McCain get my vote

McCain (oh well) gets my vote

I know you haven't asked me but here it is anyway. You do not have to agree with me. I don't wish to argue with you. But in case you have been thinking about your vote I wish to tell you why I have decided I must vote McCain.

It has been tough for me to deal with the McCain candidacy as a conservative. There have been numerous times when he has done things galling to conservatives, such as McCain-Feingold ("campaign finance reform" which did not reform anything and goes against the First Amendment no matter what the Supreme Court said), the Gang of 14 (which prevented the Senate from enacting a prohibition on judicial nomination filibusters) and McCain-Kennedy (the abominable education bill), and giving in on the global warming argument. Yet I have to hand it to him for his stance on the war, a very unpopular stand that recognized that the war, once started, must be won no matter the duration or cost. But I would have preferred a Romney or even a socially liberal Giuliani to the nomination that was foisted upon me by the crossover of Democrats and Independents in the early Republican primaries, using Republicans' winner-take-all-the-delegates sytem to pick our nominee for us because they felt McCain was the most beatable.

Yet, looking across the ideological gulf at Obama, I cannot but vote for McCain because Obama must be kept out of the White House no matter whom we have to put in there to do so, and the only way to do that is to put McCain in. Barack Obama is the FARTHEST left Senator in Washington. His philosophy of government can be summed up as this:
Government will make everything all better for everyone at the expense of the wealthy. Furthermore it will fix everything that the leftists say is wrong with America, and will soak the rich to do so. The wealthy are just not generous enough to the middle class and poor, so government will make them be more generous.
It is an impossibility and a lie.
Government CANNOT fix everything. If you look at all the areas it has expanded into (in violation of the Consitution in almost every case) the Federal Government has created far more problems by trying to fix them. And overtaxing successful people may be appealing to the less successful and the poor, but that is because people do not know how economics works and do not see how taxation changes the behavior of people with money. The reason manufacturing has relocated to China and information technology to India is because those governments allow businesses to keep far more of their profits than does ours. When capital is overtaxed, that capital will flee because its owners are free people too! They don't have to stand for it. When their capital leaves America, so do the jobs that their capital creates. Obama is apparently ignorant of this because he has spent too much time in the company of Marxists like Reverend Wright, Bill Ayers and read too much Saul Alinsky and perhaps Noam Chomsky.

Barack Obama is a die-hard socialist. His philosophy of governing is straight out of the Kremlin. It will take America down the path of the late unlamented Soviet Union. To think that government can cure the energy problem by refusing to permit more exploration, drilling and refining, and instead levy "windfall profits taxes" against the industry that makes modern life possible, while giving tax breaks to General Electric to make wind turbines and solar panels, is insanity. This will only drive prices higher as those taxes are passed on to their customers. To think that universal health care coverage will fix the limited access of the poor to doctors is to ignore the bureaucratic nightmare and disastrous costs that would impose on the best (if flawed) health care system in the world. This will only drive prices higher because higher overhead must be passed on to customers (patients and insurance companies). And when these programs implode, as every socialist effort will given enough time, the left will blame it on "failed Bush/McCain policies." Although come to think of it, they will have a point if the endless succession of corporate bailouts continues.

Furthermore to think that negotiations with an enemy that has as its starting negotiating point that the West must die, will bring about peace, is disastrously foolish. If America shows itself to be weak, this enemy will strike because it does not care how long the downfall of America takes nor how many of its own people, not to mention innocent bystanders, must die to accomplish it. Ours is a world governed by the aggressive use of force. That is its nature. Can Barack Apollo Obama face down Putin of Russia? Can the "savior" unite a country when he cannot even unite his own party? And what is this "unity" anyway? It is the political right giving in to the left. Never do we see Democrats "crossing the aisle" to help Republicans accomplish something. Obama utterly fails to understand the nature of the enemies of America in this day and time. Worse, his policy initatives will help them.

McCain is far from an ideal candidate. And his running mate, Sarah Palin, while offering hope for the future (UNLIKE Obama, who is the real "more of the same" only from the left), is four or eight years away from her own run. He wants to go easy on illegal aliens, but at least wants to secure the border as per the will of the people. He is willing to once again try to reform Social Security. He correctly understands the mortgage banking crisis to be the creation of liberals in Congress and at the helms of the major banking institutions, with a big assist from the "compassionate conservative" in the White House. He will appoint strict constructionist judges, although whether Congress will confirm them is another story. And thank God, he is no socialist.

Republicans have been hypocritical and some have been corrupt. They were elected in 1994 to change Washington and Washington instead changed them. They became what the Democrats were before 1994 (and what they are fast becoming since 2006) that got them thrown out. But since 2006 we have seen the same old socialist Democrats at work in the majority. They ran "blue dog" socially conservative people to oust the struggling Republicans in safe red districts. But that gave control of Congress to the 1960s radicals who see America as a villain and bully. It is with them in control that gasoline went to $4 a gallon because the tipping point between supply and demand was crossed while they watched. Obama has said he has no problem with $4-a-gallon gas but wishes the price had risen more slowly. Oh yes, what a man of the people! Both parties need major overhauls. It would be great to throw out every congressman and senator up for re-election regardless of party. But that said, a McCain presidency gives us a fighting chance to return to constitutional government. An Obama presidency gives us a big push towards Soviet-style socialism. McCain gets my vote.