I don’t remember thinking that Bush’s expansion of government at a exponentially-Democrat rate was a good thing. Ofcourse, I did support the War on Terror, but then again, so did the U.S. Congress, which I think represents us all, so in that sense, yes, we all get to pay for those.

What your man, BHO, wants me to do is pay for an expansion of government benefits that would outstrip even G.W. on spending, I think it was 1 trillion dollars of new spending, while cutting our defense. Here’s a twist on your analogy.

I go to this diner, and order from the Middle East buffet, as you put it. I also get hit with a gratuity, which pisses me off and drops his approval rating down to 25%, from the current owner for Prescription Drug Benefits and the creation of the Department of Homeland Security. Then steps in a new owner, who decides to tack on a bunch of extra charges onto my bill to pay for the other patrons who don’t want to pay for their” Social and Welfare Programs Smorgasbord”, something I didn’t order nor do I want to eat, since it looks and smells like a crap sandwich.

And you wonder why I might not be happy?

Some of us sit on our ivory impalement stakes, preening about our “rationality,” our “civilization,” our pride that we don’t suffer from “Obama Derangement Syndrome.”

Meanwhile, the liberties of the Republic – “if we can keep it” – given us by our Founders and Framers, via their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor are heading straight down the toilet while we pretend that politics is a game of beanbag played by “honorable rules.”

We are fools.

Do you value liberty? Do you value the republic the framers gave us? Do you hate socialism? Do you despise those who would destroy the American dream of self-reliance, individual liberty, and personal advancement by trading it for a nightmare mess of socialist, statist pottage?

You do? And yet you would soothe your own idiotic sense of personal value by refusing to dirty your hands with the vicious matters of victory over an opponent who has no such qualms, no such restraints?

How disgusting I find you, who will console yourself with idiotic notions of personal nobility while the opporessors put their chains around your necks and their boots into your faces.

So go ahead and gloat a bit – hell, gloat a lot. Go ahead and create a cult of personality. But when your golem bites you in the ass, don’t come whining to us. Tyranny has a bad habit of doing that once you let it loose a bit.

My use for the Republican Party is as vehicle for advancing conservative principles and policies – and given the behavior of our Presidential candidate over the past couple of weeks, I’m finding myself starting to feel just a bit relieved he isn’t going to have the chance of stabbing us in the back as President.

Of course, I’m not to pleased at the prospect of being stabbed in the front by our nation’s incoming President and Congress – but I least I can see that direction of attack coming and thus have a chance to defend myself and perhaps prevail in the ensuing struggle.

So we’re pass the campaign rhetoric stage. It’s actions that count now. I’m going to observe and assess the decisions he makes: opposing wrong actions and being glad when things go well (which I suspect won’t happen to often, but that’s another story).

But don’t expect us to unilaterally disarm. Surely you don’t think we’re suicidal, do you? Seriously, would you trust our Congressional leadership to do the right thing on their own initiative without hearing an opppositional voice? I think Putin joining the Cato Society would be more likely…

And we’re going to give BHO a try, don’t have much choice as he was elected through our electoral process. I didn’t see anyone here calling for a coup or anything. I think the point was that while BHO might be our president, none of us is going to just sit back and fail to criticize him when his policies are more whack than Whitney Houston on crack. And if the ad hominems get hot and heavy in the process, I guess what is good for the goose is good for the gander. While I know many didn’t like Bill Clinton, I don’t remember him getting the kinda treatment from the right like Bush recieved. Hell, I don’t think Hillary got even 25% of the treatment Bush received, and she caught alot.

But at the end of the day Dan, you can’t take a dump on the Republican president for 8 years, and then when your man is now in a position to catch his own load of ca ca, try to put on a smiley face and tell us to place nice….

Freakin’ hypocites. The only tolerance they know is of their own opinion.

As the saying goes, be careful of what you wish for: you might get it. Well, they’re just about to get it in spades.

A militia group in Michigan? Right now, we each have our respective parts of the country to deal with. I don’t think we’re militia types, but we certainly support the right of individuals to bear arms. On the other hand, if a Michigan militia could help us bone up on our shooting skills, maybe we could go pay them a visit.

So we should be gracious? I guess we could give it a try, but with all the vitriol that’s been spewed by Bush Derangement Syndrone sufferers over the past 8 years, we may have forgotten what gracious sounds like.

Which one of us ever said that patriotism was about wearing a flag pin? All those people who criticized Bush said that the highest form of patriotism was their dissent. I hope that they’ll remember that when we start practicing patriotism by criticizing Obama.

See, Duncan ate at a nice restaurant for eight years, ordering everything he wanted including the Middle Eastern buffet, and the owner told him not to worry, he’d never get a bill, the bill would go to his children. Suddenly the restaurant has been sold and Duncan’s afraid the new owner will want Duncan to pay his own bill. Duncan’s pissed off, he wanted his kids to pay his bill. I think Duncan’s mad that he ate so much, but he’s afraid to admit it. He just hates that new owner.

After eight years, you can’t be gracious about someone else trying it? Ah yes, you’ll cry about how Bush was harassed from day one, but don’t forget those many Clinton appointees who are probably still paying legal fees from protecting themselves from the investigations that didn’t stick.
Your boy messed up kids, he blew it, made bad, did a lousy job by all accounts except you few crazy Bush apologists. Now, play nice, be patriotic as you’re all so fond of thinking of yourselves, and give someone else a try. It would be good for the country, that’s the patriotic part. You see, there’s more to it than just wearing a pin.