Aren't you glad McCain did not win?

I staked out a very unpopular position in the 2008 presidential campaign with my book "None of the Above."

But the essence of my message has already been proof-tested by the first year of Barack Obama's administration.

Die-hard Republicans hated me for urging my constituency not to fall for the lesser-of-two-evils trap – and that John McCain would be a constitutionally challenged "business-as-usual president." Die-hard Democrats hated me for stating plainly and clearly that Obama was a demagogue who would seek to transform the country into a socialist people's republic and thus create the biggest and most necessary grass-roots backlash in American political history.

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I also went so far as to suggest that, even though voting for Obama would be "immoral" and "sinful," his election as president – be it legitimate or illegitimate – would be better for the country long-term than the election of McCain.

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I don't know how many people listened to me. It doesn't seem like many bought the book. But you can hardly dispute the results.

Does anybody think we would be better off with McCain in the White House today?

Let me tell you where we would be had McCain won.

The Democratic Congress would have pushed through most of its illegitimate, unconstitutional legislation. And, instead of a Democratic president signing it gleefully, a Republican president would have done so in almost every case.

And, instead of facing the biggest congressional midterm election revolution in American history this November, citizens would be despairing of their lack of political choices.

Whom would they blame?

Could they possibly blame Democrats – when a Republican president was going along with most of their agenda?

We should get down on our knees and thank God for chastising America with the election of Barack Obama.

We needed it.

We got the message loud and clear.

We are going to do our best to repent this November and beyond.

We got the wake-up call.

I know this is hard for many political activists to comprehend. Only now are some of them beginning to acknowledge what I laid out so clearly 18 months ago:

• Barack Obama is con man.
• Barack Obama is a socialist usurper.
• Barack Obama wouldn't recognize the Constitution if he wiped his feet on it.
• Barack Obama fundamentally doesn't like America.
• Barack Obama creates crises to transform America.
• Barack Obama has contempt for most meaningful American political institutions.
• Barack Obama seeks dependency for individual Americans and the country as a whole.
• Barack Obama's values are aberrant from those of most Americans.

I could go on and on, but you get the picture. But here's one more – the punch line: Barack Obama will turn out to be a pivotal turning point in American history – effectively transforming America more fundamentally and positively, even though unintentionally, than the great Ronald Reagan.

"Ironic" is not a powerful enough word to encompass the magnitude of how Obama is going to be the undoing of everything for which he stands.

There would be no tea-party movement without him.

There would be no grass-roots uprising without him.

There would be no congressional takeover strategy by Republicans this year without him.

There would be no awakening of the electorate without him.

There would be little focus on the Constitution, again, without him.

There would be no nostalgia about the good old days of American prosperity and triumph without him.

There would be no marching in the streets without him.

Do I need to go on?

Do I need to ask, again? Aren't we glad McCain wasn't elected?

Not only did we not need McCain in 2008, we don't need what he represents any more in the presidency or the Congress.

It's time not only to purge ourselves of Obama and Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. It's time to purge ourselves of the John McCain Republicans – those who want to head off in the same misguided national direction Obama has chosen, but just at a slightly slower rate of speed.

Our leaders are a judgment on us.

We seldom turn away from our national sins as quickly and decisively as we will this year.

As I wrote in "None of the Above" in 2008, every generation seems to have to relearn the lessons of the past for itself.

This is the generation that knew not Reagan.

But we are about to become reacquainted with his policies.

For this I am thankful to Barack Obama.