Posted by
dolfinwriter on Thursday, February 28, 2008 4:12:51 AM
The Republican Presidential candidate nomination for 2008 is basically over but for the cryin’. I never thought I would support a McCain candidacy, but the people have spoken, and apparently the masses would rather have a McCain than a Mormon. I think they're wrong, but there's nothing we can do about that now.
He would not have been even my second or third choice.
War hero—absolutely.
Great American—absolutely.
He gets it right on the need to cut spending.
And he gets it right on the war, and on defense in general.
But he has been a lousy senator. He’ll go on Larry King, but not Laura Ingraham or Hugh Hewitt. I think it remains to be seen if McCain is sincere when he says he gets the message loud and clear that the people want the borders closed, immigration laws enforced, and the fence completed as expeditiously as possible. I thought that on just about every thing that conservatives care about, he is to the left of where I want our next President to be.
Now he has the nomination virtually in the bag, and I see that I will have to choose between him and a Democrat. It’s a no-brainer that there is a great yawning chasm of difference between McCain and either of the two remaining Democrats, and especially between him and Obama who now seems to have the Democratic nomination all but sewed up.
I also never thought I would say this, but I think I would prefer Hillary to Obama for two reasons. First, I think McCain could more easily beat Hillary. But in the end, I think she would be less harmful to the country than Obama, who is naïve, still wet behind the ears, and has been named the most liberal Senator.
I can only scratch my head and wonder what people are thinking who voted for McCain, but then most Americans have not had the privilege to be Navy shipmates with a Mormon. Mormons are kind and decent people. They don’t sacrifice small children or even animals. They’re patriotic, and they love this country. They fear a God that we both believe will one day judge us all.
Having been brought up Baptist, I find some Mormon beliefs to be alien to me, but we’re not voting for national pastor. We’re voting for the person best qualified to be President and Commander-in-Chief, and while I could not bring myself to vote for a Muslim in today’s world, there is not supposed to be any religious test for that office. Most importantly, the God that Mormons believe in doesn't tell them to slaughter civilians--especially women and children--in his name!
I think it's pathetic that we’re down to voting for the candidate who will be less harmful,but that's where I find myself.
And I can’t believe my ears when I hear that there are people who say they will stay home or vote for the Democrat this time out of protest. Are you out of your minds? If you can't have everything you want, then you will betray EVERYTHING you say you value and help turn the country over to the naïveté of that far left Obama?
What sense does that make?
I’m going to offend some people with this, but I think that’s part of what’s wrong with this country today—we’re too scared that we’re going to offend someone, or that we’re going to bloody the bully’s nose too badly.
In my view, these people are acting like Liberals—acting out of emotion rather than out of reason. It’s pretty childish, actually.
“If I can’t have my way, then I’ll just take my marbles and go home!”
They say if we're attacked, the Dems will be destroyed for years to come. First of all, it could be me, my family, or someone I love who is killed or injured in that next attack, or maybe the guy who would have discovered the cure for cancer. I’d just as soon put the guy in office who I know will do all in his power to prevent that attack and ensure our common defense and safety.
It won’t do any good to wait for it to happen and then point fingers at those we know NOW will only make that attack more likely. That won’t bring my son back nor bring me back to my son, and it won’t work that way in any event!
In fact, we are just as culpable if we put Obama in office and then point fingers when we’re attacked as we KNOW will be more likely if he is President. That’s not Conservative.
These folks say "I won't compromise my principles".
Principles like that are going to destroy this country.
In fact, compromising their principles is EXACTLY what they’re doing.
They are also forgetting the power of this liberally biased news media on the ignorant, the brain-washed, and the gullible. Remember how they blamed Bush for the 2001 recession that actually started in 2000? Remember how the 9/11 Commission grilled Condi over why didn't Bush respond to the attack on the USS COLE? That attack occurred October 12, 2000. A special team of investigators had proof by October 19 that al Qaeda was responsible (sorry, no source—I saw it in a documentary, but there is a ton of information here.
Leave aside the fact that it was the Clinton “Peace Dividend” that caused refueling ships to be decommissioned, and making it necessary for COLE to pull in to refuel in a Persian Gulf port known to be infested with al Qaeda, Egyptian Islamic Jihad et al.
Seven years later we have still not seen Bill Clinton answer why HE didn’t respond, despite this statement, "If, as it now appears, this was an act of terrorism, it was a despicable and cowardly act. We will find out who was responsible and hold them accountable".
The bottom line? We were afraid of offending someone by bombing al Qaeda in Afghanistan while Madame Halfbright futilely tried once again to unite the Israelis and the Palestinians in peace, harmony and choruses of Kumbaya.
You’re sadly mistaken if you think we will have seen the end of Bush Derangement Syndrome after January 20, 2009! If we’re attacked again with Obama in the White House, they’ll just blame Bush. They will blame everything bad on GWB for years to come, and they'll get away with it, because the ignorant, brain-washed American Idol worshipping masses will BELIEVE it! They'll say Bush told us the Iraq War would make us safer, and see! See! We told you so! They still got to us! Bush lied to start an illegal and immoral war, and it was all for nothing because it just pissed them off!
The most important issue of our day is the war, and our posture against radical Islam. And we can’t forget North Korea, China, Russia, Venezuela, and Cuba. The world is a dangerous place, and McCain gets it.
The next most significant issue is the courts and judicial appointees. As Hugh Hewitt put it, with McCain, the worst we get is Anthony Kennedy who gets it right 75% of the time. But with Hillary or Obama, the worst we get is Ruth Bader Ginsberg, former counsel for the American Communists and Liars Union (ACLU). SHE gets it wrong 100% of the time!
They say there is no guarantee McCain's nominees will be conservative. I say if you want a guarantee, buy a toaster. There are no guarantees about ANYTHING in this world, except that none of us are getting out of here alive! Otherwise, the only thing we can really be sure of is that Obama's nominees will ALL be liberal!
Don’t throw the keys of the Pentagon, Intelligence Services, Congressional Budget Office and the IRS to the Democrats. I don’t know that we could ever recover from four or even eight years of a Democrat in the White House, and especially THIS most liberal of Democrats!