by Michael Skinner

Created on: August 30, 2009   Last Updated: June 20, 2010

In a recent poll, most Americans identified themselves as conservatives. The problem for conservatives is that their last leader, George Bush, did every thing exactly wrong. He started an unnecessary, nation-building war and ran up a huge deficit. He failed to veto any allocations from a spendthrift congress. Bush failed to protect the border after 9/11 and let 20 million illegal aliens in to steal the jobs of Americans during a recession. Bush has been the worst conservative this country has ever seen and that was not even his most egregious fault. Shortly after 9/11, when Bush had the good will and political leverage to lead the nation to energy freedom and gain control over illegal immigration, he squandered his chance on an illegal war against Iraq and crushed the civil liberties of ordinary Americans with the Patriot Act.

Given how badly George Bush screwed everything up, Republicans find themselves rudderless. Enter Rush Limbaugh, who worships at the altar of the failure of the United States. For if the President of the United States fails, then so will the nation as a whole. It is nauseating to see grown Republicans hasten to kiss Rush Limbaugh's fat ring-fingered hand when they give the slightest offense to the corpulent one.

If there was an election to see who could inhale the most Hillbilly Heroin, or who could walk around with the most Viagra prescriptions that are not in his name, or who could divorce the most wives, or who could avoid fighting in the most wars, then Rush Limbaugh could win such an election by acclamation. But the 2010 elections are not to see which among us is the most morally depraved hypocrite. Rather, they will be to choose members of the House of Representatives and Senate.

Republicans will of course be painted by Democrats as the party of No. In this, Democrats can have things both ways. With the notable exception of President Barack Hussein Obama himself, no Democrat has in any useful way included any conservative Republican in any decision-making process. So Democrats can truthfully say that Republicans were not part of the decision-making process. They will just leave out the part where they reveal that Democrats deliberately kept Republicans out.

Democrats have a secret weapon: An October surprise. Congressional democrats are poised to buy the 2010 election with tax money. That's right, they will buy your votes with your money. Proof of this can be found in almost any news story about the stimulus money. Notice how much of it will not be spent until 2010. Ask yourself, if unemployment is over 10% now, why don't they spend the money now and create jobs now? The reason they don't is they don't actually care whether or not you have a job. They only care if they can buy your vote by spending your tax money to create the jobs nearer to election time. Keeping you unemployed until then is actually a clever strategy. Imagine the relief you will feel when you actually get a job right before the election.

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