and Bush 1) and start putting forward young, energetic and
idea driven governors. They have executive experience, ideas and the
ability to communicate the ideals that make our party great. I hate
that we have to go through the next 4 years with Obama at the helm. We
will be tested severely by every adversary we have in the world and
Obama’s instinct to talk and negotiate above every other action will
serve us terribly.
My family and I will suffer serious financial hardship over the
next 4 years. Obama has no understanding of those of us who work 80
hour weeks, spend countless nights away from our families to provide a
good life for them and aren’t some notorious CEO’s ( could that guy
from Lehman be a bigger idiot?).Gov. Romney’s speech at CPAC and Gov.
Palin in this campaign are the only two people that I have seen that
speak to us who bust our backsides to support our family, don’t want
Government to give us anything and understand what we are all about.
It is time for the younger conservatives to rise up, take control of
our party and start expelling the idiots like [continued]
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While KJL obviously knows those sentiments, she channels me and issues a demurrer. She will not roll over and quit.
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I'm not there. I still have the fight in me. You know
why? Tuesday night: What Barack Obama said about 9/11 encapsulated it
for me. As Gov. Palin might put it: He just doesn't get it. "A lot of
you remember the tragedy of 9/11." Were there five-year-olds in the
room there I missed? We all remember, Senator. And tragedy? Maybe we should elect the head of the Red Cross commander-in-chief.
10/08 03:04 AM
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I'm still confident that the good guys will crack the Jap code and be waiting for them at Midway. USA! UAS! USA!
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