An Obama-Pelosi government will be "the point of no return."

For those of you resigning yourselves to an Obama victory and telling yourself that at least an Obama presidency would be good for the GOP in the long run because Obama would be so radical that the electorate would recoil in horror and elect a conservative as the next president: Have you people lost your $%#@%$@@ minds?

Listen to Mark Steyn:

I agree with Thomas Sowell that an Obama-Pelosi supermajority will mark what he calls “a point of no return”. It would not be, as some naysayers scoff, “Jimmy Carter’s second term”, but something far more transformative. The new president would front the fourth great wave of liberal annexation — the first being FDR’s New Deal, the second LBJ’s Great Society, and the third the incremental but remorseless cultural advance when Reagan conservatives began winning victories at the ballot box and liberals turned their attention to the other levers of the society, from grade school up.

You think that once government-rationed health plan is in place, that’s ever going to be repealed? Hell, we couldn’t even kill off the Department of Education in its infancy when the country turned right with Ronald Reagan. A Republican congress in the 90s couldn’t even bring itself to de-fund the National Endowment for the Arts after it sponsored shows featuring a crucifix in urine, a bullwhip stuck up a guy’s ass, and a naked feminist rubbing chocolate all over herself to protest oppression or some such shit.

The only things conservatives and/or Republicans have accomplished is to slow down the “progressive” train once in a while. You really think a post-Obama conservative is going to turn it around? No, we will be headed squarely for a European fate. From the same piece by Steyn:

In Europe, lavish social-democratic government has transformed citizens into eternal wards of the nanny state: the bureaucracy’s assumption of every adult responsibility has severed Continentals from the most basic survival impulse, to the point where unaffordable entitlements on shriveled birth rates have put a question mark over some of the oldest nation states on earth. A vote for an Obama-Pelosi-Barney Frank-ACORN supermajority is a vote for a Europeanized domestic policy that is, as the eco-types like to say, “unsustainable”.

There will be plenty more talk of hope if Obama gets elected. My own will be all but gone. (Yeah, I know McLovin’ will tell me I’m being too pessimistic.)

UPDATE (10/27/08) : Just catching up on some podcasts, and Mark Levin was really railing on this Friday.