This is a special message for those conservatives out there who have even the slightest doubt that we all need to band together for the political fight this year.
Are you angry at John McCain? Then you’re angry at the wrong man. Look, before you forget: while we’re chasing our own tails worrying about the perfect candidate, our opponents are still there. They have no principles, no consciences, and will feel no remorse about doing and saying whatever it takes to achieve political victory in November.
Here’s a video put out by some supporters of Senator Barack Obama. I hesitate to give it any air, but I think it must be seen to get the impact. Here we have the propaganda for the masses: take a funny, little video and sneak in a great, big lie. If you count on your base being undereducated enough to believe the lie, then you win big.
We do now know what the big lie will be in 2008. in 2004 the lie was that Republicans will start drafting young men and women to fight and die in Iraq. It was absurd; there was no support for the notion in government outside of a few radical Democrats. The Republican House of Representatives even overwhelmingly voted down Representative Charlie Rangel’s proposal. But they told the lie anyway, over and over, knowing that far too many Democrats and Democratic-leaners are just too dumb not to fall for it.
In 2008 the lie is that we’ll be fighting and dying in Iraq forever, with the death toll mounting without end, should John McCain be elected President. As ‘proof’ of this, they show McCain saying that he’s ‘fine’ with the US being in Iraq for that long.
What’s the catch? We all know that’s not what he means. Educated Democrats even know that’s not what he means. Those of us who’ve studied history and follow politics all know that McCain envisions us building a partnership of peace and prosperity with Iraq the way we have successfully with South Korea, Japan, and Germany. There’s no more reason to fear a lengthy stay in Iraq any more than we gnash our teeth at our perpetual deployments in those countries, but they tell the lie anyway.
Barack Obama’s supporters tell this lie anyway, the same way Democrats tell the big lie every time, because they know full well that their target audience will fall for it. They feel no shame in using false pretenses to win the Presidency.
Can any right thinking person stand aside and let this travesty go unchallenged? I hope not. We must join together and defeat these liars to the last man. Barack Obama’s Big Lie must be destroyed. His fairy tales must be burned to the ground and scattered into the winds.
We must not let them get away with this. Nothing John McCain has ever done is more important than that.
And Google once again breaks Internet standards, deciding to make their own custom XMPP fork for their ‘Android’ OS.
It’s funny how so many lefties think Google is different, or are willing to overlook the differences because Google is run by lefties.
John McCain wrote a letter to the FEC and the Treasury asking them to ignore his previous request to be in the federal matching funds system.
Is this legal? Or is he just making it up as he goes along? I have no idea.
Our vote is the first way we express our political will in this Republic. Our money and our time are so important as well, but without a vote, it is all for nothing.
Choosing a candidate to back in the 2008 Presidential election is therefore a big deal. And so, with full knowledge of how weighty this decision is, I present the case for Repbublican nominee John McCain to be the conservative choice for President this year.
I understand some of us do not intend to vote for John McCain as the Republican nominee* in November. I voted that way for a decade myself. “I have to make the party earn my vote,” I thought. In 2004 I did a few hours of research, examining the candidates from all the top parties, not just Bush and Kerry, before coming to the conclusion that I had to vote for President Bush on the issues. So I know how this thinking works.
In evaluating each party’s probable nominee, I will assume that the following issues matter in deciding how to vote: taxes, spending, government growth, winning the war (at home and abroad), border security, and the runaway judiciary.
Democrat: We know this will be Senator Barack Obama or Senator Hillary Clinton. Both wish to raise taxes by allowing them to go up “automatically,” increase spending and grow new government social programs, lose the war on terror at home and abroad, leave the borders unsecured, and contribute to judicial activism. Clearly the Democratic nominee can never be the conservative choice.
Green: Consider that two of the seven contenders for the Green nomination are former Rep. Cynthia McKinney, and longtime left-wing activist and former nominee Ralph Nader. Everything I said above about the Democrats goes double for the Greens, because the Greens have no national coalition to maintain with moderate to conservative members of the party demanding compromise. The Green party would take us in the direction of Western European socialism faster than any Democrat, and will surely be even worse for conservatives.
Constitution/American Independent/Independent American: Wikipedia cites two candidates for the Constitution party nomination: Bryan Malatesta and Diane Beall Templin. Their party’s process has surely been stunted by party members rallying to the Ron Paul banner, but they will surely pick a candidate for November. You want to see an excerpt of Malatesta’s thinking?
New World Order invites Texas Governor
News flash …. Gov. Rick Perry is flew to Istanbul, Turkey, to speak at the super-secret Bilderberg Conference. Robert Black, the governor’s press secretary, said the governor was invited to attend and speak about state-federal relations. Mr. Black dismissed the conspiracy theories.
Oh yes, and Malatesta is also in favor of “Abolishing the Federal Reserve and Restore [sic] Constitutional Money.” I think if conservatives wanted that, we could have voted for Ron Paul to begin with.
Templin is no better. According to the Metropolitan News-Enterprise, she believes the income tax is unconstitutional according to the 16th amendment. She had a website, but the domain has expired, so finding more is hard. And we’re to vote for her for President?
Either way, the Constitution/American Independent/Independent American party candidate is no choice for conservatives.
Libertarian: Like the Constitution party, the Libertarian party hopes to draft Ron Paul. However two candidates are standing out from the crowd for a home-grown nominee: Steve Kubby and Wayne Allyn Root. Libertarians seem to write about fewer conspiracy theories than the Constitution party people, but a conservative can reject them on the issues, too.
Kubby? He wants to end the War on Terror at home and abroad by repealing USA PATRIOT and restoring the wall of intelligence that helped 9/11 happen, and is also pro-surrender in Iraq (and presumably Afghanistan and everywhere else terrorists rise up, but he doesn’t say on his website). He also wants to turn the government into an energy experiment and “require government and military fleets to go non-petroleum,” essentially a massive subsidy for unready technology. Not a fan of amnesty? Kubby’s your man, too, because he’d rather end all immigration restrictions and make a true open border.
Root has his own problem. He supports isolationist foreign policy and a crippled USA PATRIOT. He is pro-Terri Schiavo starvation, pro-abortion, pro-marriage redefinition, and pro-embryonic stem-cell research. Root believes that “Global Warming is a danger to our planet earth,” but yet is against the Yucca Mountain facility for spent nuclear fuel, when nuclear power is the greatest non-carbon-dioxide-emitting energy source around. He calls our presence of troops in Iraq an unfortunate occupation, but yet wants us to impose our will on the elected Iraqi government by forcing referenda upon it.
No matter who wins the Libertarian Party nomination, conservatives lose.
There are other parties out there, but with names like Socialist Party, Socialist Workers Party, Communist Party, and more, need I go on?
The only choice for conservatives in November is Senator John McCain. Having been beaten twice in the Senate, he is on board with enforcement-first illegal immigration policy. He strongly opposes letting taxes go up when President Bush’s tax relief expires. He’s in favor of winning the War on Terror, even though he disagrees with some of us on specific issues like interrogation techniques. McCain is articulate, and is not afraid of speaking to the press about the war, unlike our current President. He’ll also attack corrupt earmarked spending, and is on record against ‘entitlement’ expansions, having voted against Medicare D.
We all have to vote for somebody, and voting for John McCain this fall is as extreme as we can get in the pursuit of liberty, and it is no moderation in the pursuit of justice. He’ll get my vote without regrets, and I hope other conservatives will join me.
* Yes, anything’s possible, but given his massive delegate lead, and the ending or suspension of all but one credible competitor’s campaign, I think John McCain is the presumptive nominee.
If you thought the Lakers acquiring Pau Gasol for Kwame Brown, Javaris Crittenden, Marc Gasol’s draft rights, and two picks was big, well, so did the Suns.
They were so impressed that they picked up the most dominant center ever, Shaquille O’Neal, for Shawn Marion and Marcus Banks.
Shaq’s well past his prime now, and I’ve always been a fan of Marion, so I don’t think too highly of this trade from the Suns’ perspective. Is Shaq going to match up better defensively against the Lakers’ new front line? He’s certainly not going to be able to run the floor like Marion and Amaré Stoudemire. And that still leaves the problem of guarding Lamar Odom.
I just don’t get it.
Not bad. The compacts all passed sadly, but 91-93 failed. I’ll take it.
I’d probabl better buy Tales of Symphonia for Wii to encourage RPGs. Well… maybe I’ll try the two in the series my brother has first.
After finishing Super Paper Mario. And after Metroid.
McCain 164, Romney 6, as of 7:00am. I was way off, having expected Romney to take in the neighborhood of 40 delegates. This could shift, as a few close races are still counting, so Romney could take another 9-12 delegates if things go well for him in the right districts. In any case, it’s a landslide, and nearly as good for McCain as winner take all.
Clinton 208, Obama 163, as of 6:30am, and there’s no way this changes by more than a few delegates at this point.
What really seems to have helped Clinton are places where Edwards had a lot of absentee/early votes. Those higher Edwards figures shrunk the two way vote and stole Clinton extra delegates in 4 delegate districts.
By the way, their system is horribly named. You can win a string of 4-delegate districts by 10 points each and ‘proportionately’ tie the delegates, then lose a string of 5-delegate districts by 1 point each and fall way behind. It’s like the electoral college, only random.
Maybe I spoke too soon. Octomania for the Wii looks nice. Atlus has been one of my favorite publishers. I like the Nippon Ichi knock off art, heh.