Presidential politics is really a very simple game. Every four years the two major political parties nominate a candidate, and an election is held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. On election night, whichever candidate reaches the magic number of 270 electoral votes is declared the winner, then he/she is sworn in as President of the United States come January 20.
This year our newly inaugurated President is Barack Hussein Obama, America’s very first black President, and arguably the most liberal President ever to take office. Why was he elected? Because the Democrat party nominated a candidate (Obama) who was a true Democrat, through and through. In fact, he is such a true Democrat that he borders on being a Socialist. The Republicans on the other hand also nominated a Democrat. Of course he calls himself a Republican, but John McCain is anything but. Although I believe McCain is a good man who served his country well both in war and peacetime, he is nonetheless a Democrat at heart. And therein lies the problem…
The Republican voters of this nation are by and large conservative, and a huge chunk of them will simply not vote for a liberal Republican for President. They don’t vote for the Democrat either of course – they choose instead to simply stay at home and do something constructive with their time. Whenever this happens the Democrat candidate wins more or less by default, and this time around it was Obama by a landslide.
The crux of the matter is this: If the Republicans want to win the next Presidential election, they MUST nominate a candidate who is a true Republican. Not a Democrat who calls himself a Republican, but a Republican. The vast majority of Democrat voters will vote for the Democrat candidate every time, so it makes no sense whatsoever to try and woo them by nominating a Democrat-like Republican. There are more than enough Republican voters in America who are ready and willing to go to the polls to elect one of their own to easily defeat most any Democrat opponent, but they must have “one of their own” to vote for in the first place. Otherwise it’ll be another four years of Democrat leadership (Lord help us!).
The Democrats always win easily when they run a Democrat against a pseudo-Democrat. Now it’s time for the Republicans to run a true Republican next time around. If they do, there is little doubt in my mind that they’ll win, and win big.