2-party system: No choice but evil [Alan Keyes essay; Dobson's Choice]

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | 8-11-2008 | Alan Keyes

[EternalVigilance]

Preface

I remember reading somewhere that societies in decline reach a point where they are so corrupt that attempted remedies only reveal and further aggravate the causes of their demise. Sometimes I'm tempted to believe that the American Republic has passed well beyond this point, that our liberty is gone and cannot be recovered. The essay that follows is evidence that I have not yet succumbed to this temptation.

I have no doubt, however, that we are in the midst of the feverish crisis that marks either the recovery of the Republic, or its dissolution. The great principles of right and justice that gave rise to our constitutional system of democratic self-government are everywhere discarded or under assault. Indeed, things are so far advanced that the issues most involved with the destruction of these principles (such as so called "marriage" for homosexuals) are being debated and decided with no reference at all to their implications for the moral premises of liberty.

We live in revolutionary times, by which I mean times when a form of government will either be restored or overthrown...

*snip*

[wastoute]

Bump

[wastoute]

Well then let the LEFT provide those soldiers. LOL. ROTHFLMAO. Right. When the “breakaway province of Georgia” defies “The One” we can get down to the business of re-creating who we are. Maybe it is time. It seems to me the whole point he begins with is that the “American Experiment is over”. Let’s get on with it and not drag this out.

Git’er done.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Now that the two parties have finally selected their presidential candidates, it is time for a sober-- if not grim-- assessment of where we are.

Not since 1972 have we been presented with two such painfully inadequate candidates. When election day came that year, I could not bring myself to vote for either George McGovern or Richard Nixon. I stayed home.

This year, none of us has that luxury. While all sorts of gushing is going on in the media, and posturing is going on in politics, the biggest national sponsor of terrorism in the world-- Iran-- is moving step by step toward building a nuclear bomb.

The point when they get that bomb will be the point of no return. Iran's nuclear bomb will be the terrorists' nuclear bomb-- and they can make 9/11 look like child's play.

. . . we do not have the luxury of waiting for our ideal candidate or of indulging our emotions by voting for some third party candidate to show our displeasure-- at the cost of putting someone in the White House who is not up to the job.

Senator John McCain has been criticized in this column many times. But, when all is said and done . . . The choice between him and Barack Obama should be a no-brainer.

Obama And McCain (Thomas Sowell)
GOPUSA ^ | June 5, 2008 | Thomas Sowell

[roamer_1]

The choice between him and Barack Obama should be a no-brainer.

Yes, it is a no-brainer. It is two sides of the very same coin.

[AmericaUnited]

Whats nuts is that if we followed Keyes advice, strict conservatives would lose something like 98% of all races across this country. The left would run wild, unchecked with veto proof majorities, passing laws, stuffing benches, etc. that would destroy this country and be almost impossible to undo. Wall Street has a saying that applies here:

“Bulls make money, Bears make money. Pigs (i.e. greedy types who insist on all their way or nothing) get slaughtered.”

[Man50D]

John McCain will all his faults will not betray America that is something I can not say for those across the aisle because they do it so often.

Who are you trying to kid? McCain has crossed the aisle so many times he has worn a path to the socialist Democrats! Here's a little refresher course on McCain's socialist tendnecies thanks to DoughtyOne.

John McCain's Whimsical World of Conservatism
Food for thought for the Hillary Clinton Wing of the GOP

1982/00/00 McCain enters Congress, with his family accepts first of nine trips some aboard Keating's leer jet, three of which include stayovers at Keating's Caribbean resort (goes unreported for up to 7 years)
1983/09/28 McCain joins 26 other Republicans to vote with the Majority Party Congressional Democrats to demand U.S. Troops exit Lebanon, winds up on the losing
1983/09/28 Cindy McCain and her father invest $359,100 in a Charles Keating strip mall
1987/00/00 McCain has received $112,000 by this time for Congressional and Senate campaigns, from Charles Keating, his relatives, and his employees, the largest amount to any Keating 5 member
1987/04/02 McCain joins four Democrats to intercede on behalf of his S&L Owner friend Keating with Ed Gray, chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board and also banking regulators (2 meetings)
1988/02/11 McCain votes to affirm Anthony Kennedy as a justice for the SCOTUS

1989/00/00 McCain discloses Keating trips as his involvement in the S&L scandal breaks, reimbursing $13,433.00 with no repercussions as late as seven years after the fact
1993/10/10 McCain co-sponsors an unsuccessful bill to cut off funding of United States troops in Somalia
1993/08/10 McCain joins the Democrats and most Republicans voting to confirm Ruth Bader Ginsberg, the worst justice on the court today. Three Republicans vote Nay.
1993/01/13 McCain and Kerry release the Select Committee report urging the MIA issue be put to rest so that Vietnam could be granted normalized relations with the U.S., over objections by MIA family and veterans groups. Video1 Video2 ( I do not endorse all of the information presented in video1 here. The video does touch on a number of topics, and I think most are germane ) If I could have found video that contained most of this information without touching on McCain's POW experience I would have posted it instead. Still, there are parts of McCain's POW experience that are troubling. I'd just rather not go there. Video2 shows how one MIA family rep is treated, confirming some of the reports in Video1.
1994/07/24 McCain joins with the Democrats to confirm nominee Stephen Breyer to be an Associate Justice on the SCOTUS. Nine Senators voted Nay...
1997/00/00 McCain leads the opposition to the Coats Amendment, preventing government funded fetal tissue research ( derived from "a legal act" [abortion] ) Amendment defeated!
1999/08/19 McCain stated, ""Certainly in the short term, or even the long term, I would not support repeal of Roe vs. Wade,"
John McCain: George Soros' Useful Idiot? McCain joins Democrat Russ Feingold to introduce Campaign Finance Reform, an effort funded by George Soros Article
2000/00/00 McCain was the keynote speaker at the ultra-liberal Philadelphia convention sponsored by George Soros while John F. Kerry keynoted at another Soros event on the same day...
2000/11/20 McCain participates in the production of a gun control spot for Oregon's Proposition Five. (Circa this date, prior to the November election.) Article
2001/00/00 McCain founded the Reform Institute funded by George Soros
2001/05/15 McCain introduces the Gun Show Loophole bill S890, with Carper, Lieberman, DeWine, Clinton, and Schumer co/sponsoring Analysis
2003/03/19 McCain joins Democrats to vote against drilling in ANWR
2003/10/30 McCain joins Lieberman again, this time to introduce the Climate Stewardship Act (Gorebal worming et al) Thomas Bill S139
2004/06/04 McCain signs letter with 58 Senators, "We write to urge you to expand the current federal policy concerning embryonic stem cell research."
2004/08/05 McCain announces he deplores the Swift Boat adds against Senator John Kerry, and asks the White House to refute them
2005/00/00 McCain resigns from the Reform Institute he founded with Communist billionaire George Soros
2005/01/28 McCain declares, "I want us in the ICC (International Criminal Court)", but I would like to see more safeguards first
2005/05/12 McCain joins Ted Kennedy to introduce McCain/Kennedy immigration legislation that would wind up making illegal immigrants citizens
2006/04/28 McCain states, "I would rather have a clean government than one where quote First Amendment rights are being respected that has become corrupt."
2006/09/06 McCain joins Dole to write op-ed for the Washington Post, states in part, "We should publicly remind Khartoum that the International Criminal Court has jurisdiction to prosecute war crimes..."
2007/02/17 McCain states he will close Guantanamo Bay terrorist detainment center on his first day in office video (same as date link on the left)
2007/03/22 McCain gets the pledged support of Chuck and Sue Cobb, Jeb Bush's Florida Director of the Free Trade of the Americas Agreement effort
2007/06/00 McCain joins Baldwin, Shays and Meehan to file an amicus brief against the Wisconsin Right to Life organization brief The wrong side of a pro-life issue, helping pro-abort Feingold
2007/06/18 McCains Gitmo problem, close the base, grant Geneva Convention status, stop water boarding...
2007/10/25 McCain still wants us to sign the L.O.S.T. treaty in time, but does have concerns over sovereignty issues.
2008/03/00 McCain makes his first attempt to tell a state (North Carolina) Republican Party what to do. The RNC joins him.
2008/03/24 McCain hires Meg Whiteman to cochair his Presidential campaign. Whiteman is another wishy washy at best Independent, who has donated to leftist candidates and still doesn't have a clue what side to come down on with regard to illegal immigration. She is leaning toward running for Governor in California and being courted by it's Republican leadership. Links to CalCowGirl's comments regarding Whiteman's donations. Article above.
2008/03/26 McCains speech to the World Affairs Council, Europe may get veto power over some of our foreign policy...
2008/04/08 McCain casts last Senate vote during his Presidential Campaign. By the EOBD 06/24/08, he has missed 367 votes or 61.4% of the Senate votes in the 110th Congress. His last vote before the one he cast on April 8 was cast on 03/14/08. Link
2008/05/09 McCains interview with O'Reilly... I won't drill in ANWR... it's pretty... I'm an environmentalist.
2008/05/12 McCain Joins the Goreball Worming Cult, sounding more like Al Gore every day... McCain's Oregon add Video
2008/05/13 2008/05/13 McCain takes an Environmental walk, with the leader of the Cascade Land Conservancy
2008/05/15 2008/05/15 McCain states he will appoint Democrats to his administration, during a Republican teleconference and during a Columbus stump speech
2008/05/27 McCain announces support for severe cutbacks on our nuclear weapons, withdrawing battlefield nukes from Europe and giving our nuclear waste to an international body
2008/06/04 McCain states, "I disagreed strongly with the Bush administration's mismanagement of the war in Iraq."
2008/06/14 McCain tells Clinton supporters they should back him because he voted for Ginsberg and Breyer Said this to Conservatives on 2008/05/07
2008/06/21 It is announced McCain and Obama will address open borders group in Los Angeles on July 18th, 2008, Communists and worst of U.S. Illegal Alien apologist groups...
2008/06/21 McCain and team realize he has so little credibility on judicial appointments, that they announce he will let Fred Thompson vet his judges. That's 06/21/08's version of truth...
2008/06/28 McCain declares, "I will make comprehensive immigration reform my “top priority,” during my first 100 days in office. He assures Latino leaders that they will have an ally in the White House.

[pawdoggie]

Since Alan Keyes has always been “all anti-abortion, all the time”, to the exclusion of other issues that might have brought him (and Republicans and conservatives) to greater political success, he should be firmly in McCain’s corner. The fact that he is not tells me that he is really “all Alan Keyes in the limelight, all the time”. It’s time for him to join Brother Jesse on the ash-heap of history.

[Guenevere]

I've printed this so I can take my time and digest every word...

..it's well written, as usual, and of all the insightful words he wrote, I picked this one paragraph to emphasize my position on McCain...

"Others can hardly be blamed for not supoorting McCain when he offers them nothing to support. If people are obliged to support one person who doesn't represent them in order to stop another who also doesn't represent them, they end up with a government that doesn't represent them."

As for Dr.James Dobson, PLEASE PRAY FOR HIM!...

Through ALL the years I have known of him, read his books, listened to his lectures and daily broadcasts....(over 20 years) I have expected him to consistently choose right over wrong, good over evil, and express courage & encouragement for all of us trying to live according to God's precepts....I have not been disappointed in his choices.

Please pray for him...and encourage him to not give up the fight now...

..to stand...STAND!

[Lakeshark]

I think Dobson is as close to a modern day hero as there is. He has done more than most to preserve values in America than anyone I know, and for that I am grateful.

I thought he was wrong when he cut out on McCain so early, simply because he was throwing away any bargaining power to press McCain to hold on judges and a few other things he has fought for so long.

I gather Dobson himself realized that not only do you give certainty for a couple of more Ginsburgs on the court with Obama, but by not supporting someone who has voted fairly close on pro life issues, you take away your strength to sway him in your direction when the time comes. To allow Obama to win would take the heart out of what Dobson has worked for all his life.

Keyes is wrong here. Listening to him will surely deposit us in the secular toilet. Obama is a certainty, at least we have a chance with McCain.

This from someone who does not particularly like McCain.

[rabscuttle385]

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[AmericaUnited]

"Others can hardly be blamed for not supoorting McCain when he offers them nothing to support.

McCain has always been STAUNCHLY PRO-LIFE. So Keyes is a flat liar in saying there is nothing to support.

[EternalVigilance]

“all anti-abortion, all the time”

Pretty much tells me everything I need to know about you.

Your phrase is a good description, by the way, though you didn't intend it, of the reality of what continues to happen day after day after day in America. All abortion, all the time. Thanks to the Leftist unprincipled politicians in both parties and those who enable them.

[Guenevere]

I don't think Keyes is wrong...and I hope/pray Dobson will not waver.

Years and years of compromise is WHY we're in such an untenable position now....

.. and it has to stop.

Ultimately GOD will judge us....and He may see fit to have an Obama rule over us for the mess we put ourselves in.

I hope not....I pray not.

I continue to ask for mercy!!!

[AmericaUnited]

Obama is a certainty, at least we have a chance with McCain.

This really brings out and shows those who have severe dysfunctional mental thinking. "I'll blow my brains out now (Obama) because the operation could fail (McCain) and I might die."

[DallasBiff]

This long essay is only intended for those to whom liberty and self-government are worth a bit of time for thought

Considering that this essay is written by a proven electoral loser(it's a fact), the definition of insanity comes to mind of doing the same thing over and over and expecting the same results.

[Lakeshark]

That's a terrible analogy.

Sorry, you missed it big time.

Obama is a certain disaster. We lose the war against Islamofascism with him, we get our health care system destroyed, our economy destroyed, and nothing but Ginsburgs on the bench to help them undermine our rights.

As much as I don't like McCain, he won't do that.

[Lakeshark]

If Obama is elected, it's mostly because enough of us didn't oppose him. I'm not sure it's wise to sit on our hands and then say that it's God that sees fit to have Obama rule over us.

Please don't understand, I'm not trying to be snide, because I understand your anguish.

[Guenevere]

Noooo....it's because the Republican Party cared so little for the conservative base, they thumbed their noses & annointed McCain as the candidate.

I'm not sitting on my hands....I'm voting for Keyes.

[Lakeshark]

Actually, it was because WE did not have a conservative candidate WE all rallied around.

McCain didn't win because of some annointing, he won because he was more popular than the other 4 or 5 candidates.

Voting for Keyes seems pointless, the man is a great orator (doesn't need a teleprompter), and likely has lots of fine positions. Unfortunately he has never had any experience, no elected office, and simply cannot win. This kind of thinking is what gave us Bill Clinton, and if enough people do it will give us Obama.

[Guenevere]

Lakeshark, you're not going to convince me Keyes is unworthy or McCain wasn't 'annointed/chosen'...

McCain's name was mud May/June a year ago during the amnesty mess...

..he rose from the ashes (so to speak) and he had help & direction from the 'powers that be'....

We couldn't decide on a candidate?....it may have to do with good candidates like Hunter & others being ignored, invisible during debates so McCain could be highlighted and given the lion's share of attention and questions.

I've heard all your 'guilt questions' before...from other posters..

I'm weary of responding...

..I'm standing where I am.....I drew my line in the sand years ago.