21st April 2009, 8:15 AM
Eh, both sides kinda fly off the pan handle anytime they lose an election. How many times was Bush called the antichrist? Now Obama is being called the antichrist. Although, being the more religious political leaning, the right tends to take this antichrist business a little more seriously to the point where they believe that Obama actually is the son of Satan. I kinda got the impression that the left as joking when they called Bush the antichrist and the War on Terror the beginning of the apocalypse.
But yeah, this whole "taking back the country from the people who stole it" bullshit is ridiculous considering Obama won an election fair and square. It was understandable back in 2000 when Gore actually did when the popular vote, and I don't remember it being said at all after the 2004 election since most people, whether they liked it or not, accepted that Bush won fair and square that time.
So why did the GOP lose the midterms in 2006 and the presidency in 2008? Simple: the Bush Administration was a complete and utter failure, according to 61% of historians and much of the population. If the Republicans want to win back the appeal of the population, they need to stop riding on whatever's left of Reagan's legacy and realize that Bush's foreign and domestic policies were all huge errors, something Bush would never admit even when everything was crumbling apart in front of his very eyes. It should come as no surprise to them that they lost control after all that Bush did. The people were unhappy with the GOP and so they elected Democrats in their place. The Democrats did not "steal" the nation. Things are just the complete inverse of what they were from 2003 to 2007, when the Republicans controlled the White House and both houses of Congress. I'm sure they're pretty much depending on Obama (or some later Democrat) to fail so that they can get back in power since that's about the only way they will get back in power.
Seceding from the union? Retarded. It was retarded in 1860 and it's retarded now. Dividing the nation will just make both sides weak and vulnerable to our real enemies, like the terrorists. All they have to do is wait for another election, run a decent campaign that isn't based on Bush-ian philosophies, and win the appeal of the people back. That's what the Democrats did (riding mostly on Bush's failures, admittedly) and that's how they went from the underdogs to the ones in charge. It can happen again.
But yeah, this whole "taking back the country from the people who stole it" bullshit is ridiculous considering Obama won an election fair and square. It was understandable back in 2000 when Gore actually did when the popular vote, and I don't remember it being said at all after the 2004 election since most people, whether they liked it or not, accepted that Bush won fair and square that time.
So why did the GOP lose the midterms in 2006 and the presidency in 2008? Simple: the Bush Administration was a complete and utter failure, according to 61% of historians and much of the population. If the Republicans want to win back the appeal of the population, they need to stop riding on whatever's left of Reagan's legacy and realize that Bush's foreign and domestic policies were all huge errors, something Bush would never admit even when everything was crumbling apart in front of his very eyes. It should come as no surprise to them that they lost control after all that Bush did. The people were unhappy with the GOP and so they elected Democrats in their place. The Democrats did not "steal" the nation. Things are just the complete inverse of what they were from 2003 to 2007, when the Republicans controlled the White House and both houses of Congress. I'm sure they're pretty much depending on Obama (or some later Democrat) to fail so that they can get back in power since that's about the only way they will get back in power.
Seceding from the union? Retarded. It was retarded in 1860 and it's retarded now. Dividing the nation will just make both sides weak and vulnerable to our real enemies, like the terrorists. All they have to do is wait for another election, run a decent campaign that isn't based on Bush-ian philosophies, and win the appeal of the people back. That's what the Democrats did (riding mostly on Bush's failures, admittedly) and that's how they went from the underdogs to the ones in charge. It can happen again.