I can truly sympathize with your desire not to have your life dominated by politics.  It is a desire most Americans share, and it is one of the things that has long differentiated America from most other countries.  However, your desire for all this to be OVER on November 5th, will NOT, sadly, come true.

If McCain pulls off the win, (and it is likely to be very close, either way) there are not enough mental health professionals on the PLANET to handle the outbreak of insanity that will follow because Democrats think they have this election in the bag.  (They’ve got Mickey Mouse registered to vote in all 50 states for crying out loud!)  Bush Derangement Syndrome, even Palin Derangement Syndrome will be AS NOTHING compared to 4 to 8 years of McCain Derangement Syndrome.

On the other hand should Obama win, poltics will not “go away” for you either, because a President Obama will directly impact your life too much.  Your taxes, of course, will go up; any Obama supporter who tells you different probably lies about other things as well because Obama and the Democrats are going to allow the Bush tax cuts to expire, resulting in a tax increase for everyone.  That promised tax cut?  Remember what happened to Clinton’s.

Second, the economy will continue to tank because Obama is proposing to implement the same set of fixes that made President Hoover such a success.  The likely resulting Republican takeover of Congress in 2010 could finally bring the recession/depression to an end, but only if they get veto-proof majorities because, unlike Clinton, nothing in Obama’s background or attitude suggests that he is capable of “learning a lesson”.  And that redistribution of wealth Obama likes to talk about?  That means taking YOUR wealth and giving it to more deserving people, like the lazy.  Democrats are ALREADY holding hearings about confiscating your 401K’s and replacing them with another Social Security check.  (I don’t know about you, but the reason I wanted a 401K in the first place was the assumption that Social Security would be bankrupt by then.)

Third, you are probably going to have to start dodging terrorist attacks at home.  Democrats who have spent the last 8 years comparing Bush’s so far successful attempts to prevent another attack to Hitler’s Germany are simply not going to be capable of sustaining this record.  Moreover, if they succeed in their stated goal of abandoning Iraq (and Iraq’s oil reserves) to al Qaeda, we will be facing a reinvigorated enemy flush with oil money.

Fourth, you are likely to find out that your Constitutional Rights don’t mean much to a Supreme Court armed with pencils and erasers.  Poltics aside, the reason “judicial activism” is a such a bad idea is because a Constitution that means whatever 5 justices SAY that it means, regardless of what is actually written there, has no value whatsoever.  Sure, it is an easy backdoor way to quickly impose your will on a majority that refuses to vote the way you think they should (think legalizing abortion, gay marriage, outlawing guns, etc.), but if you can do it to them, they can do it to you, and a country ruled by 5 Supreme Court justices “making it up as they go” is no longer a free country.

Thus, no matter what the outcome on Tuesday, the partisan warfare will continue and probably get worse.  The only choice we have on Tuesday is to decide whether we want our lives to get worse, too.