Who Will Get The Glory?

CandA · Site Admin Joined: 08 Mar 2008 Posts: 22

United States President #44 will assuredly bring their political party into a golden age of reverence and esteem, be it the Republican, Democrat, or Green Party. The struggling economy is likely to stabilize by the end of this year, and will almost certainly rebound swiftly during the first year of the next President's first term. Progress in Iraq will continue to make leaps and bounds toward total self-sustainment and the presiding commander-in-chief will surely be showered with praise and given credit for "fixing George W.'s mess." It is for these reasons that the 2008 Presidential election is of crucial importance to both Democrats and Republicans.

The country, however, can not afford to have the Democratic party look like the savior of the United States to the American people. Such high public esteem would result in little resistance to the socialist reforms that come under the guise of protecting and providing for citizens. With these reforms come government programs and regulations which result in the loss of individual freedoms and grave damage to our economy. Unfortunately, the seeds have already been sewn by Democrats quick to place blame on the Grand Old Party for the problems in Iraq and the current economic downturn, problems which have arisen as a result of a multitude of complex factors, including inadequate pre-war planning in the former case and poor lending practices (on the part of both lenders and borrowers) and market manipulation by the Federal Reserve in the latter case. Of course, it is easy and serves the Democratic party well to blame George W. Bush and the GOP explicitly, but that is simply misleading and blatant manipulation of the American people. Many Democrats also like to point to the increase in total federal spending under the George W. Bush administration in an effort to shift attention away from their spendthrift habits, but that increase is primarily due to two ongoing wars and a failure to control the spending and pork-barrel projects authorized by congress. (It should be mentioned that the current Democrat-controlled congress has an approval rate far below that of the President--18% to 34% according to a recent NBC/Wall Street Journal Poll).

So although Republicans are faced with a much-less-than-ideal pool of candidates to choose from this primary season, it is imperative that the party come together this November and rally around the GOP candidate; if only to ensure that Democrats do not receive credit for the inevitable progress of the economy and Iraq war. The resulting sway of public-opinion would only plunge us further in the direction of a socialist government in the ensuing years under a Democratic President and Congress.