Well, tomorrow is election day!  Sadly, that means it will be the end of the most entertaining campaign season in my life.  I have enjoyed the ups, downs, bounces and flops and those just from the media coverage!  The candidates themselves are dull as dishwater compared to their running mates.  I've been disappointed but not surprised by the lack of coverage of "Plugs" Biden's gaffes.  Come on!  We should've been able to make hay for weeks out of his telling Katie Couric that FDR went on tv in '29 after the big crash. 

For my kids; FDR was not president in '29.  And tv wasn't around.  That neither Biden nor Couric seemed to know these facts tells you all you need to know about the state of journalism and democrats (after all, Biden is, by his own claim, a very, very intelligent man.  Really.) in today's world.

I have gotten tired of the relentless ads on tv and the radio.  Here in Minnesota, the fight between Al Franken an Norm Coleman is so ridiculous and over the top that the other night, sitting around the bon fire, we tried to come up with sillier ads than the ones actually running and we really couldn't.  All we could think of was "Norm Coleman eats live puppies for breakfast!"  and "Al Franken wants to rape your whole family!"  Run of the mill in this campaign.

I'm very optimistic.  I always am.  As my sister reminded me yesterday, I was convinced Bob Dole could win in '96.

The way I see it, McCain is doing very well, as most polls have him only a few points behind, and the polls have been notoriously weighted in favor of the Democrat candidate every election in my life.  It's possible that for the first time ever, the polls are correct, but I consider that an extreme possibility, considering that the polls are a function of the media and since 2000, the media has been more and more a hysterical organ of the left, with no relationship to reality at all.

On the other hand, presidential politics almost always boils down to the economy.  If Obama were actually running against Bush, I'd say Bush was toast.  That's why Obama is trying so hard to tie McCain to Bush.  It may work.  Only those of us who pay attention in off years remember how often McCain has been a thorn in Bush's side.  And could the Republicans be any less effective at putting the blame for the current financial mess where it belongs? The GOP really ought to be the GIP.  Gutless, Impotent Pussies.

But a gutless, impotent government is exactly what we conservatives like.  Not an overbearing, overweaning, omnipotent, Big O, spreading the wealth and the oppression of a Big Brother State.

  We have never elected such an unknown quantity, or one whose few known positions were so far to the left.  "Change!" the youngsters chant.  Change is usually bloody.  Change is what the Russians got when the Bolsheviks killed the Zcar.  Change is what the Chinese got when Mao forced his cultural revolution.  Change is not always bad, of course.  It's what America got when Lincoln freed the slaves.  Of course, it cost us 600,000 lives to do it.  

The foundations of America are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.  That last one includes free market capitalism and private property and freedom of speech.  Obama wants to "fundamentally change America."  Which of those foundations do we want to do without?

I believe in the American people.

Tomorrow we find out if America can still smell a rat.

 

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