GOPHers Unite!

After eight years of supporting a presidency that nearly destroyed the American economy, conservatives have now decided that it is time to complain.

Now, not in 2000 when the Supreme Court decided to throw out an election and give the White House to the guy in second place in both the electoral and popular vote. Nor in 2000 when the Democrats were looking to extend the peace and prosperity the country had achieved.

Instead conservatives choose someone who managed to quickly bankrupt the economy through tax cuts and an ill conceived war in Iraq.

So four years later surely the conservatives must have risen up in anger and sought a return to peace and prosperity. No, they turned out in droves to continue the path of deficits and war.

And in 2008, as the economy was falling off the cliff, did they abandon the GOP? For the most part no. Sen. John McCain received 46% of the vote, only 2% less than Gov. Bush received in 2000.

But now, upset that their candidates no longer have the opportunity to lead the country to ruin, they have decided it is time to protest. They say they are afraid of what will happen to the country. Instead they are probably more afraid that just as the Democrats fixed the economy in the 1990s after Bush I, they will fix the economy again after Bush II.

Maybe they need to rename the Republican party from the Grand Old Party to the Grand Old Party of Hypocrites, or GOPHers.