During the months leading up to the election, Democrats kept parroting the phrase that McCain was Bush’s 3rd term. I didn’t see it. I claimed it was Bush’s 2nd term, referring to President George H.W. Bush. I saw more parallels there than with the most recent President Bush. That was not the only similarity that I saw, however. I strongly believed, and believe even more so that Obama was simply running for Carter’s 2nd term. I wanted neither. Republicans let the media choose our nominee. That did us a lot of good, didn’t it? America needs the Republicans to begin looking for a nominee who will be for a smaller, restrained government.