REFLECTIONS

Last night I stayed up to watch the first returns of the New Hampshire Presidential primary from Dixon Notch. McCain was leading the GOP with 4 out of 17 voters while Obama got 7 out of the 17 voters. Dixon Notch had 100% turnout. Oh, Hillary got zip.

Now, the Democratics have been harping about CHANGE in ’08 and the GOP candidates have started me-too’ing that term. I shall go out on a limb and propose that it isn’t change as toward a nanny government but instead the nation want the country to stop being run by only two families as it has been for twenty years: Bushs and Clintons. Could there be a weariness of the old, tired phrase of red state and blue state hype? Maybe we just want to be red, white, and blue again.

In the early years of our republic, Rep. Edmond Randolph of Virgina said to his fellow congressmen that “Change is not Reform.” Change for the sake of change is not necessary an improvement. In particular if I understand what is being said at the Democrat debates, their sense of change is toward socialism a la Europe.