Posted on 10/03/2008 11:07:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Because the country cannot afford the greatest gamble in its modern history at this moment in time.
A confrontation with Iran looms and instability in Pakistan grows. The Islamist threat has been beaten back in Iraq, but continues to nurse its fanatical hatreds in many other places, from Waziristan to London. Israel is ringed not with an enemy that wants a state but by two enemies that want Israel to be destroyed.
The world's financial system is teetering, and the estrangement between the American people and their government has never been this deep in modern times.
The cost of energy has soared and will continue to climb. The entitlement trap has only grown worse in the three years since George Bush asked the Democrats to work with him on Social Security and they said no. The corrupt, self-dealing culture of the Beltway has poisoned the decision-making of many bureaucracies and in ways only the burdened know, and the credibility of the big media is shattered even as their audiences shrink and many of their news rooms come close to shuttering.
So, despite the rapture of college students and the registration of the homeless in Ohio, the common sense of Americans will override curiosity about Barack Obama and infatuation with his celebrity, and trust John McCain to pilot the country for the next four years.
Obama is a wholly untested Illinois state senator with less than 200 actual days on the floor of the U.S. Senate.
Obama has never run anything or faced any significant political crisis in his life requiring the expert exercise of wisdom and judgment, much less this perfect storm of crises.
Obama's rise has been because of machine politics and hard-left coalitions, and his past is checkered with the most radical and the most corrupt sort of characters imaginable --Ayers, Rezko and Wright to name just the big three.
His party is led by hard-left partisans in the House and Senate, and the "grassroots" manning his campaign and ready to demand their patronage jobs are of the Michael Moore-Daily Kos variety. There is hardly anything left of the old Democratic Party. It isn't about a New Deal or a Fair Deal or a New Frontier. It is about radical change, and creepy children singing praises to their leader. It is about a thorough-going contempt of ordinary Americans best expressed in Obama's own description of the bitter God-and-gun clinging small town and rural voters of Pennsylvania.
Obama would be a huge risk in even placid times of peace, full employment, and robust growth, a radical break with America's political traditions even as measured against the McGovern candidacy of 1972.
In a time of war and precarious economic uncetainty, it would be near suicidal to turn the world's most important job over to him.
The hard left's seven year rage against George Bush has disfigured the politics of the country, but it hasn't infected the large center or demoralized the principled right. Three quarters of the country know the sort of enemy we face around the globe and sense as well the seriousness of the economic risk that faces us and which must be met and managed from maturity and a belief in growth and capitalism's essential genius. The country has never embraced class warfare, and knows that a lurch to the left now would cripple the vast engine of productivity that is the key to a steady recovery of confidence.
We do not desire to become Europe. We do not fear our neighbors or hate our political opponents or mock religion. Large portions of Obama's most dedicated supporters do. The MoveOn.org of "General Betrayus" and the Al Franken wing of the Democrats have tried without success to moderate their rhetoric, and the issue of Michelle Obama's lack of pride in the country have been erased from the fall campaign, but as the decision grows close, mist voters will be turning over all of these things in their head, and assessing the very different futures in front of the country.
This is the choice facing the country as absentees begin to be mailed next week, and it is the seriousness of the moment and the radical nature of the Obama candidacy that favors the tried and tested McCain and his populist, optimistic running mate.
America is a great and good nation, and it will not turn itself over to a party in the grip of its hardest left cadres, its most corrupt machine and its least experienced nominee ever.
Especially not when it has a man of enormous courage and proven devotion and sacrifice at the ready to lead through difficult times.
Please get Hugh F’in Hewitt off our side. Memories of his love affair with Mitt Romney abound.
There's nothing wrong with the power of positive thinking....
He was dead on with his prediction of keeping control of Congress in 2006, too.
Well said!
It all makes sense....but who’s listening?
The BO bandwagon just keeps rolling along.
McCain is gonna have to kick Barry’s ass in the next debate or I’m afraid it’s over.
Good argument. I’m not sure folks are doing a lot of thinking out there. They are scared. More fear may be McCain’s last best hope. An international crisis could be the catalyst for his come-from-behind victory.
I don't get it. His title alludes to some cause and effect of why McCain will win. His answer, however, is an argument about why 0bama should not win. There is a heroic assumption here: in order his title to be true, majority of Americans would have to share his opinion about 0bama.
Including Hugh Hewitt! :D
I have no problem with that. I only ask that Hugh shuts TFU until after the election, so we don’t get jinxed. :)
Including Hugh Hewitt! :D
I have no problem with that. I only ask that Hugh shuts TFU until after the election, so we don’t get jinxed. :)
The problem with Hugh Hewitt is that this is his one note.
No matter which election or which decade, Hewitt always operates at the same exact “positive thinking” speed.
I am positive about our chances but after more than 15 years of Hewitt and his constant optimistic salesmanship of whomever he supports at the moment, I have learned to ignore him.
As quiet as it’s kept, Hugh’s given name is actually Pollyanna Hewitt.
I’m reminded of those people who said “America will NEVER vote for this hick draft dodger over a real American WW2 vet.” Twice.
Spoken like a true white-bread conservative, comfortably ensconced in generally wealthy and white Orange County, CA, and very out of touch with great swaths of the electorate. Sorry if that sounds racist. This is the kind of “talking past people” that reinforces the 0bamabots’ views that they finally have someone who understands them and will work for them....no matter how ridiculous we know that is.
He thought sanity would prevail amongst the whining conservatives. He was wrong about the extent of the temper tantrum.
Thanks for Speaker Pelosi, guys.
Remember that Hugh picked Romney!
He doesn’t pick winners...
God I do pray. I do pray and I hope that Hugh is right.
Yep. I guess I am a pessimist. Plan for the worst and hope for the best. If the worst happenns I wonder if we can hold the line for a couple years til the next election.
As for trusting America to do the right thing, voters were stupid enough to twice elect Bill Clinton. Populism is the domain of village idiots.
Some people will be fooled all of the time if they think it is in their self-interest. They’re Democrats and RINOs.
Sad to say, you may be right. I’d hate to think it would take that.
In normal times, Obama would be exposed for who he is. But these are not normal times. Media has fragmented and the liberals are using all the credibility they have left to bring up Obama and tear down McCain.
They smell blood in the air after the Bush years and are willing to do anything to win.
To stop them we have to use all the tools at our disposal.
I really don’t see how John McCain voting for the latest version of the socialistic financial bailout bill, with all of its pork barrel projects and with all of its other political goodies, seriously boosts McCain’s chances for victory on November 4! McCain is still campaigning as a conservative who is against all pork barrel projects as well as against all other political goodies that are too often added to legislation to make it bad legislation! McCain is really a hypocrite among many other things too nasty to say here.
Saw An American Carol tonight. They had a funny joke about the Mexican laborers in Afghanistan. It was hilarious to me anyway. I was laughing so loud and long at that joke, I actually felt slightly like that person in the audience that everyone hears laughing and becomes their own show—lol— and that was in a room of conservatives (who also laughed.)
Oh know I somehow posted on the wrong thread meant this for the Mexian arrests down on the border. LOL. You posted that thread as well, right. OOPS. LOL
Know=no
(I don't know if Romney would be doing any better than McCain, probably not, but he'd at least be fighting, using the Fannie/Freddie hammers and tongs against the Dems/Obama, and railing against the Bailout).
With a sprinkling of Josef Stalin thrown in.
Oh that picture is just precious and lovely. If that is your family, you are so deeply blessed :-). Bless the two in the picture, too.
I suggest you get out of the past.
He might as well be saying, "Behold, the Obama wave is driven back by the army of McCain. Obama is retreating far into the Northerland. There are no Obamaites in Virginia. They've all been slain by Allah" for all the credibility his analysis has.
This isn't to say McCain can't win, but he's gonna have to make some fundamental adjustments, and Republicans will have to work.
And I suggest Hugh take his head out of his arse. Once he does, I’ll get ‘out of the past’.
OT sort of.... Drudge headlines says Palin calls Obama unqualified for presidency because of his statement on “bombing villages..etc” Is that a good thing ? The accompanying picture of Obama is quite ominous. But I know some on FR have said they don’t know how to read Drudge these days.
Um...
No.
Oh, man...Harriet Myers. Was he one of those? My Lord...the dumbest arguments came out of those people. It was unbelievable. Yep, I can imagine Hugh being right there with em.
Um.
Yes.
Next...
It's always an interesting set of callers. Larry's audience is a lot different than Hugh's.
Larry's late mother, RIP, was a Democrat but spoke a lot of common sense when she joined him once a week on his show. She was Larry's personal "Supreme Court Justice." His dad is a Republican, and opened and operated restaurants, if I recall right. When Larry talks about what his dad believes and taught him, it sounds like my dad, one of the smartest, far-sighted guys I know. It's the same basic Republican philosophy, in business as in life, of respect the dignity of others as you'd have them respect your dignity. Larry's dad, like mine, worked hands-on in small productive enterprise, a businessman Republican entrepreneur.
Hugh seems to come from a place so removed from hands-on and working next to your own employees and running your own business, which is the first to get whacked hard by government. Professors, lawyers (Larry is a lawyer, like Hugh), entertainers, teachers, government workers, are all buffered against affects of well-meaning government intrusion on enterprise. Small businesses are on the front line of government intrusion, and take the hits. No wonder so many of their creators are Republicans.
Hugh is buffered, and way up in the clouds somewhere, representing the Godly moral Republican ready to use government to take care of people in a Godly fashion, with cold compassion. He argues the finer points of principle, I guess,, but at such lofty height that he loses sight of principle altogether. I have become disillusioned.
Larry I think espouses the important principles. "Social" (bossy?) conservatives get bunched up because he was a Libertarian, and still is a small-l libertarian, I believe, but then again, so am I. Even in the hands of Republicans, more government screws things up. A libertarian core is vital to the Republican party's principle.
Give him a listen sometime. His callers are occasionally enough to make you weep, and also to make you cheer.
Hugh was the Last Man Standing for Harriet. He’ll still contend she was acceptable.
That’s when he first lost a lot of credibility. Before then he actually had some fans here and a daily thread following his talk show.
Yep. See my post 41.
Obama has never run anything or faced any significant political crisis in his life requiring the expert exercise of wisdom and judgment, much less this perfect storm of crises.
Obama's rise has been because of machine politics and hard-left coalitions, and his past is checkered with the most radical and the most corrupt sort of characters imaginable
All of this needs to be hammered home with the American people.
McCain MUST place the blame for this mess where it belongs—on the gang of four—Pelosi, Frank, Reid, and Dodd. He must hit hard and name names! Then he needs to have a plan to FIX it!
How was it? I’m eager to see it. Audience reaction?
Wow, thanks for that. I’ll definitely check him out. I’ve read things from him, but never heard the show. Sounds right up my alley. Thanks! :)
Because of “Keating Five” being such a mantra, McCain may be reluctant to stir the spectre of a little group of wrong-doers. Having been cleared of that, he may be sympathetic to accusations. Knowing the media machine he may also be leary that what would really stick would be “Keating Five”. Remembering, of course, that this year “truth” has not thus far seemed to matter much. So it seems he needs to do this, but he needs to find a very excellent WAY to do it so it doesn’t splash back on him.
Yes. Make the case that the McCain/Palin team of experienced proven reformers is needed at this time. Obama without any record of reform is extremely risky and will make things worse.
In a debate, even when Gibson repeated to Obama 2 or 3 times that historically the government collected less in taxes whenever capital gains taxes were increased, Obama replied that he still wanted to increase it to make things fair. Recently he said that he would consider delaying increasing capital gains tax if there was a recession. So it is bad in a recession, but if it is not a recession, it is more important to punish higher income earners, than it is to collect more in taxes.
From one pessimist to another, I agree. I’m a worrier and I am up and down, all over the place. My husband fears for my mental health (kidding).I have four children, two conservative, two liberal. My youngest lib and I can go at it pretty good on the issues, but even he doesn’t like Obama. Yesterday, he told me I would feel a bit better if I did a little reading about the “Keirsey temperment theory”. I’ve taken a personality test but never heard of this one. McCain’s an artisan and Obama is a rational. The theory being that the artisan candidate is always elected. This seems to have been true for past elections, so let’s hope it holds. I’m looking for crumbs here but it did give pause for thought. I just can’t believe that Steve Schmidt will let this campaign go down in flames. Even Rush alluded to some big thing they were waiting to let loose. All talk, maybe. I cannot bear the thought of that arrogant man living in the people’s house and looking down his nose at this country.
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