You can say all you want about President Obama.  He is a consistent man of his beliefs.  He may permanently damage the United States with his loathing of anything American, but you cannot deny that from day one in office that he has remained laser focused on obtaining his ultimate goals.  Whether it is the destruction of the finest healthcare system in the world, endangering the strongest military in the world, destroying the reputation of the United States as an ally who can be counted on or in the promotion of every single item on the socialists’ dream list, Barack Obama has been unsurprisingly consistent.

As many astute observers pointed out during Obama’s rise to the Presidency, you can get to know someone by looking at the company he keeps.  Look at the mentors who helped nurture and develop Barack Obama and you’ll not be surprised by any of his policies nor pronouncements.  He is focused on remaking the United States by using every tool in the Presidential arsenal including executive orders, a willful disregard for the U. S. Constitution, promoting a strangling Federal bureaucracy and attacking just about every piece of the American fabric.  However inept, crude and bumbling that the President may have been in executing his agenda, he has made up for it with a singular devotion to the greater goals of those who have made his accidental Presidency possible.

Which brings us to the sorry state of affairs in the Democrat Party.  President Obama gave no thought to the long game as he put together his administration of misfits and miscreants.  His policies and legislative agenda did a superb job of clearing the Democratic bench of some of its best players in both the U.S. Senate and the House.  Just about any Democrat with a moderate bone in their body has gone down to defeat in the off-year elections of 2010 and 2014.  Obama’s cabinet appointments have been excellent for promoting redistribution of wealth and the implementation of the President’s vision for his America, but not a single cabinet member, save Hillary Clinton, has emerged from the pack as someone with a potential future in elective politics.  Finally, President Obama squandered an excellent chance to perpetuate his questionable legacy by not choosing a Vice-President who could be a force at the polls and continue the current race to the bottom.  Of course, Joe Biden was never a threat to the President but neither was he a potential threat to Republicans.

President Obama’s failure to attend to the health and future of the Democrat Party will ultimately doom his legacy.  As the days of 2015 begin to dwindle down, we are left with the best that the Democrat Party has to offer for 2016.

We have the frontrunner, Hillary Clinton, and all the glories of times past.  Devoid of original ideas or any scintilla of inspiration, she brings nothing to the Presidential race except the same dirty money, financial manipulators and apologists who were the hallmark of Bill Clinton’s Administration.  The nuclear financial meltdown of 2008 can be directly traced to the same people who are supporting Hillary Clinton’s current campaign.  She reminds me of Greece, lots of ruins to look at but nothing that speaks to the future.

Then we have Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.  He is an unabashed socialist.  The best I can say about Senator Sanders is that he is at least honest about what he wants to get done.  His campaign rallies have been one part Woodstock and one part One Up on Wall Street.

Finally, we have has been Governor Martin O’Malley of Maryland.  He did such a great job as Governor in his perpetually blue state that a Republican now leads the people of Maryland.  His current strategy seems to be to go shirtless as much as possible.  Let’s hope his Democratic opponents don’t try to match that strategy.

The bottom line is that the Democrat Party has sunk to unimaginable depths when it comes to new ideas and talented spokesmen.  They are like a professional football team that finishes last in the league, is at the salary cap and has no draft picks.  Do wa ditty, trouble in Demo city!

In contrast, the Republican Party has an embarrassment of wealth when it comes to new ideas, fresh faces and eloquent spokesmen and spokeswomen.  The bench is deep and getting deeper by the minute.  In fact, the biggest challenge facing the Republican Party is how to run an effective winnowing process involving so many talented candidates without it being portrayed by a desperately liberal press as a political circus.  The Democrats should be lucky enough to have this problem.

It now appears that there could easily be sixteen or more serious contenders for the Republican Presidential nomination representing the considerable breadth and depth of the Republican Party.  Extremely capable candidates who can not only express a vision for our country, but also raise campaign funds to get that vision exposed to the voting public.

The difference between the Democrat Party and the Republican Party at this time is somewhat akin to the difference in toilet paper options between a grocery store in Russia and a Krogers in Muncie.

One wonders when that sickening feeling of nausea will begin to sink in with the leadership of the Democrat Party when the realization hits them that the party that they decried as dead in 2008, is now poised to completely eat their electoral lunch.  It is not a good feeling.  As a Republican, I’ve felt the feeling before.  That my friends is the nature of the political beast.  If you let your guard down for one minute, your world can be upended before you know it.

To paraphrase Dickens, 2015 is the best of times and the worst of times for the tale of two political parties.  Madame DeFarge awaits the Democrat Party in 2016.