No one wants to keep the Republican out of The White House more than I do. I support Obama and I will vote for him.
But it drives me around the bend when I hear Obama, and other Democrats, invoke the last seven years, and The Bush Administration, to dissuade Americans from voting for McCain.
I've lived through the past seven years along with the rest of America, and believe me, I'm the last person who would dismiss the grave damage this administration has done to our nation. But fertile ground had to be laid for the likes of this band of thugs to be able to seize power.
That's why I wish the Democrats, and the Democratic candidate for President, would repeat, and repeat, that it's been the past 35 years or so of conservative domination in this country that has brought us to this sorry state of affairs. I wish they would remind America of the Savings and Loan scandal, the Iran-Contra affair, the Keating Five--I could go on and on. Good, hard-working, honest Americans had their lives destroyed by conservative abuse of power that makes Watergate look like a Cub Scout gathering. I wish Democrats would ask Americans, does this party look like the party of moral values? Of law and order?
I don't think it's enough for the Obama campaign to attack Bush Administration abuses and failures, and to characterize McCain as more of Bush. He's more of conservatism, the conservatism of the past 35 years that has done such damage to the nation. People are out there planning to vote for McCain believing that conservatives, the right wing, and the Republican Party aren't the problem; they think Bush and his cronies are a fluke. They really don't see that handing the Republicans control of the Executive branch of government, when they already have monopolized all three branches for much of the past thirty-five years, would be a grave, grave mistake.
The Obama campaign needs to invoke the past thirty-five years of conservative domination of this country. The campaign needs to use the Republican track record against McCain because that's what he stands for. The problem isn't just that he would be more of Bush. The problem is that he would be more of the Republican Party, more of conservatism.
Does this make sense to anyone else except me?