Originally posted by: Bowfinger
Originally posted by: PC Surgeon
Greeat! Lets throw a big government party!
Perhaps you weren't paying attention. He voted against McCain.Bush (you know, the guys responsible for the biggest growth of our federal government in history).
The myth that Republicans represent fiscal responsibility and small government has been shattered, at least for anyone paying the slightest attention. It's a trend that started under Ronald Reagan -- who added trillions to our debt and spent more as a percentage of the GDP than any administration in the last 50 years -- and reached its pinnacle under George W "What's a few trillion more among cronies" Bush. John McCain is very much a part of that. While he started as a bit a maverick many years ago, he's religiously towed the BushCo line for the last several years. One need look no farther than his campaign machine to see that he really represents business as usual.
There is no rational reason to believe Obama will be worse that Bush/McCain, and many reasons to recognize he may be better, potentially much, much better. Republicans have had eight years, and fscked it up spectacularly. It's time to give someone else a chance. If they screw it up too, we can vote against them in 2010 and 2012.
If we survived eight years of BushCo, we can easily make it through four years of Obama. All it takes is rising above petty partisanship and doing what's best for America.