Well, I have heard the continual banging of the drum from the Left, saying that President Obama hasn’t done this, hasn’t done that, isn’t committed to this, isn’t committed to that.
Imagine that the Democrats had not taken control of Congress in 2006. Imagine that they had not extended their margins in 2008.
Imagine President McClain and Vice President Palin.
Well, some of you think that we would be better off, since President Obama hasn’t done enough. The reality is that a continuation of Bush II policies would have led is to destruction, economically and socially.
Let’s look at a world if the Republicans had won the Congressional and Presidential elections.
Start with the Supreme Court nominees under President McClain? Sotomayer and Kagan? More likely twins of Scalia and Thomas. Seven to two – every SCOTUS decision.
Wanna go there?
Do you really want to go there? Repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell?” Not only would “DADT” not be repealed, it would be reinforced under a McClain administration. Gay rights would be, at best, a fleeting memory – a “wish list” for gays and lesbians. The hostility of Republicans towards gays and lesbians would be the law of the land, with no exceptions. One of the central planks of the GOP is opposition to gay rights.
Wanna go there?
Under President Obama there is hope for the gay and lesbian community. Under President McClain, there would be no hope, but a high probability of government sanctioned, continued discrimination against gays and lesbians, in the military, in the government, in business and in their private lives.
Wanna go there?
Let’s go back to 1987. The SCOTUS ruled that sodomy laws were constitutional and that average Americans, homosexual and heterosexual, could be arrested and prosecuted and jailed for those crimes. Under a conservative president, the rightward slat of the Court would be even more pronounced and laws such as that might pass “constitutional” muster.
Wanna go there?
Well, the question is rhetorical – the election was won – but it could have happened in 2008, and it may happen in 2012.
Before the progressives of America turn our backs on President Barack Obama, think about what could have been and what yet may be.
William Stephenson Clark
PrairiePopulistsAndProgressives.net 