Hopelessly Unchanging

I was just reading through some posts from November 2008.  A couple days after the election, I wrote;

Sure.. losing in 2000 and 2004 sucked. It's the price that had to be paid to expose Conservatism as a failed ideology and pave the way for an entirely new brand of politics in America. Seems it was all for the best after all.

Turns out.. it wasn't a 'new brand of politics' at all.  It's the same shit every time no matter who gets elected. That's why I'd like to see Romney win.  Unfortunately, it's looking like Obama is going to win.

The glass-half-full perspective would be that Obama will turn out to be the guy we thought he was going to be in a second term, as he wouldn't be running for re-election again.