Republicans Not Beloved

The GOP appears poised to make great gains in next week's elections, but these strides are not so much an endorsement of their ideas as a repudiation of Obama's. In many eyes, Republicans are merely Democrat-lite or sort of lesser socialists whereas the Democratic party has embraced redistributionist schemes and has become the party of full blown socialism in America. Conservatives were disappointed by the last President Bush's free spending (though it pales in comparison to Obama's deluge of debt) and especially outraged by the push for illegal alien amnesty that disgusted most of the political spectrum except entrenched business interests in search of cheap labor. No group was as aggrieved as aliens who entered legally and jumped through all the hoops that the United States imposes to gain legal residency. But then both major political parties were foisting line-jumping criminal aliens ahead of those who followed the proper processes of entry. Republicans have no panaceas because with such complex issues ahead, there are no easy answers, but at least they can if elected and if they stick to the principles of smaller, less intrusive government, stauch the national hemorrhage caused by Obama's overheated spending. But mark my words, if Republicans in name only sieze the day and make common cause with Democrats, there will be a third party emerging from America's conservatives, perhaps under the TEA (taxed enough already) party brand.