A critical election

Both the DNC and GOP conventions are history.  After a few days (hours?) of post mortems the candidates will be hitting the campaign trail for the last sixty days of what seems an interminably long, painful process.  Painful because of all the lies and distortions oneness to wade through to decide who has the best path forward for the country. It should be clear to just about everyone that Obama's policies over the past four years have not worked, in fact, cannot work.  One would expect him to offer a different set of policies for the next four years.  Surprisingly in his convention speech he chose instead to simply ask for more time for his policies to finish the job.  Since most of his policies are have been tried in Europe and in outright socialist countries over and over and have always failed, it does seem a bit cheeky for him to ask the citizens for more time to prove he's right.  However, since the welfare state policies and programs of the past 75 years have created a huge constituency of dependents, and given that the Democrat Party has more or less perfected the ability to promote and pander to these voters, he stands a pretty good chance of reelection.  His election will take the country further along the road to socialism and the inevitable ruin that social order produces.  Romney's election, on the other hand,  providing he makes good on the reforms needed to get us back to a more honest, free enterprise capitalism, should provide the course correction desperately needed.  Four more years of Obama and his crown should just about be the right amount of time to turn our economy into the basket case economies we now see in Europe.  This is an important election.