Watching the Republican National Convention this week, one could get a sense of high drama. Betrayal by the federal government. A need for change. John McCain, help us! Yet funnily, this party that is so gung-ho on change has had, well, only eight years to do it in. Yes, as some Republicans will argue, the last two years the Democrats had Congress, but they still had George Bush in the White House. Why didn't he propose any of this change we're all hearing about? What was his energy plan? His education plan? His plan for the economy? Why didn't he reform Washington, as John McCain now seeks to do?
The answer, sadly, bodes ill for our country if John McCain beats Barack Obama in the fall. You see, eight years ago, a western Republican ran for office as a Washingotn outsider, a reformer, a bipartisan player. And he turned out to be George W. Bush, who has been anything but the aforementioned descriptions. Instead, he and the GOP have dangerously led this country to war, ignored global warming, remained obstinate on creating a new energy policy, let the environment be trashed away, and allowed the current mortage meltdown to unfold. Meanwhile, Social Security remains unfixed, health care continues in its sorry state, and No Child Left Behind maintains its strangehold on public schools. And, John McCain is even more hawkish than the man that brought us the mess in Iraq. To think that such a similar GOP candidate is now practically tied in the polls with Sen. Obama and has decent chance of winning the presidency, is, well, frightening.
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