Posted by
Juliana Johnson on Monday, November 03, 2008 4:37:24 PM
On Tuesday, I predict that the nation, suffering from George W. Bush
fatigue, will reject a third Bush term and vote for a change.
Yes,
that's right, Americans will renounce the "failed economic philosophy
of the Bush administration" and seize upon the opportunity to reform
our government.
Dispatched to that of a footnote in history will
be the career politician who spent his time in public office supporting
Bush's demand-side, domestic gambits.
Gone will be the candidate
who reviewed Bush's half-baked 2002 intervention into public education
with his No Child Left Behind federal cookie-cutter and saw only the
need for more money to sweeten the federal force-feeding.
Gone
will be the candidate who argued that the problem with Bush's 2003
Medicare Part-D prescription drug benefit disaster is that it didn't
have enough federal entanglements and that federal price controls were
needed to compliment the new entitlement.
Rejected will be the
candidate who talks about green energy, but who voted for Bush's
pork-laden energy bill that did nothing to move the needle towards
energy independence, the one with all those tax breaks for Big Oil.
Cast
aside will be the candidate who speaks of the "middle class" but is so
tethered to Bush that he voted for the $700 billion bailout of Wall
Street vultures and federal dimwits advanced by Bush's economic
overlord.
Forget the rhetoric of both Bush and his corporate
welfare-big government apostle; neither is who they say they are or who
they have been portrayed to be.
Voters have figured out that
Bush is no free market conservative and that there is a candidate in
this race for President who is not who he claims to be either.
That
is why I boldly predict that my fellow Americans in Ohio, Virginia,
Colorado and Nevada will vote for change, they will vote for reform and
they will make John McCain the 44th President of the United States.
Obama
is no agent of change from the last 8 years. Like Bush, Obama is a
political alchemist who views the federal government as the sovereign
remedy for anything and everything that ails the world.
When it
comes to matters economic, Barack Obama is to George W. Bush what V.I.
Lenin was to John Maynard Keynes. In other words, Obama is a socialist
in a hurry. Same failed philosophy, different pace.
While John
McCain has not distinguished himself as a visionary on these matters,
his more modest plans are likely to mean less social engineering from
the Presidency. That alone would be welcome change.
I think a
lot of common-sense, play-by-the-rules Americans have begun to sense
this difference as the Presidential campaign drama has moved towards
its resolution in the last few weeks. And I believe those Americans
will deliver an electoral victory of 275-263 for John McCain.
If I'm wrong, I don't want to be right.