I have been pondering about Shelley Powers’ question in her long-ish essay, Can We Still Be Friends, where she asks: “If Bush is re-elected, can we still be friends?”

My short answer is pretty evident in the title, but it needs a bit of explaining. When Bill Clinton won for the second time, the Right was divided into two camps: those that foamed in the mouth, and those that didn’t. The Clinton bashers of that day have remained the same. Those that didn’t sat down, got their heads together, and came up with a plan, a platform that could actually be sold to the American public. Behold, George W. Bush.

My greatest fear in a John Kerry victory is that the fringes of the Left, the same ones that have been pushed into the mainstream and given mainstream validation, will throw the greatest orgiastic party of deconstruction and unravelling of everything that this administration has done. Taxes? Raise them to lower the deficit. Never mind that the more money remains in the hands of the private sector, the greater the growth of the economy could be. War On Terror? Oh, no such thing under the Kerry administration. Never mind that the leadership of radical Islamists want us blown to bits; what is more important to the Victorious Left, 2004 is that there are no more dead M14 fedayeen infiltrators in civilian clothes holding concealed weapons firing at our stationed troops.

The Left’s paradigm of government is that there can be not enough things to improve. In the quest to make things the best way they can be, they will trample on the Constitution, our existing laws and standards, as well as disrespect the beliefs and humanity of those they are willing to trample on in the never-ending quest for the holy grail called justice.

George Bush needs to win thisyear, in order for the Left to reevalute its priorities. Yes, we will all be stuck with George W. Bush, a president whose certain policies and beliefs I disagree with too, on some degree, but one whose “side” I generally am on. It is the only way for The Left to actually calm down and stop foaming at the mouth like beached crabs. Only then will they be taken seriously by The Rest Of Us.

That, or like the commenters on her site have indicated, there’s always Canada. Which really is a sad reaction; if there is a matter to change and a case to be made, I think the moral duty of such strong believers is to try and go ahead and duke it out in Congress. Besides, four more years of George Bush and he’ll be gone, and then there will be the rise of The Great Hillary! Clinton. Bring it on; I hope to see Ollie North and Condi Rice against her in 2008, and then we’ll really see if sanity has gripped The Left.