Hulaballo and Wishful Thinking

I love the fact that the leftist media in this country are still breathlessly trying to make a scandal out of Rush Limbaugh's "I hope [Obama] fails" statement. They're playing right into his hands.

The mainstream media in this country still labors under the misapprehension that they're still powerful enough to bring down someone like Limbaugh. They never learn, and they never will, which is why Rush continues to attract more and more listeners (and gets richer and richer in the process). They tried to bring him down over his addiction to oxycotin. They tried to bring him down, in conjunction with a prosecutor who is very possibly brain damaged, over phony charges of "doctor shopping." They tried their best to support Harry Reid's efforts to intimidate the owners of Clear Channel into rebuking their most profitable commodity. None of these things worked. They will never learn, and it is in Rush's interest that they never do.

Let me go down on record as adding to the scandal: I too hope President Obama fails in many ways. I hope he fails to expand the scope of abortion in this country. I hope he fails to destroy the definition of marriage that has stood since the dawn of time. I hope he fails to "spread the wealth around." I hope he fails to make any inroads into diplomacy with Iran--we don't need to make nice with apocalyptic terrorist thugs. I hope he fails to raise my taxes. I hope he fails to make the teachers' union lobby any more powerful, well funded or bloated than it already is.

In many ways I also hope that President Obama succeeds, for the good of this country. I hope he succeeds in coming to the realization that his socialist schoolboy daydreams aren't going to cut it in the real world, and that he'd better tack to the center as quickly as possible. I hope he succeeds in maturing to the point where he can see that Keynesian economics suck and that supply-side economics rock. I hope he succeeds in killing Osama Bin Laden. He can have that one. Who gets credit doesn't matter to me one jot. I hope he succeeds with his plan to ramp up the troop levels in Afghanistan, and I hope he succeeds in realizing that this is not to be achieved by prematurely withdrawing troops from Iraq. I hope he succeeds in realizing that the question when of life begins really isn't "above his pay grade," and that you don't get to punt and dodge when you're the President--that you have to be a man.

The bottom line is, I hope America succeeds, whether Obama has to fail or succeed to bring it about.