Posted by
Reaganite1970 on Thursday, November 06, 2008 3:40:00 PM
For months we had been as optimistic as we could. McCain was the GOP candidate and though we never really thought deep down he was the best candidate...there he was. I hear a lot of talk about Palin being the reason he lost, but anyone who paid attention should see she may have been the sole reason he didn't get soundly whooped (in terms of the popular vote anyway).
We need to realize it did not matter who the GOP ran up there. The Bush Presidency was going to be very hard to overcome. How could any GOP candidate promise lower taxes and less spending, when Bush and the Republican controlled Congress was out there spending like drunken sailors and not be looked at with much skepticism? Couple that with a vastly unpopular war (due in part to poor media coverage) and having to campaign with one arm tied behind one's back (Obama's broken promise to accept public funding), and it would have doomed even Ronald Reagan to defeat.
This is a time not to wallow in defeat, but to get the GOP back to it's roots, identify themselves as the true people's party, and start looking to the fresh faces of conservatism for solutions, energy, and passion. All is not lost. America has survived much worse and the GOP has always come back stronger. It is the one fact that gives me comfort. The next Reagan is out there. Our job over the next four years? Find him (or her).