Well...............................

"Well..........," as President Reagan used to say (and I wish he were still alive and in office to say it),...... it's looking more and more like McCain or Obama.

It's not always easy to admit when we're wrong, but the old Bazookaman here sure missed the mark leading up to the primaries! I'd thought for SURE, folks have had enough of the government. Obviously not.

I guess we don't have enough illegals here yet. We're not far enough in debt to China just yet. We haven't lost enough rights and privacy to suit everybody. We haven't lost enough servicemen in Iraq, nor has the IRS robbed enough citizens yet. And of course, we're not paying twenty bucks a gallon yet.

I guess we've gotta get hammered some more.

I've heard a lot of people gripe and carry on, but when it came time to vote........well, why go into it.

Although I've voted like an Independent these past two elections, I've remained a Republican on paper, to at least be able to vote for good senators and congressmen, if there ARE any.

I was graciously invited to the most recent GOP meeting here in Mountain Home, and attended, out of curiosity for the most part. For years now, I've wondered what's happened to "my" party.

Since they were nice enough to invite me, I won't mention any names or particulars, except to say that it isn't the GOP of the Goldwater and Reagan era.

Ronald Reagan, who himself was once a Democrat, once quoted that he never left the Democratic party........."The Democratic Party left ME," he said.

This is exactly how I felt about the GOP when I went home that night. No, that meeting itself didn't convince me of anything I didn't already know, but it DID show me that liberal compromise exists at all levels of today's GOP.

Incredible.......just seven years after 9/11, the left wants to put someone with little experience ANYWHERE, and muslim ties to boot, into the White House.

The "right," (and I use that word loosely), who have complained about Kennedy, Feinstein, Clinton, Biden and the others for years and years now..........NOW parade a candidate who is every bit as liberal as the Democrats they've been complaining about.

"Well................" Your choice, but unfortunately we're ALL gonna have to live with it, leastwise, until we as a people HAVE been pushed too far.

You know, as I said earlier, I'd have thought we had long ago REACHED that point. I wonder what more has to happen before we ALL realize that the real war on terrorism starts in Washington D.C.

What's it going to take? A police state? Microchip implants (which will actually begin with this new "Real ID"}. The loss of every freedom, with 3 agents in dark suits on street corners demanding to see "your PAPERS please." Three families of illegals packed into a house YOU can't afford anymore?

Like the ostrich, you can bury your heads in the sand and pretend you don't see it, but it's coming.......and to stay with the "establishment" while we still have the power to make changes, is both fatalistic and just outrght stupid.

But....majority rules. I just hope "majority" has the collective guts to stand and fight when the time comes.............and it will.