A couple of questions:
1. Why are you surprised? What do you expect out of the McCain campaign? Its purveyors, while maintaining a “Republican” label, are of the same exact ilk as the James Carvilles and Paul Begalas of the Democrat Party. All they care about is power, and they will do whatever they think they need to do to obtain it.
2. If you’re infuriated now, how will you control yourself as McCain’s George Soros-funded handlers take their predictable and inevitable steps to continue the destruction of our free republic? How will you handle your share of the guilt for empowering them?
A couple of comments:
McCain has already told you exactly what he will do: “Reach across the aisle.” He won’t save a single baby. In fact, he will ever more deeply entrench the respectability and acceptability of the perpetration of the holocaust, giving credence to the very lies that protect it. He won’t protect marriage or the natural family. He won’t defend our unalienable rights, or the rights to the Blessings of Liberty of our posterity. He scoffs at such notions. John McCain is still John McCain, no matter how many good people lend their reputations to covering for him. Once he has what he wants he’ll discard you like soiled and torn clothing. Don’t say you weren’t warned.
The fairy tale wishes that conservatives are projecting on John McCain right now are shocking in their quality and scope. It’s a mass self-delusion of biblical proportions.
No it isn't.. at least with many of us..
Social Security is pure socialism.. PURE.. America is already a socialist country.. The capitialization of socialism or the Socialization of Capitalism is well advanced.. like in China and India, and Europe and Canada..
TigersEye said, "I'm afraid that one of the most important issues, a crisis even, is the ignorance of the foundations of this nation. It is difficult to have a serious political discourse in this nation when 90% of the electorate don't really have a clue as to what the founders intended."
He didn't say that of the 10% remainder, 8% are above retirement age. Three quarters of the 2% left choose to live in the back country where they aren't bothered by fools like us. In our hearts we know we're fighting for a lost cause but it's too painful to admit it so we refuse to lay down and die quietly. That's the way some of us are, too proud to give up the fight because that would mean our entire lives were wasted. Grasp whatever satisfaction you can from knowing that you were one of the few who truly loved America and what she once stood for.
Hold His hand and let Him guide you.
But I cannot share your view of Palin. At the risk of appearing simplistic, can we not overlook what we might see as one flaw (no matter how glaring it may appear), because a myriad of positive achievements and character traits dwarf that shortcoming? I strongly suspect that the errors you perceive in her governance are not the result of any allegiance to a sinister ideology, but rather something much less wicked [I'll let others fill in the blank here, because I don't want to provide fodder for those whose wish to detract from her record or her potential].
You ask me, how will you handle your share of the guilt for empowering them?
I supported every genuine (and some not-so-genuine, but significantly moreso than McCain) Republican primary candidate we had (financially -- to varying degrees, in my writing, and in talking to as many people as I humanly could in my daily walk), until they all bit the dust, leaving only McCain standing once the dust settled.
I also spoke to everyone who would listen about Alan Keyes, and, in all but a handful of cases, there was absolutely no interest in his candidacy. I always received the same responses: (1) he has no name recognition, (2) a conservative black hasn't got a snowball's chance in hell, (3) he's too Christianity-focused, or (4) simply polite, but distrated, attention. I'm not saying their reaction was right or justified (far from it!), simply that that was the reception the mention of his candidacy engendered. That reaction, in small part, serves as a good example of the subject of the essay at the head of this thread.
No, I will not feel guilty about empowering Sarah Palin, and I cannot seek purism at this pivotal juncture in our history.
I wrote the above to hosepipe, and I'll repeat it here:
[Despite the chinks in her armor ... ] This no longer boils down to the quadrennial ‘voting for the lesser of two evils’ conundrum, which I have vowed never to be a party to again. For the first time in twenty-four years, we have a genuine conservative on the ballot. No, she is not in the top spot. But she is there. The Republican ticket contains a fighter who is willing ... in fact determined ... to reclaim America’s status as a ‘shining city on a hill’. And, no matter the odds against her succeeding, I’ll be damned if I won’t do everything within my power to provide her a chance to do so!
If she fails ... if she is prevented from making a difference ... it won’t be because I wasn’t willing to afford her the opportunity ... what I see as the last opportunity for a genuine conservative to reverse the course of our suicidal journey into oblivion.
You have a patriot's heart. I don't say that to many people, and I hold you in the highest regard, but, since two weeks ago, we do see this election from a different perspective.
~ joanie