Why McCain Lost

This will most probably be my last wholly political post for at least the next two years, and honestly I hope that I have more important things to worry about by that time. While I love current affairs and politics to a point, it grows tiresome what with all the dirtiness of it all. Before I hang my hat and call it a day, politically speaking, I feel that I must state what I feel went wrong with the McCain campaign.

First of all, despite what many liberals believe, John McCain is not conservative enough to inspire true Reagon conservatives. He has reached across the aisle too many time on issues that go directly against the core tenants of conservatism. To get the vote out, you must inspire those to whom you’re trying to appeal. A president must be someone are children aspire to be. He / she should be the leader, not the lessor of the two evils. Honestly, I know that most true conservatives had a difficult time voting for him, if they did at all. Many decided that they would rather just not vote this time than vote for him.

McCain’s greatest surge in the polls came after he chose Sarah Palin as his running mate. She inspired us. She was someone we thought worth fighting for. She is more the embodiment of what a true conservative is. Is she wasn’t, then the media wouldn’t have attacked her in the all-out manner in which they did. Unfortunately anti-Bush sentiments and a failing economy overcame Palin effect.

What we need in the mid-term elections of 2010, in the general election of 2012, and ever other election is not really a new Republican, but a real republican. We need to look toward the Bobby Jindal’s, the Sarah Palin’s, and any other new, young, true conservative who has the conviction to fight for our country.

I may not love everything about my country, but I love my country. I love the way we became a nation, fighting tyranny. I love that we grew on the blood, sweat, and tears of hardworking pioneers who believed that said hard work created a better life. Yesterday I pray that God would not forsake us. He hasn’t, but as I’ve often said, it’s not for me to decide God’s plan for us as a nation or me as an individual.

My Heart Leapt With Joy

I was feeling pretty nervous last Friday while waiting for John McCain’s announcement of his running-mate. I feared the worst, Joe Lieberman or even Mike Huckabee. I thought that I wanted Mitt Romney, as he was my vote in the Arkansas primary for President. I was outright terrified when the media started announcing that it was a woman I had never heard of. I didn’t want him to choose a woman just to gain Hillary’s dejected supporters. Thankfully, oh so thankfully, I’m sure he made the best decision possible in picking Alaska Governor, Sarah Palin.

After reading her profile on Wikipedia, I can’t help but admire this woman tremendously.  First of all, she doesn’t seem to put up with any crap.  Instead of playing politics as usual, she has always stood her ground and worked to clean up politics in Alaska.  When she doesn’t agree with something, she doesn’t just talk about it, she does something about it.  That, in itself is admirable.

What makes me admire her the most though is that though doctors advised her to abort her fifth child, Trig, when it was discovered that he would be born with Downs Syndrome, she had him because he was perfect to her.  Yesterday it was announced that her oldest daughter is seventeen and pregnant.  Well, everyone makes mistakes in their lives, but I admire that the daughter is having the baby and that they doesn’t see it as punishment like Barak Obama would and has called it, but sees it as both the obstacle and blessing that it is.

So you see, my heart leapt with joy at this announcement.  I believe that John McCain made an incredible decision, and I don’t believe that she is too inexperienced for the job.  I have dreamed of seeing a conservative, pro-life woman rise to this level, and it is my heartfelt prayer that she be elected Vice President of the United States in November.  I wasn’t entirely sure of McCain in the recent past, as you’ll see in previous blogs, but I’m beginning to trust him more and more, as are more people.  Just Friday, I heard several people say that this decision cinched their vote for McCain, when they were either unsure, wavering toward Obama just because of the sheer lovefest the media has with him, or not going to vote at all.  Well, done Senator McCain!

Eating Politcal Crow

As adults, we’re often made to eat our words – sometimes when we don’t really want to but must for the greater good.  During the primary season, I swore up and down that I would never-ever vote for John McCain.  I stated all the reasons I didn’t trust him, and how I believed he was more liberal than conservative.  I have to admit that come November, my vote will undoubtedly be cast for John McCain because despite my desires for a more conservative candidate (i.e. Mitt Romney) he is the presumptive nominee for the Republican Party.

Am I voting for him because he is a Republican?  No.  I’m voting for him because when you compare him to Barack Obama in the role of Commander and Chief, there is no comparison.  I have to admit that earlier this year I was a little intrigued by the media circus surround Obama, but what I’ve learned of the man since the primaries gives me no choice but to vote McCain.  Obama will raise taxes – for everyone.  He believes in the redistribution of wealth (i.e. Communism).  He thinks that the government should control health care.  Uh,, haven’t the glowing reviews of the systems in Canada and the U.K. shown us that it won’t work?  When has the government ever taken control of anything and made it better, more functional, and streamlined?  Never.  just look at any of the other entitlement programs that exist.  They’re consumed with red tape and are broken.

I cannot vote for a man whose wife says that she’s never been proud of her country as an adult.  I don’t care how much whining they do, but the beliefs and actions of the President’s spouse matter.  The spouse is supposed to be the closest confidant of the President, and often times the closest adviser.  The Clinton marriage should never be an example of what a Presidential marriage should be.

I will cast my vote for McCain because he is for off-shore drilling.  He believes that an embryo is a human life at conception.  He doesn’t think of having children as punishment.  He’s ready to be the Commander and Chief of our armed forces on day one.  We can’t have Barack stumble through while we’re still fighting a war.

So you see, I’ve had no choice but to change my stance, to eat my words, politically speaking.  I can’t allow the media with their hormonal school-girl crush decide who our next President will be.  I don’t care how many times Chris Matthews’s leg tingles.

The Un-Fairness Doctrine: The U.S. Government VS the Citizens of the U.S.

    It seems to me that there is an invisible war being fought in America today, a war between the people of the United States and her government.  You see our government, especially congress, no longer seems to care what we as a nation want or how we want our nation governed.  Instead, they want to reform everything in order to fit their own agenda:  an agenda that to me seems like steps closer and closer to the point where we no longer have any of the freedoms that our forefathers fought for so valiantly.  They wish to strip away those freedoms that the men who almost two-hundred and thirty-one years ago signed the Declaration of Independence for, thus committing treason against the Crown of England.  If they ever help anyone, it's usually people who aren't even the voting public.

    The Amnesty Bill, er the Immigration Bill died today on the Senate floor, again.  All I can say is that it's a victory for the American people, despite what mass media and most lawmakers say otherwise.  Someone must be looking out for us, and I mean neither the legislative nor the executive branches of our government.  A number of Senators have displayed confusion and dismay at the outcry against the bill.  Here's an excerpt from cnsnews.com:

"Sen.
Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) said the influx of telephone calls and faxes
from opponents of the bill had jammed   Senate telephone lines.

Sen.
Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) described the fight over the immigration bill as "a
war between the American people and their government," adding that the
vote on cloture was "about whether or not we're going to listen to the
American people."

Reid criticized the outpouring of opposition,
saying calls and letters have been "filled with prejudice and hatred
and venom." He said he turned one letter over to investigators when it
suggested he should enter a witness protection program for supporting
the bill.

"I know what's been going on out there," said Sen.
Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.). "I know the calls that have been made. I
know some of the threats that have been made. And yet we have a chance
with this bill to really do the right thing."

She said senators
and constituents who don't support the measure "don't understand the
bill." Feinstein urged her colleagues to vote for cloture because "if
we miss this opportunity, there is not likely to be another opportunity
in the next few years to fix this."

    No, Senator Feinstein, we don't support the measure because WE DO UNDERSTAND THE BILL.  You see, we don't like it.  We don't think that it has the best interests of the United States at heart.  It has the best interests of people who are breaking the law and living here illegally at heart.  It has the best interests of politicians hoping to gain a bevy of new, grateful constituents.  However, for those of us who were born and raised here; those of us who don't break the law, but respect it would get the shaft.  Thankfully enough of us are well-informed enough to call you it.

    That brings me to my next topic:  Apparently we the people of the United States of America are too well-informed.  Too many of us listen to Conservative Talk Radio.  I personally love to listen to Rush Limbaugh, Phil Valentine, and Glenn Beck.  I may not agree with every work that they say, but I agree more with what they say than what is constantly spat from print and televised media.  Even Fox News, which is supposed to have a conservative slant isn't really conservative enough for me.  I can't stand to listen to the liberally biased trash that spews forth from them any more.

    Long before Dan Rather was discovered to have made up evidence against President Bush, I knew that televised news was purely liberal.  It's just that it's gotten to be ridiculously more liberal in recent years.  If I want to hear about things that I care about, I'll listen to talk radio and read on the internet.  Now however, several key Democrats want to silence conservative talk radio.  Apparently We the People know too much, and Democrats are now chomping at the teeth to revive the Fairness Doctrine, for radio only.  Here's a clip from the most liberal of all print media, The New Your Times:

"After getting hammered for years by the conservative takeover of
talk radio, Democrats are fighting back on several fronts — from
challenging their foes on air to endorsing the revival of the Fairness
Doctrine, the abandoned federal regulation that once obligated
broadcasters to balance the political opinion they air.

Elizabeth Edwards, wife of Democratic presidential contender John Edwards,
raised the roof on this emerging campaign against conservative punditry
by phoning in to MSNBC’s “Hardball” on Tuesday to debate right-wing
icon Ann Coulter.

Behind
the scenes, prominent Democratic lawmakers are exploring the idea of
more regulation. While some of this is aimed at showing the party’s
grass-roots activists that their leaders are fighting back, it also
provokes a serious debate about the role of government in regulating
public airwaves.

Unless broadcasters take steps to voluntarily
balance their programming, they can expect a return of fairness rules
if Democrats keep control of Congress and win the White House next
year.

Contributing Editor Craig Crawford is a news analyst for NBC, MSNBC and CNBC. He can be reached at ccrawford@cq.com."

    My reaction to that is why don't I just go live in a Communist country where all media is regulated by the government.  Why don't I just let the government control what clothes I wear and how much I eat?  Oh wait, they're already trying to control what I eat with dietary restriction on transfats and so on.  We should all be automatons with no thought or action varying from what the government wants.

    Just the thought of the government trying to reign in control of talk radio and impose fairness in itself is unfair because they certainly won't be doing that to television or print media.  Seriously, for every minute that I have to watch Chris Matthews, Brian Williams, and Dan Rather spew their liberal garbage, I want to see Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Phil Valentine.  If we're going to do this, let's make everything fair.

    That won't happen though.  Our government cares nothing for the American people, and slowly they'll learn as we vote them out of office that unless they take the power of the vote away, we will eventually win.  You can't keep information from the people.  You can't manipulate it to fit your whims.  We will eventually learn the truth, and the truth will set us free.

Hey, ABC, CBS, CNN, and All Other News Organizations, Poll Me! I Don’t Think You’re Accurate.

Every day some news organization comes out with a poll that is supposed to reflect the views of the entire nation. I usually don’t agree with them though. In fact, not only do I now agree with these polls, but I sometimes think that they are used more as a tool to frighten the public rather than inform them / us.

I seriously have to wonder just who CNN, The Washington Post, CBS, ABC, NBC, and even Fox news actually poll because so often the polls don’t reflect Middle America, but only one side of the ideological / political table. If they really polled regular Americans, the results would be more varied than they appear because not everyone thinks that the nation is in a downward spiral.

If average Americans were to be polled instead of people whom the media knows will lean in the direction they choose, things wouldn’t appear as bad as the networks wish them to. That would defeat the sensationalist purpose of today’s media to claim that things are worse than they’ve ever been. They would lose that ridiculous edge of extremes all media has adopted in order to gain viewers.

I would love to be polled on all topics by all of the major networks. I would love to feel that polls are accurate and not just greatly rigged political and commercial vehicles meant to sway the opinions of everyday Americans and frighten them.