Well the election is finally over and I for one am glad. The G.O.P. is at a crossroads. They were on top of the world eight years ago, controlling every part of our national government. Now they have nothing. After 911 America was willing to do most anything “w” asked. What happened? They divided us rather than inspiring us the way Obama has. The G.O.P. can either repudiate the old divisive Bush tactics used to split America into the un-Americans and the real-Americans or they can change by accepting reality.
Kentucky, as usual, is behind the times along with the rest of the South in their misunderstanding and prejudice relative to what has transpired over the last 40 years since Nixon’s Southern strategy was initiated. Our backwards-thinking electorate is still vulnerable to the reactionary non-issues that have dictated how we have voted for poor candidates. All a candidate has to do is campaign on guns, God, gays and race then they will be elected.
Your guns are not going to be taken away so just let that fear go. It’s not going to happen. God was in business a long time before our politicians started taking credit for defending her. These same politicians keep trying to make more laws because God wasn’t very effective at eliminating the particular sins they weren’t real fond of. Can’t we all just agree that we and the government have no right to impose our personal religious views and morality on others? It’s none of your business. Those issues are better off left between you and God, not the government. The issue of racism is the elephant in the room that Southern conservatives still won’t let go. Grow up!
Why not let the divisive failed Republican Party die a quiet death and start a new party? I’m an independent liberal and I’d be willing to help. Open your mind. How about a party that is fiscally conservative (not like the present Bush administration, more like Clinton’s) and is socially moderate (one that accepts immigrants and individual religious freedom from government intrusion into private moral, weapons and medical matters)? How does that sound bitter-clingers? Why can’t we all get along? To get out of the hole “w” has dug us we will have to. Like President Obama says, “There is no red America or blue America, We are all Americans.” Try acting like it.