This Bud is for you!
Posted on 08/26/2008 7:29:23 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
There has been plenty of whining from conservatives concerning whether John McCain would select a pro-choice vice president. I just hope whining is all it is. As my colleague Dan Calabrese pointed out on August 21, the political leanings of the VP concerning abortion are largely irrelevant. The only way to meaningfully decrease the number of abortions is to convince people that abortion is a bad idea, not to legislate.
But this conservative whining must be starting to concern McCain and his political strategists at least a little. Maybe these people who keep complaining that McCain isn´t conservative enough are actually considering the possibility of not voting.
On one hand, Barack Obama simply isn´t popular enough to be truly threatening. He´s inexperienced, doesn´t understand the issues very well, doesn´t exude patriotism and has some horrendous relationship baggage. When you tally it up, it amounts to a major risk. And as past elections have shown, it´s been risks like these that have ultimately pushed people past the summer excitement and back into the autumn safety of conservative candidates who, if nothing else, seem more or less transparent.
But on the other hand, the support of the conservative base is an important element of this seasonal routine. So even if the swing voters play their role perfectly, as I suspect they will, it probably won´t be enough if a significant portion of the conservative base doesn´t vote.
So I must pose a question to the whining conservatives who are threatening to stay home on November 4, sitting in their La-Z-Boys with arms crossed, puffed up blood-tinted cheeks, and brows furrowed like a toddler who doesn´t want to take a nap. Are you prepared to deal with the consequences of an Obama presidency?
Realize that the average age on the U.S. Supreme Court is currently 68. John Paul Stevens is 88 and Ruth Bader Ginsburg is 75. Obama would select at least one, probably two new justices.
Bills that put crushing new requirements and taxes on businesses would almost certainly pass a Democratic Congress, and be signed by a president who has never run a lemonade stand in his life, much less a business. Don´t expect him to start vetoing bills just because they would drive our country´s deficit beyond anything prior.
Realize that Obama would not be aggressive on terrorism, that Islamofascists are probably licking their lips at the prospect of a passive American president who would be content to play defense, and would even take seriously the lip-service of radicals like the Iranian president. With an appeaser as our commander in chief, terrorist networks would inevitably regain strength, and more innocent people will die. Call it a scare tactic or anything you like. It´s completely logical.
Realize that 3 percent of Americans pay about half of America´s taxes. If we elect Obama, those numbers will be even more lopsided. Obama has pledged to increase taxes on the wealthy, who would, in turn, hide their money. That´s a brilliant plan if your goal is to completely stifle an economy.
Realize that Obama probably won´t allow America to drill for its own oil. Have you enjoyed watching our Congress take a vacation when we need them the most? With Obama at the helm, there will be even less pressure on them to do their jobs and get Americans the oil they desperately need. Expect more of the same naïve lip service that describes local oil-drilling as the problem, and not as the obvious solution it is.
Realize that when Obama talks about creating jobs, he means he will be building even more government agencies. He is not talking about letting the economy naturally flourish and creating jobs by getting the government out of the way. If you are ready for an even bigger government than our current one, Obama is your man.
Of course, Obama would not be without an upside. The evening news would be much more upbeat when the media´s biggest crush becomes the most powerful man in the world for four years. There would be no more of the incessantly grim ramblings to which we´ve become so accustomed.
Finally, realize that Obama has good intentions. I respect that he is an idealist, even if I disagree with his ideals. And if we do elect him, I don´t think America will crumble. I just think he would leave it in even worse condition than the one in which he found it.
So to conservative boneheads out there, standing in the corner, pouting because your first choice isn´t the Republican nominee, it´s time you got over it.
The greater of the two evils. Just what God wants?
His deciples believe that he can.
Your pious arguments could help Obama, and that would be disasterous for America.
This Bud is for you!
With the latest moves to Schwarzeneggerize the GOP platform with Global Warming nonsense and big-spending programs for bogus energy fantasies, and going soft on illegal immigration in the image of John McCain's world of "God's Children," I'd say the GOP is committing suicide.
They are ensuring their own defeat. If I wanted to vote for a liberal, I'd be a Democrat.
B-HO is light-years to the left of Bill Clinton. The fact that the Republic survived 8 years of the latter is in no way an indication that it could surive even 4 of the former. ...especially if B-HO works with a Dem majority congress.
To you pro-abort is equal to embryonic stem cell research. I don’t think it’s God who is guiding you.
I think that many are tempted to think that Obama is the Antichrist, but I’m not sure. He’s bad news for anything resembling prosperity, peace or concord, but all that is just Jimmy Carter on steroids. To be the Antichrist, he’s really got to come across as sincere to actual believing Christians. You see much of that? So long as actual Christians with more than a nodding acquaintance of their own Scripture keep turning their backs on him, he’s just a wannabe Abaddon.
Not that he won’t be a real pain, but he won’t be the end of the world.
Here is what you’ll get if McCain is elcted:
A shutdown of conservative speech.
Expanded, government-funded embryonic stem-cell research.
More justices like Stevens and Souter.
Massively higher Federal spending.
Open borders and amnesty.
And many ohter disasters.
Remember, McCain, too, has received funding from Soros (through one of hsi organizations.) Remember all the reasons we opposed him in the primaries? They’re still valid.
Let’s see. You continually go out of your way to tear down John McCain, who won the Republican nomination whether you like it or not. It says it right there in every one of your posts, no to McCain. Now in the real world in which most of us live, and in which 15+ candidates have been narrowed down to two, no to McCain means yes to Obama whether you like it or not.
I can only assume that you know how our two party system and nomination process works, therefore it stands to reason that you would see how your obsessive denunciation of McCain is an implied approval of Obama. Then again, maybe you don’t understand...
My love for country can NOT TOLERATE McCain!
" Rush to Saunders and Brooks: McCain's Liberalism Is the Problem"
"McCain, Judicial Nominations, Sleeves, and Warts "
When the GOP or McCain ask for money to support McCain, print and send them one of these.
Vote Bob Barr.
If Obama succeeds in mobilizing the college student vote, it'll be a one time thing. There's no way they're going to stay invested in politics for four whole years. The Republicans, on the other hand, will have a reason to get out and vote.
McCain is polling 85 percent on the republican base!
He will pick up the other 15 when the rest consider the potential risk of having a potential muslim in the White House.
We know Obama has a past filled with shadows.
I completely agree and the text is entirely appropriate, but don’t you think that boat has already sailed? With 40 million babies destroyed for convenience, America is already in the divine dock. How will doing anything that elects an avid supporter of even further murderous bloodshed be anything other than unintended complicity in the bloodletting. I will not immanentize the eschaton. I will vote for McCain and be on record as having stood against the complete socialization of America.
Maybe not. Remember, he told suppoorters that he would not appoint justices like lito "because that guy wears his conservatism on his sleeve." (And justices like Alito, Scalia, Thomas, and Roberts are more likely to overturn his signature legislative achievement, the McCain-Feingold Anti-Free Speech Act, given an opportunity.
And remember, it was Republicans promising "strict constructionists" who gave us Earl Warren, William Brennan, Harry Blackmun, John Paul Stevens, David Souter, and others like them.
Noted. Bob Barr is now up to 7 votes. Next!
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