I’d like to leave a big blue dot tip with that red state reality check

They didn’t listen to us last time either. They actually thought John Kerry had a chance to win. But those of us surrounded by “other voices” knew he was just too much of a New England pointy head. Not that we didn’t like him. We just knew that NONE of our neighbors did.

So now we giddy Dems are about to offer up another party darling to the country, one that my neighbors are again telling me they just can’t vote for. And I’m not just talking about HRC. I’m sorry to say that the same can be said for Obama too. If there’s one hard lesson the last couple of elections have taught me, it’s that as my neighbors go, so goes the country. And they ain’t going for her—or for him. Much as I love what my fellow blogger Indigo says in her last post, I think she’s an anomaly.

If we can’t give the red-state fence sitters and moderates a choice they can digest, it will be a true tragedy. Because a lot of them seem ready to cross over to the bright side this time. And this country does not have another four years to throw away.

I hope I’m wrong. And based on Blue Dot voting results every month (which I assume comes mostly from red-staters), wrong I may very well be.

What if Hillary wins?

For years, watching Hillary has been like fingernails on a chalkboard for me. As a conservative, I’ve never cared for her personally or politically. She comes off as a power-hungry, well….you know. After becoming a presidential candidate, she made a swing to the right, but I’m not buying it. My instincts tell me she’s probably not going to win in ‘08, but we’ll see. The 2000 election showed us that anything can happen.

So what if she DOES win? I’m sure it will seem like the end of the world to Republicans. The machine that spent 8 years digging and throwing dirt at Bill will be pulled out of the closet and dusted off. Stories of the she-devil will fly across the internet. God will probably punish America for our evil votes with a giant tidal wave on Manhattan.

I really never thought I’d say this, but Hillary in the White House would be okay by me. The reason for my change in attitude is: George W. Bush. Bush has set the bar so low as president that even Hillary Clinton, while not desirable, is acceptable to me. The Republicans who are running now may not be Bush, but the party itself has drifted far away from real conservatism. I know this isn’t a ringing endorsement of Hillary, but it’s a big change for me. Bush and his pigs-at-the-trough congress have sent enough of our money over to Iraq and bungled their way through the past 7 years. I’d rather shell out our money to our citizens in a bunch of social programs, than to be shipping huge blocks of cash over to Iraq to disappear into corrupt Iraqi officials pockets. I’m not in any way for income redistribution, but at least our money would be circulating in THIS country. And the Bush administration has been so power-hungry and controlling that Hillary’s not looking so bad anymore. Thanks Bush. See what you’ve done…

Rewriting History

Bush’s Brain is at it again. Karl Rove is trying to rewrite history. He is pushing the message that the Bush Administration did not want to move as quickly toward war with Iraq, if at all, it was Congress’ fault. Congress passed the bills to give President Bush great latitude in the war on terror too fast. The administration was forced into war.

Can you believe this!? Regardless of how stupid the American polity has been over the years, surely the blinders have come off by now. Karl Rove has never met a lie that he didn’t like and why not. He has made his reputation on telling lies and repeating them so often that they take on a life of their own. Where there’s smoke there’s fire, right? So, lets buy what he is selling.

Look what he sold us in the past. What makes anyone think he would be selling anything but a lie now? We have got to stop buying what this pusher man is selling. It’s time to go cold turkey. Preferably a frozen turkey to the side of Roves’ head.