Economy Stupid

We still have nightmares about 2000 and what happened in that election — it was wrong. Many of us believe that the candidate who got fewer votes was inaugurated president. -- Hillary Clinton, Florida, May 22, 2008

So I want to say to my supporters, when you hear people saying – or think to yourself – “if only” or “what if,” I say, “please don’t go there.” Every moment wasted looking back keeps us from moving forward. Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been. -- Hillary Clinton, June 7, 2008

What a difference two weeks makes, huh? Let's hope it is Hillary's last hypocrisy for a while.

So we are down to McCain and Obama. One is a Democrat, always thumbing his nose at our traditions and what we hold as important. Wishing to out-do Bush in the compassionate part without being conservative. And the other guy is Obama. The worst voting record in each of his three years in the Senate.

I'm thinking that it won't take much of a third party effort to disrupt and impact this election. Consider that Ross Perot was chosen by over 19% of the electorate, running solely on economic issues.

Even though Bill was the lucky recipient of the welfare vote, he realized that ending welfare (as we know it) was necessary, because, after all, it was "the economy stupid". The best way to improve the economy was to get more productivity out of the people. Putting them to work did that.

George, on the other hand is putting a lot more people to work, but unfortunately he is doing it on foreign soil, to the benefit of someone else's country. It's not hard to see why the dollar continues to tumble. We're throwing dollars around in Iraq, instead of in ANWR, where they are really needed.

So, George doesn't understand all this. He grew government and shrank the economy. McCain by his own admission doesn't get it. Obama? I doubt it, because he voted for every liberal hobby horse trotted out in front of the senate. Unless he will all of a sudden be his own man, instead of being a Harry Reid puppet; chances are he will only make things worse.

So, the situation is very ripe for someone to come along and mount a reasonable third party campaign. It will fall short, of course, but we might, in the process, accidentally elect someone who learns the lesson like Bill did.

Managing our resources does not mean retiring our military, which was the other part of Clinton's legacy. Our enemies would love us to take our eye off the ball the same way Clinton did. Certainly if we train effective fighting units, we ought to preserve their use for fighting. The rest of us should be doing things that benefit us and our own economy, and not that of a country we are trying to prop up.

Wizer One-Liner #19

As if taking pot-shots at GWB was even necessary, let alone sporting; we have to hear it from a press secretary bad enough to be fired by Bush.