It finally hit me……

My husband has said to me, “Americans do not necessarily vote into office the ‘best’ man for the job; We vote for the man we NEED to be in that office.” Americans elect the man most needed at the time. That man was not McCain this time. The white, elite man may never again be the man we need. And he is correct, I think.
Ultimately, that’s why Palin failed to be effective, as well. She is not the reason the Republican agenda failed. But, she was not what was needed to solve the problems of this country either. Hockey moms are good for solving status quo problems. They do not lead nations out of peril. They kiss boo-boos on skinned knees. Sure, they can govern a state, too. That is a lot like running a really big business. Hockey moms do that all over the country every day.
No, our country did not NEED more white male elitism (their era IS ending…not too many of them left). It did not NEED the Hockey mom to kiss its collective skinned knee. Our injuries are more of a trauma unit sort of nature. They are coding us, we just aren’t aware of it yet. What we needed is an entirely different perspective if the collective untit is going to survive. We NEED the Black Man. The one who we perceive as having a genetic predisposition to survival, the one so immersed in multicultural lifestyle that he HAS to be the one to connect with us ALL.
Yes, given my husband’s theory, we need Barack Obama. And now, he gets prayed for everyday in this household, after my husband and kids…his spot in the list is right after the Pope.
We will one day NEED a woman in there. Maybe a mother of five…maybe the battle-axe office bitch….Who knows. I think it largely depends on what our circumstances happen to be at the time. Maybe after Obama we will need the Hockey Mom to kiss our skinned knee after Dad tells us ‘to rub some dirt in it and get moving’.
I am uneasy. But that has more to do with the fact that I am conservative. We generally do not take change well. Liberals love change…they thrive on a constant diet of it. That’s why we cannot get along. I certainly do not take change well. I do not like sudden difference. It puts me in a tailspin. I was much more flexible to change when I was young(er). But I am not younger now. I want stability and status quo. I want boring and settled. I want things to work. They are not working anymore. The machine is broken and needs to be replaced by a newer, different model that we must learn all over again.
But, we will learn. And I believe that God wanted this man in office now, or he would not have been elected. I love that conservative Christians, my brothers and sisters, cannot concede that God willed this, but they will admit that HE WILLED George Bush to be elected. Be certain, God’s plan included them both. Our great nation is being judged and found wanting and he gave our nation what she asked for and chose….
But then a lot of people who pass themselves as Christian are actually evil Republicans. Christian and Republican are not the same thing. They are most definitely not synonymous. A lot of Christians vote republican. A lot of Republicans pretend to be Christian. I do not think it is possible that a diehard Republican CAN be a Christian. But I digress. This is a totally different, albeit related, rant I should reserve for another day.
Our situation lost McCain the race. Sarah Palin, if anything, gave his campaign a much needed boost. Without her, this thing would have been called much, much sooner.
Given better circumstances in our country and the world, I would love to see her in the White House. I like her. I always will. I believe she is perfectly capable of governing an entire country. Hell, Alaska practically is its own country! I just cannot see her being effective against these problems.