Time for Change...Yes, Time for Changing Parties

By all accounts there was no way George W. Bush was suppose to win in 2004.  Needless to say, the Democrats found a way to lose.  They allowed the Republicans to paint John Kerry as an elitist and coward.  It worked!  One can only imagine what the Republicans will do with Barack Obama.  I just know it won't be pretty.

The Democrats are showing yet again that they are very good at losing the Presidency.  By losing races they should win they are as much to blame for the conditions in this country as the Republicans who now are in power.  You simply have to win the easy races, and the Democrats just can't seem to do it.  The fault seems to lie with leaders who just don't get it.  Leaders who can't figure out that you don't punish voters for wanting to vote early in elections, you nurture them.  After all, getting people excited about elections is a good thing, isn't it?

Leaders who allow charismatic and potentially great candidates to run for the highest office before the public has gotten to know who they are and before they have earned the trust of the people.  This is not good leadership and it will cost the Democrats the Presidency in November.

I'm tired of losing when we should be winning.  I'm not one easily swayed by red, white & blue balloons and great speeches.  I look more for simple things, like experience, trustworthiness and comfort in knowing something about the person.   Barack Obama is still a great big mystery to me.  I imagine he is a big mystery to most people in this country.  Could he be a great President?  Perhaps, but he could also be all talk, something we don't need right now.

In my college years, I knew alot of Barack Obamas.  People who talked a big game and wanted to have everything without putting in the work to get it.  More often than not, when I trusted those people they let me down.  I bought into their enthusiasm and their bullshit, and later found they didn't know a damn thing about what I needed them to do.  In fact, I have often found that the hardest workers, the most experienced workers, talk less and do more.  I'm sure that's not always the case and I hope that if Barack Obama somehow manages to win that he is the exception to the rule.  After all, I live here and want things to get  better, not worse.

I've only had two choices in my lifetime.  Democrat or Republican.  My party has disapointed me by going down the path towards defeat.  I've been down this path too many times now with my party.  I think I will go my own way now and along the way accept one concept from Barack Obama.  Change.  I need a new Party.

Anybody up for a New Party?  One that believes in winning, so that it's agenda can be put forth?  One that lets unknown candidates mature and garner the trust of its members before allowing them to run for the highest office in  the land.  One that respects the vote of all its members.  One that runs it's primaries in a way that reflect the General Election, so that it can get a real sense of the will of the people.  One that doesn't disregard the will of over 17 million votes.  Sounds like a much better deal to me.  Hope to see many of you there!