"Liberal"

The other day, I was talking to a friend that I hadn't talked to in a while. Aside from the usual catching up and all, we talked about politics and how the Democrats were basically taking over the government, though they are having trouble agreeing with one another. How sad - even the fact that the executive and legislative branches are currently dominated by the same party cannot streamline the red tape of bureaucratic government. What struck me about the conversation, however, was that my friend was actually quite the Republican in terms of his points of view - he believed that the government should let the economy be, he was a conservative in terms of abortion, gun control, and the like, and he even saw some sense in the Bush Doctine, "even though it needs a hell of a lot of tweaking". He, however, voted for Obama in the last election. When I asked him why, he jokingly stated, "Well, isn't it all the rage to be liberal now?"

Even though he was just being humorous, I found this statement truer than ever. The Republican Party is in such shambles that no self respecting person who isn't far right on the political spectrum would currently support them. Especially after the tremendous media bloodbath on the already torn carcass of the GOP, due to characters like Sarah "ethic-complaints-are-the-least-of-my-woes" Palin, Mark "Argentine mistress" Sanford and Bobby "Kenneth-the-Page" Jindal. The media is probably now waiting at GOP throne hopefuls like Haley Barbour and Tim Pawlenty just so they can be the first to witness the fall of the next GOP great. The dismantled party is now even turning away moderate conservatives away because of their horrible track record.

This is, of course, from the opinion of an outsider who's just happy to see a President of the United States who other states can finally respect and look up to. I wonder what people who actually under the umbrella of the social contract of the country feel.