The Deep Breath Before the Plunge

Today is the last day before people start heading to the voting booths around the nation and casting their ballots for local offices on up to the Office of President.

I think I've made my preferences known as to who I think should be President. I don't think there really is any question that Sen. Barack Obama's policies will be harmful, corrosive, and undermine national security and our economic standing. However, perhaps nearly 50% of Americans think that Obama should be President. Of that number, some are not voting for Obama, but rather against Sen. John McCain.

The true believers for Obama may be in for quite a shock and disappointment, even if Obama wins. They'll quickly find out that Obama isn't going to do what they want him to do, even as some intend to push Obama to move even further to the Left than he already is. And I wouldn't even begin to wonder what might happen if McCain pulls off the shocker of our generation by beating Obama and forcing all the prognosticators, pollsters and pundits to eat a whole bunch of crow. Doug Ross comments on that possibility. Let's just say that the last eight years of Bush Derangement Syndrome might not begin to capture the craziness emanating from the Democratic party should Obama go down to defeat. Of course, that possibility also opens the door to Sen. Hillary Clinton and her segment of the Democratic party becoming resurgent. It would also create serious turmoil in the Party and the ensuing internecine battle for primacy will be fun to watch, although Democrats who believed that the Presidency should have been theirs in 2008 will be fighting to assign blame for the disastrous results.

Either way, we're going to see quite a bit of buyer's remorse, no matter who wins. This was not an election of two qualified candidates whose executive experience and knowledge were substantive and measurable, but rather a choice between the evil of two lessers. This was the best that our nation's political system could come up with.

And that's truly a sad statement on the political process in the United States.