Jim Ewart of South Carolina is clearly more with it than South Carolina’s throwback governor Mark Sandford.
Jim Ewart is a Vietnam War veteran who calls John McCain ‘a great American’ and gave the Arizona senator’s presidential campaign $500.
Ewart, though, is glad Barack Obama won the election.
‘It needed to be a Democrat,’ Ewart said. ‘I’ve got a ton of respect for McCain, but I knew that some money had to be spent to save our industry, and for that matter maybe to save the whole damn country.’
That’s part of the reason the President has the approval he does. Besides the dead-ender 26%ers – mostly the same people who still think the Iraq War was a great idea and that Barack Obama is a muslim secret agent – Americans across the spectrum know that to get the economy going again we have to invest in it. And that doesn’t mean the Paris Hilton class tax cuts that helped to get us into trouble in the first place.
I predict you’re going to see many more moderate Republicans finding their voice after being silenced for 8 long years of the Bush disaster, as they are now recognizing with astonishing clarity that blindly opposing the most popular President in history while offering no alternatives or options, demonizing a Latina Supreme Court nominee as a racist and allowing the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly to frame political debate with innuendo, slander and falsehoods, will NOT gain them anything but further isolation from reality and the vast majority of their population. The hard truth is that the GOP has no one to blame but itself for allowing the radical Neo-Con element of their party to sabotage their political credibility; the only way forward for them is to accept that their 8 year message of all things Bush = success has been a miserable failure, and that espousing a return to those woeful policies will not win them any new converts in the future. I for one, cannot wait to have them attempt to convince Americans and the world at large that Sarah Palin is their best hope for redefining their message, and providing a serious challenge for President Obama in 2012; the jokes will write themselves.