If you think it is bad now . . .

As Barack Obama begins his fourth year as President of the United States, the country begins the process of deciding who will be President for the next four years. If you think this last three have been horrible for the country, imagine what an additional five will bring.

It is fairly obvious that the Democratic candidate for the general election in 2012 will be Barack Obama as no one from his party is stepping up to run against him. Therefore the choice in November 2012 will come down to whomever the Republicans nominate and Obama.

The Republican primaries, especially in the early voting states, are sure to be heated. It has been decades, though, since the Presidential nominee for either major party has not wrapped up a nomination bid before the summer conventions. Therefore, a majority of the party members will have to make voices heard in forums, straw polls, and with contributions to favorite candidates a long time before the primaries.

There are some capable people running for the Republican nomination. Some have good ideas in one area while others may shine in another area. But here is the bottom line: anyone of them would make a much better President than Barack Obama.

Now and for the next 11 months is not the time to be petulant. If your preferred candidate did not get the Republican nomination, it will be important to jump on a different Republican wagon and vote for whomever is the nominee. Don’t sit at home pouting; don’t vote for a third party candidate; and for heaven’s sake don’t vote for Obama! Any of those three will guarantee that Obama continues to destroy our country from the inside out until 2016 (if we survive that long).

So if you think this last few years of class warfare, increased government spending and debt, nanny-state regulations, weak and apologetic foreign policy, and ObamaCare have been disastrous, wait and see what happens to the country if we have four more years of the same – multiplied exponentially by a factor of billions.