The Bright Side of the ’08 Elections

Is there any bright side to the ’08 elections for conservatives? Sure, there’s plenty of reason for hope, if not change.

1. McCain didn’t win. Wait, that’s a good thing? Well, maybe McCain wouldn’t have been as bad as Obama in the short run, but there’s no question McCain was still a negative. At least now we conservatives don’t have to defend ourselves an explain that McCain isn’t anywhere close to being a conservative whenever he does something in the White House. McCain’s career is coming to a close, and that’s good for conservatives and for the Republican party.

2. Democrat majorities. The Democrats are decidedly in power, and that means the blame for whatever the Democrats do in the next four years can’t be put on Republicans. Oh, I’m sure it will be somehow as it has been with the housing/financial crisis, but it will at least make the case more difficult.

3. A black man is President. No matter how much you disagree with Obama’s alleged policies, you have to admit it’s something of a relief to have a black guy as President. Despite Clarence Thomas, Colin Powell, and Condaleeza Rice, people still thought that America was a wildly racist country. Hopefully we can get rid of some of that thinking, and hopefully the idea that blacks are being held back by The Man has been shattered. Hopefully, although I won’t be surprised if it has zero effect. After all, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton still need to make money somehow, and they don’t make it by telling black people that everything is ok.

4. Prop 8 passed. I don’t doubt but what this is only a speed bump to those who are attacking marriage and families, but a speed bump is better than no speed bump.

5. Democrats didn’t get 60 in the House. A filibuster-proof House would have made it that much easier for the Democrat leadership to pass their agenda.

Got any more? I’m sure there are some, if you are a glass-half-full kind of person.