Change Was Coming Anyway

One thing I found amazing about the recent Presidential election was the three candidates who seemed to be running.

I say three, because the Democratic candidate apparently convinced many Americans that George Bush was somehow running for a third term.

How else to explain the constant, mind-numbing call for "change?"

Boys and girls, we were getting a change anyway. Capice?

McCain, Obama. It almost didn't matter, in the sense that nobody running was as much a conservative as was our 44th President.

Even when he trained his sites on McCain, Obama constantly identified him as simply another term of George Bush's administration.

Yet conservatives know this would never have been true. Personally, I have never trusted McCain since his horrible co-sponsorship of the hated, laughably-ineffectual and ham-handed McCain-Fiengold campaign finance legislation over ten years ago.

I can vividly recall telling a colleague where I worked in 1998 that nobody dumb enough to co-author that bill had any business ever running for the Oval Office.

McCain was never my first choice among GOP candidates. Though unelectable to the Republican ticket, I preferred Romney or Giuliani. Either could likely have run a better campaign than McCain, scored decisive points in debates, and certainly lost by less, if not won the election.

But we were always due for substantive change after George Bush. McCain's lack of guiding principles, other than capping his public service career, would have resulted in more of the worst of George Bush's moderate moments as Presidents. The only saving grace would have been McCain's veto pen over Frisco Nan's and Harry Reid's worst social spending and entitlement atrocities. And the right to nominate a few Supreme Court judges.

I guess it's a testament to the gullibility of the average American voter that so many fell for a non-issue- change.

Change happens at least every four years, and no less than every eight.

In that, you can believe.