by Joey Goze

Created on: November 09, 2008

When I was in high school, I was not the most popular kid in school. I remember once as a junior, me and some buddies found a way to get into a party that all the cool kids were attending. It was your typical Friday night high school bash. Someone's parents were out of town, a keg was acquired by dubious means, and high school kids were there generally behaving badly. To keep a long story short, I drank way too much alcohol, participated in the bad behavior, tried to get friendly with many girls, and woke up with the most horrible hangover of my life.

And this is how I view the campaign year of 2008.
It was a drunken binge of liberalism.
Swarms of unthinking drones (i.e., liberals and independents) flocked to the party. All the hip people of the liberal party were there along with some class clowns like Reverend Wright, William Ayers, and Tony Rezko; all mingling around. And at the center of the party, there sat Barak, the coolest kid of them all.
Shots of change and hope were being past around by the dozen. The inebriated were bouncing off the walls. Not one sober individual among the crowd.

This was a party that got way out of control.
To throw in a piece of analysis, I heard pundits saying, "Barak ran a marvelous campaign". My humble view is that anyone can run a "marvelous campaign" when you have the massive American media machinery behind you.
He was treated with kid gloves all the way through. It took a plumber named Joe to ask him the first direct question related to his tax plan.
To return this to the parallel of the wild party, the media were like the cops that never came to break it up.

So now we find ourselves the day after the drunken bash. Liberals and Independants and dare I say, some spineless Republicans, are waking up.
They will look around the house and think, man what a party that was. The problem is that they will ignore the huge mess. All the empty promises strewn on the floor, the change that was thrown in pool, and the optimism that someone tried to flush down the toilet. They will disregard the headache and the possibility that they should not have drank that last shot of hope! They are not digesting the fact that this is a hangover that is not going to go away with a few aspirin. It is a pain that this country is going to experience for the next 4 years.

I can remember that hangover when I was in high school. Fortunately, I did not do anything dangerous and applied the lesson to future experiences.
The four year hangover that we are now facing is going to be extremely painful. I only hope that when all is said and done, the people will learn from this huge mistake, that the resolve of conservatives across this nation will be fortified, and that for every socialist maneuver that this new government attempts to make, we, the conservative base, will be standing up for what is right and good in this nation.

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