The Conservative Cat

Ideally, the "people of Iraq" would see this election as a wakeup call and do as you suggest. Realistically, there are so very few "Iraqis" that a wakeup call of this sort is unlikely to have the desired effect. *sigh* Most folks inhabiting the geopolitical fiction labeled "Iraq" are really members of millenia-old tribal and religious factions that have centuries upon centuries of rivalries and grudges to pursue, not a national identity to cling to.

Fortunately, the--so far--successful Petraeus strategy has been to engage these various factions in cleaning up their own little corners of Iraq with support from the necessarily (given the deeply riven tribal/religious factions) weak central government. It's a variation on one of only two governing strategies that have worked (and are familiar to the cultural memories of the various peoples groups) in that region sice the time of Babylon: either effectively partition the rival peoples groups or rule them with an iron fist.

Of course, an Obama-Winfrey/Hildebeast/Snake McCain presidency /would/ insure an ongoing and accellerated alien invasion and complete surrender of our nation's sovereignty (read their lips" they say "amnesty" no matter what the sounds issuing seem to say).

As to this election (and all future elections) I'm beginning my campaign this week to have all state constitutions amended to /require/ "None of the above" to be added to ALL elective positions on ballots, and to require that, should "None of the above" recieve a plurality of the vote for any ballot position that the slate should be wiped clean and an entirely new slate of candidates for that position offered.

When that utopian day arrives, I'll probably vote "None of the above" for four or five straight general elections...

We need to forget the "damned if you do, damned if you don't" choices for President and focus on making the Congress as conservative and partisan as we can. Even if Republicans are still a minority, make it a noisy, obstinate minority.

Well, I was (am) a Ron Paul supporter, so the McCain/Huckabee/Romney vote was somewhat irrelevant to me. I assumed my guy would not be winning any states last night, and that Huckabee would win more than the media would have liked.