Barack Obama and the Democrats are___ [readers may fill in the blank with a string of their favorite pejorative nouns and adjectives, e.g., "liberal," "collectivists," "Keynesians," "ignorant," "misinformed," "envious," "malicious," and any others the reader desires except "powerful enough to take this country where Republicans do not want it to go."] The President and Democrats are many things but this powerful they are not.
No, the problem with the direction the country is headed is the Republican Establishment, which has made a long career out of snookering and hoodwinking conservatives into believing the Republican Party is the party of small government, low taxes, freedom and prosperity at home, and peace abroad. Republicans are, in fact, the very opposite. To paraphrase Pogo, “We Republicans have met the enemy and he is us.”
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