We knew we were in trouble when Rudy and Hillary were the “inevitible” candidates. Actually, the yellow lights were blinking when we blithely manned up behind “compassionate conservatism”, thinking we could hold it in check. We couldn’t. And now we’re in a pickle, aren’t we? I’ve been watching the inevitable shuffle of many right side bloggers, talkers, pundits, commenters, etc. What shuffle? The often quiet, embarrassed shuffle to get in line behind John McCain. “It’s a compromise we have to make this time” is what I’m told. “If the Dems win it’ll be the start of an eight or twelve year Dark Period, and I just can’t let that happen” is another frequent argument. “There is a world of difference between Obama and McCain” is another one. I’m sure you’ve heard them too. You might even have a little of that Kool Aid in your glass too. I won’t link you on this post, but you know who you are.
I’m not convinced. John McCain is wrong, simple as that. I know what I’ll vote for. I’m DONE voting for the little evil because he isn’t the big evil. Done. The candidates this year should be a loud klaxon alarm warning that the state of the Republic has gone critical. The broken, selfish nature of human beings has been pandered to by both parties to the point that the American people seem ready to toss it all over for a grand national socialist vision. And apparently I’m not the only one who feels that way. Here’s RobertaX On Voting Republican. Something tells me “she ain’t going to go quietly”.
“Hold your nose and vote” is just a way to asphyxiate.
Read the whole thing. Then go read Kevin at The Smallest Majority. He has a great post on Human Reconstruction. Interesting thoughts on Obama and McCain, and the “fixing” of humanity.
Neither side has chosen a Lockean candidate for the office of President. John McCain has stated that he believes that rights are essentially creations of government.
Bottom line for me is they both want to make government the answer, and big government the best answer. They’re both WRONG. And I’m not much convinced by the argument that says there is a difference and the GOP has to win. Why? It’s all big government power now, on both sides, and no longer “We the people”,”endowed by our Creator”. The idea that the GOP has to win simply isn’t true, and that has been proven often, especially the last few years. From the Patriot Post
The GOP ended up in the congressional minority because of its spendthrift ways. It’s painfully obvious that most Republicans in Congress have still not learned the lessons of 2006 and are still not committed to their own party’s platform of limited government. With “leadership” like this, the GOP is likely to stay in the minority.
There has been no leadership in either party in years. Every four years we wait to see what floats to the top, put them on the campaign train, and see who can play the game well enough to make it to Washington D.C. in January. But leadership? Hardly. We can all laugh and point at the Obama campaign, call him “the messiah”, or compare him to some wacky tv faith healer and his campaign stops to revival tent meetings. Shake our heads over the Dems comparing him to JFK. “tut tut, how sad. JFK is dead, and Obama isn’t like him” we say. Well, before you get all fingerpointy at the Dems on that one, better check your archives for “like Reagan” references. The Right side has its own cults as well. Pointing it out on the other side might make us feel better for a moment, but it doesn’t change the fact that so many on the Right have quit working for Liberty and Freedom, and have been searching for a messiah of their own.
Liberty and Freedom. Intangibles, bestowed by God, not by men. Not personality, not human beings. But they can certainly be taken away by men. McCain and Obama are the same. I mean it. They both offer the same thing, big oppressive government as the answer to every need, every wrong, every aspect of life. Quite frankly, it is a bigger evil than the Founders faced in the English King. Why do you want me to join you in voting FOR big government? Because it’s YOUR flavor of big government? Because you think you can keep it in check this time? Because we’re outnumbered right now, so we have to go along to get along? Right…
Right and Wrong. You don’t compromise with Wrong. I understand that HRC and BHO appear to be the coming of the antiChrist to many of you. I appreciate you telling me that politics is about give and take. But when it comes to Freedom and Liberty, it doesn’t matter if you give it away piece by piece, or they take it away piece by piece, you end up in the same place holding a bag of crumbs. So excuse me when I don’t join your enthusiasm for a choice between a taker and a giver. And the idea that the Right’s messiah can only come from the GOP? Bullcrap Kool Aid, and I’m not drinking it this time. Not shuffling here boss.
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