I hate to say it, but I predicted this outcome in my June 4, 2008 post :

2008 - The Year of the Black Man - Obama Will Cream McCain!

Barack Obama’s victory was an historic one. As the first black man to become President, he has broken a barrier that signals a new era for African Americans in our national political sceen. He was just too charismatic and the media was too biased in his favor for any other outcome.

Now that it has come to pass, it behooves our nation that we as Americans should all give our new President elect the benefit of our respect and support as he moves forward to lead our nation.

Senator John McCain and Governor Sarah Palin ran a good compaign and McCain showed great character in his concession speech. My wife and I attended a Palin rally at the State Fairgrounds in Raleigh on the Saturday before the election. There were 10,000 people inside and another 3,000 plus standing outside the building. But alas, Palin was too little too late to motive the conservative Christian base to come to the McCain banner. Apparently, the independent vote did not materialize for him either.

That said, it’s my opinion that any Republican Presidential candidate would have faced a difficult task in going against the national craze that motived millions of new and formerly disaffected voters from pushing Obama to victory.

Senator Obama apparently generated enough excitement to have strong coattails for other Democrats to follow him to victory. Let’s hope they follow through on their victory speeches and represent all Americans as they serve in public office. Conservatives and values voters should be on our guard for the liberal push that may follow a Democrat majority in both houses of Congress and the White House.

While it has become fashionable to bash President George W. Bush, this blogger is thankful for his tenure as Commander in Chief in defending American from further Islamic terrorist attacks. Let us pray that President Obama will do as well protecting America as Commander in Chief. I am also thankful for his appointment of two great jurists to the U.S. Supreme Court, Roberts and Alito. I fear a liberal judicial activist appointment by Obama. I just wish Bush hadn’t increased government spending so much and that he’d kept a better eye on Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Wallstreet.

Some of my Democrat friends have accused me of being in the tank for the GOP. Let me make it clear, I am in the tank for the sanctity of life, prolife, and the sanctity of traditional marriage, one man and one woman. These social values drive my political activism and I can support no political candidate for any office who is willing to sacrifice unborn children to slaughter or aid and abet the radical homosexuals in destroying marriage and using government force to teach our children that two daddies or two mommies are as valid as a mother and father. If the Democrats should ever abandon their pro-abortion, pro-radical homosexual positions, then I will consider voting for them and if the Republicans ever abandon the family, then I will abandon them.

Family, faith and freedom are my voting criteria. In 2012, I think a Huckabee-Palin ticket would be a winner.