I've read several of your responses to the letters posted herein, which depict that you have a stable mind, so I humbly request your response to the following musings.

Now that the left have installed their president, he will have to govern according to the dictates of reality rather than ideology or he will fail to keep America safe or prosperous. For the sake of my own amusement, I've been reading the left's mournful responses to Obama's centrist appointments. It seems they are now waking up to the fact that the real test of any ideology's validity per se is whether it works in the real world rather than whether it works in campaign rhetoric or political opposition.

So what policies have worked these 8 years past? Certainly, tax cuts increased tax revenues while promoting sustained economic growth for a time. Now that the economy is shrinking, Obama and cadré look set to continue this policy, thereby implicitly acknowledging the per se validity of the same. Playing offense against the Islamic extremists seems to have prevented new attacks on the American homeland, and Obama and cadré look set to continue in this policy, too. Obama promises to close Gitmo, but not before his legal, diplomatic, and security teams figure out what to do with all those inmates no other country will take because they pose too grave a threat to their own citizens. (Isn't that why they were at Gitmo in the first place?) In the meantime, Gitmo's inmates will continue to cool their heals as if no decision to close Gitmo had ever been taken. Finally, the culture wars rage on, with the gay rights movement's egregious overreaching coming back to bite them in the worst possible way, even pitting them squarely against blacks at the ballot box. Which special interest group do the Democrats love more, and what will such a declaration of love cost them politically?

Concerning the particular policies described above, a few words from your side regarding what you believe will work in the next four years would be much appreciated from my side.