Reply #18: I have wondered that myself

[Andy823]

What I think is that the republican party pretty much knew they didn't have a chance to keep control of the country, no matter who they picked as the candidate. I think that for years, 8 of them, the big money in the republican party did as they pleased. No regulation. No bid contracts. Billions of money spent on the wars with no accountability as to where that money went. Fortunes made on wall street illegally. All kinds of things were done to this country with the idea they would keep control of things when Bush left. As long as the same crooks are in control, you can do what you want and juggle the books. But old W screwed that idea up just like all the other things he has done in his life, so they had to come up with plan B. We are living in plan B now. Plan B was to destroy the economy, and they did just that. Now we are bailing out the rich while the republicans in congress fight the president to keep him from doing any of the things he planned on to change this country. They want it back, they would rather see the country in shambles than allow the democrats to keep control. The problem is that they don't have a clue as to how to get it back, so they have become the party of NO with a drug addict, loud mouth bigot as their spokesperson, which I don't really believe was part of the plan, but since nobody else knew what to do, they followed Rush, and that will be a disaster for them!

I think the whole mess we are in was planned by the so called "powers that be" in corporate america. The greedy republicans that don't give a damn about anything by their profits. I don't think it is going to work, but they have made it much harder for president Obama to accomplish the things he really wanted to do his first term. I do think we will come out of this mess, in time, and I think the republicans have taken the path that will keep them in the darkness for years to come. Sadly even though they will be the minority in a divided party, those with the big money who caused this mess will still be the ones with the big money! They won't have the power they want, but they will keep their fortunes, and won't suffer from this mess they put us in.

In the long run the people will win also with president Obama getting us the health care we need, jobs for those who have lost them, better education for our children and grand children, and many other things that will really tick off the republicans. The country has suffered for 8 long years, and it isn't over yet. It will take time but even those who took us into this mess won't be able to keep us there.