It has been six days since the election (I use the term loosely) of Mr. Obama. I have been listening to the pundits and media elites to find out how and why Mr. Obama was elected with 65 million votes. Reason 1) “People wanted change” and Obama was on message for 24 months. Reason 2) McCain was all over the place without a coherent message. Reason 3) McCain picked Gov. Palin. Reason 4) the economic meltdown killed McCain’s candidacy when it hit.

I get the whole people wanted change thing. What I don’t get is that nobody new what that was. The change we do know that he will bring is embryonic stem cell research out of the Presidential ban, and he will reinstitute the ban on drilling in Utah. We know he wants to bail out the auto industry and put judges (again I use the term loosely) on the SCOTUS to be sensitive to the plight of single moms and the poor. We know he wants to tax the 5% of the American People who have horded all the money in the world and won’t share with anyone. I think he may be talking about Barbara Streisand, Steven Spielberg, and Bruce Springstein. I find it amazing that Warren Buffet wants higher taxes since it would matter to him one way or the other. It is not the guy making $65 bn it is the guy making $250K that will be hurt the most. What we don’t know is how he is going to manage the $10 trillion debt we are facing now and will more than likely go to $12 trillion in the next 2 years.

I will skip reason #2 because Sen. McCain did have an incoherent message in the beginning, but did hone it in the end. The reason I want to focus on was the choice of Gov. Palin to be his running mate. Governor Sarah Palin did not spend her life maneuvering to be President. She started her political career wanting to be in her children’s educational life. Governor Palin started as a PTA member, and then went to the city council only because she wanted to be a part of her community’s betterment. A political career was hatched only then. I don’t think she ever imagined that she would wind up being Governor or even a VP nominee. I dare anyone who is concerned about their community would ever turn down the opportunity, when asked, to be his/her parties nominee to be Vice-President. As Glenn Beck always says, “I am just an alcoholic.”  Well so am I. I think it may take getting the cobwebs out of our brains to be able to see clearly. Governor Sarah Palin is loved by the conservative wing because she is three things; 1) Believes in life, 2) individual responsibility, and 3) a love of this country that drives her to want to defend her. I wonder if you noticed I didn’t go into her beauty. That is just the icing on the cake. We as conservatives only see beauty as it relates to inner beauty; love of country, and the sanctity of human life.

The economic meltdown is by far the only reason John McCain lost by as much as he did. I am not going to be one of those people who are going to argue that he should have voted against the $700bn dollar bailout/rescue. I am one of those people who believe that the President was so poorly served by Sec. Paulson and FRB Chairman Bernanke. John McCain was right to call for the resignation of Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chris Cox. The rescue of the housing crisis could have been solved by a few changes in the accounting rules and an insurance plan to backup the difference in the amount of the write-down of mortgages and related investment vehicles. The only area that the Government should be dealing with is the $200 trillion in Credit Default Swaps (CDS) that are going to plague our economy for years to come.

The SEC could have killed Sarbanes/Oxley; changes the mark-to-market rules, find an amount (based on revenue streams of the mortgages being paid) of the mortgage assets, and whatever the difference have the Treasury or the FDIC insure it. The whole mess could have been solved for about $200-$300 billion, no money would change hands and the deficit would not go to $10 trillion. The President should fire Cox, Paulson, and Bernanke for gross misconduct and put John Snow back in as Secretary of the Treasury.

The Republican Party should go around the country with Frank Luntz to his famous Independent leaner’s and ask them three questions. 1) Do you have any core believes? 2) Do you have any idea how your government works? 3) Why did you reward the people who hurt you in this financial crisis? I swear if I hear another one of his focus groups blather on about “he is talking about what I care about” not what he is going to do about it I am going to scream. My favorite quote from those annoying people is “he was rude” to poor little Mr. Obama. Senator, now President-elect is going to give them things. Why they were not concerned about how Joe Wurzelbacher was treated or Gov. Palin was treated? I will end with a plea. Please take a look at where this country is going, where you want it to go and then ask yourself if it is everybody else’s job to get you a job, buy you a house, pay for your healthcare, and yours or your children’s college education.