I don’t necessarily buy the argument that Sarah Palin lost the election, but she wasn’t the ideal choice. She appealed to social conservatives, and while social conservatives weren’excited about McCain, who else were they going to vote for? What he would have needed was someone who could draw votes from the center, and, ideally, from an area where McCain was weak, drawing votes away from Obama. Joe Lieberman would have been one option who fit both criteria.

Meanwhile, Obama presented himself as everything that Bush isn’t. He is an articulate speaker who can inspire people, and while Bush was almost proud of saying his two sources of information are Fox News and Rush Limbaugh, Obama demonstrated that he reads newspapers, including op-ed pieces he doesn’t personally agree with.

This will force the Republican Party to regroup, do some soul searching, and hopefully figure out what it stands for now, and that will be good for everyone. And contrary to what the talking heads want everyone to believe, no man can singlehandedly destroy this country in four or even eight years. A very good history teacher told me 16 years ago that the best thing that can happen after one party has been in charge for a long time is to hand things over to the other one. It keeps the country from veering off too far in one direction or another. At age 17, I couldn’t really understand that yet. Now, having witnessed 8 years of Clinton followed by 8 years of Bush, I can see what he was talking about.

While Palin was portraid as an idiot and it is easy to take comments out of context. Do not get me started on the comments and inconsistencies of Obama, Biden( as late as last week!). Then there is the money all I can say is Hillary proved you could buy a Senate seat and the republicans simply didn’t or couldn’t compete this year. Will there be that much change? I am comforted in knowing that Obama has talked the talk but if he follows his record there will be little action to follow that talk unless he personally benefits .