{"id":5093,"date":"2008-11-12T08:19:50","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T13:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=5093"},"modified":"2008-11-12T10:05:44","modified_gmt":"2008-11-12T15:05:44","slug":"honestly-im-a-bit-relieved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=5093","title":{"rendered":"Honestly? I’m a bit relieved."},"content":{"rendered":"

Just like the rest of my readers, I was disillusioned that America picked Barack Obama initially. I was in a bit of a funk for a day or so, but the feeling went away by the weekend. I was surprised myself at how quickly I recovered. Today I figured out why – thanks to Michelle Malkin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

She writes “Heckuva Job, MacLame” criticizing McCain for his weak response to the complaining and absolutely untrue stories about Sarah Palin from his former campaign staff. While reading it, I realized that after eight years of making excuses for George Bush’s weaknesses<\/a> on issues other than national security, I’m just tired of defending “our guys”. I know that everyday I’d have to write about the silver lining in the countless clouds McCain would’ve sent our way and I’m just tired of it.<\/p>\n

Now, I know that’s pretty selfish, putting my own personal well-being ahead of the country’s, but after searching for those silver linings in George Bush’s clouds, I guess I’ve finally been able to identify my own silver linings. It’s going to be so much easier to be like the moonbats and just complain about every other word that comes out of Obama’s mouth for the next four years.<\/p>\n

We got rid of a lot of dead wood in the Republican Party over the last few years and some of the cream has risen to the top. We had a chance to purge a lot of the idiots who thought that we elected them to act like Democrats. New blood has replaced the old guard (who lost sight of how they seized Congress in 1994) and our future, as a Conservative Party is actually brighter than it was in 2004.<\/p>\n

John McCain would have been a fine president and I don’t mind that I supported him and voted for him. He was the better choice, relatively speaking. But watching him weakly defend Palin on Leno, his refusal to use blatantly illegal behavior by Obama and his campaign against them, his refusal to use Obama’s relationships against him all just convinced me that I’ll be better off, mental health-wise than I would have been otherwise.<\/p>\n

The Republicans will be in a much better position after four years of the affirmative action presidency, we won’t have to worry about the Clintons (who’ve been effectively bannished from presidential elections) and some real conservatives have stepped forward. I’m worried about the country economically and about our national security, but we’ve recovered from worse in the past.<\/p>\n

As always, I remain an optimist about the American people, and now I can just be a critic instead of an apologist. It’s kind of liberating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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