Thoughts on the Election

One thing that I find depressing is the complete lack of understanding people have when it comes to the President-Elect. With his idea of "Change" he brings in everyone who has been in Washington for all these years causing the problems we now face.
Now I don't mean to say that Bush has been perfect for the past 8 years. Too many "compassionate conservative" bills and too many RINOs in Congress drunk with power and forsaking conservative ideals has caused the country to look differently at the Republican party. Where does that leave the party? Hopefully regrouping and realizing that conservative ideals win elections. At the end of the day most Americans don't want Big Government. True conservatism is anti big government. And the Republicans in office, what little remain, aren't seeing that at all.
Obama on the other hand won this election by promoting big government. He espoused a Civil Security Force with the manning and funding of the current military, whose budget already is well over $500 billion. He promoted the Fairness Doctrine, which is now being re branded as Localism. Sometimes all it takes is a name change and everyone forgets what the previous iteration was called. It is appalling how many sheep are in America and voting.
McCain's rise to power wasn't very encouraging either. Somehow he was able to sway the electorate into believing he was a true conservative and the sheep who nominated him to represent this party in the national election. I find it hard to believe that he was the first pick of true conservatives. But we were stuck with him and while I for one hated the idea of voting for him I held my nose and did anyway. Partly due to the fact he chose a true conservative to be his running mate. Looking back, I may have not even have voted in the national election if he had chosen anyone with the same thinking as himself.
Now, as the economy continues to collapse, Obama will walk into office facing tough decisions. Hopefully all this will give him pause and keep him from enacting the legislation that he wants. Government is not the answer and bigger government is even worse. The only way to save this country is to get back to basics. We need to put the power back into the people and the states. The 10th Amendment is one that needs to be re-read by everyone in Congress. And Obama, being a constitutional lawyer, would be well served by acquainting himself with this oft forgotten restriction on the grasp of the federal government which reads:

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Powerful words indeed.