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Get Out and Vote Republican

Don’t let the defeatism that the MSM and Obama/Biden are pushing on us keep you from voting for McCain/Palin.

Don’t let idealism keep you for voting for McCain/Palin.

Our choice is simple:  Obama/Biden or McCain/Palin.

You can also make a different in other elections, too.  Get out there and vote GOP.  Vote on the ballot propositions.

Fight the socialists and the surrenderists.  Vote for the man who has literally fought for you.  Get out there and vote, no matter how long the lines.  Make sure your Republican friends get out to vote, too.  Take them yourself if you have to.  Let’s stun the MSM!

Some previous blog entries that are relevant:

Boiling Down Our Choice

Libertarian Dreams Are Nice, But We Have to Choose Between Two

We Need a Republican President’s Veto

Conservatives Can’t Influence if They Sit on Their Hands

Conservative Christians Must Have Sensible Priorities

McCain is Better Than Obama

What to Expect With a Democrat President, Supermajority in Congress

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What To Expect After the Election

If Obama wins, especially with a Democrat legislative supermajority, expect to see euphoria from the MSM.  Anything bad that happens will be the fault of Bush.  Anything good that happens will be because of the "hope brought by the impending new administration".  McCain will be considered too old to run again, so the MSM will talk about what a great guy he is (remember Bob Dole after ’96?) and how people lied about him during the campaign.  This may be blamed on "the Religious Right" and the MSM (and some in the GOP) will blame Palin for his loss. Those who were the most trouble for Obama during the campaign can prepare to find themselves harassed by politically motivated federal investigations.  All the while Obama will be portrayed as a great and benevolent unifier.  The race hustlers, however, will say that this doesn’t really change anything – America is still racist and that is why they will still be needed.  After all, Obama is only "half black" and not "slave blood".

If Obama loses, expect cries of voter fraud and vote suppression, lawsuits galore.  Expect the MSM to spin it as McCain winning "even though" he picked Palin, and how it is finally time for the GOP to dump the Religious Right.  The MSM will do as much as possible to portray McCain as too old to run for a second term, and Palin as too extreme or incompetent to be worthy of the nomination herself, and will be portraying Obama as the "sure thing" for 2012, when we will finally be over our racism enough to vote for him after seeing what a mistake McCain was.  With a Democrat Congress, the media will be calling on McCain to "reach across the aisle" and to always do everything the Democrat way.  If he doesn’t, the MSM will throw a fit.  The race hustlers will go absolutely bonkers.

Either way, all of the interesting stuff about Obama will come out
– all of the stuff the MSM has been ignoring, downplaying, or sitting on.  There won’t be as much about Biden, because he has been around so long, but the MSM will suddenly discover his gaffes.  Expect to find out some "surprises" about Democrat Senators and Representatives, as well.

Either way, there will be a struggle in the GOP, with some people mistakenly thinking that Republicans should be more like Democrats, forgetting that the voters who want Democrats will still choose Democrats.

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Style Over Substance?

In an age when the visual image overpowers everything, the younger, dapper, smooth Obama wins by default over the elder McCain, whose body never fully recovered from the years he spent being beaten and improperly attended to as a prisoner of war.  There is no doubt that some of Obama’s edge comes from this.

If you are undecided or a possible swing voter, or if you know someone who is, please consider this notion.

McCain is not a party-line robot.  He is indeed a maverick reformer.  People like me don’t like everything he’s done or tried to do, but we know he’s the real deal.

Ladies, Obama is like the guy you want to date, even though he’s not ready to be a husband.  He’s fun to look at, he’s fun to talk with, but when you get down to it, McCain is the guy who has proven he can take care of things – that he can handle adversity and will make changes when things aren’t right.  His running mate, Sarah Palin, might not be your ideal galpal, but she is her own woman.  She doesn’t let men push her around.  McCain could have chosen any number of running mates, but he chose a woman who is not afraid to rock the boat.  Obama could have chosen Hillary Clinton as his running mate.  The combination probably would have had momentum that would have been impossible for McCain to overcome at any point in the race.  But Obama didn’t want to risk being overshadowed by a woman – instead choosing a much less charismatic man to be his running mate.  Obama could have chosen other qualified women.  Instead, he went with entrenched capitol insider Joe Biden.

Gentlemen, Obama may be someone who would be fun to trade jokes with at a Superbowl party.  But he is insulting you when he talks like you are unable to make something of yourself without his help, and if you do make something of yourself, he won’t think that is fair and will to punish you.  McCain may be like the older neighbor or boss that you don’t relate to because he’s from different generation, but McCain has demonstrated  that he’s a real man, and that he believes in you.

Obama doesn’t have real solution for this economy.  If he’d had his way, the condition that have caused the current problems would have been even worse.  Obama is naïve about foreign affairs.  McCain knows the military – he’s been there.  He’s overcome real adversity in his life, and he has had to fight hard for his party’s nomination - he didn't float into it after a nice speech at the 2004 convention.  Obama has used a lot of shady people over the years, a lot of angry and hostile-to-America people over the years, and then he has distanced himself from them when the association has become troublesome from a public relations perspective.  Don’t let him treat your vote the same way.  You’re not going to hear a lot about this pattern of Obama’s, because Obama’s campaign and those in the media fawning over him deflect it as a “personal attack”.

If we end up with an Obama-Reid-Pelosi government, with the Left holding a supermajority in Congress, no amount of smoothtalking is going to help matters.  No number of smiles from Hollywood celebrities will be high enough to fight corruption and waste and terrorism.

We need McCain-Palin to stir up in D.C.
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Biden My Time Until the Debate

“Biden Says Obama Would Create 2 Million Jobs”

That’s the headline of Matt Reed’s Associated Press article on Yahoo News.  Of course, the truth is that it is business owners, not politicians, who create jobs.
Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden said Wednesday that Barack Obama's plan to rebuild the nation's crumbing roads and bridges would help reverse the loss of 240,000 jobs in Ohio during the Bush years.
The only reason the federal government should be involved in building and maintain roads and bridges is so that the military can move around effectively.  The rest of the roads should not be a federal concern.
He also criticized Republican candidate John McCain's idea for the federal government to spend $300 billion to buy distressed mortgages at full face value and renegotiate them at a reduced price.

"Think about that, that means every single bank in America gets off Scott-free and the taxpayers foot the bill," Biden said a campaign stop in Lancaster, about 30 miles southeast of Columbus.
And Obama’s socialist nationalism is better?
Biden said McCain and his vice presidential running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, don't understand the plight of struggling Ohioans, and he decried the fact that the median income of a middle class family in the state has dropped $2,000 in the last eight years and that health care premiums have doubled nationally from eight years ago.
Neither of those should be the domain the federal government.  Hey, did anyone stop to think that some families have less income because one of the parents has cut back on working outside the home to take care of their own children?  Or because we have aging baby boomers who are retiring?

But what about their taxes, Joe?
"When the middle class is growing, everybody benefits.”
Except when the middle glass is growing because you have taken too much money away from the rich, making them middle class.
In Athens, Biden said a second economic stimulus package, which Democrats in Congress have called for, would help Ohioans afford the $3,500 that it will cost to heat the average home this winter.
Yes, we all know you are for redistributionist welfare.
He compared a tax rebate from the stimulus package to a check that Alaska residents receive each year from the state government, a stipend from the proceeds of the state's more than $30 billion oil-rich investment account.
Apples and oranges, Senator.

Surely we can beat these guys, can’t we?

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Bigotry and Marriage Licensing

So, if I'm a bigot, as some have said, for thinking that state-issued marriage licenses should be for bride-groom combos, then doesn't that make Bill Clinton, Biden, and Obama bigots, too?
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Palin Envy

There are always pundits who lean Right or generally support the GOP who heavily and publicly criticize the non-incumbent GOP VP nominee, particularly if that nominee isn’t part of the D.C. establishment.  I’m not sure why, but perhaps it has something to do with their favorite choice not getting picked, especially if they wanted that person to win the Presidential nomination to begin with.

So now we're enduring a little Palin Envy.

Let’s look at the facts:
  • McCain is not going to drop Palin
  • Our choice in this election is McCain/Palin or Obama/Biden.
  • OB will in no way be better for the conservative or libertarian causes than MP.
  • Publicly criticizing Palin will only help OB.
  • Sitting on your hands instead of voting will only help OB.
So how about we focus on the positives of McCain/Palin and the negatives of Obama/Biden?  Please?

The perfect ticket simply does not exist.  No candidate is perfect.  No candidate is going to always do exactly what you would.

We will be better off with McCain signing or vetoing legislation, nominating judges, enforcing the law, issuing Executive Orders, and as Commander-in-Chief and with Palin breaking tie votes in the Senate than we would with Obama/Biden.


So let’s get McCain/Palin elected, let’s give them as many good Governors, Senators, and Representatives as we can, and then we can pressure them to make the right decisions.  We are much more likely to have their attention than OB’s.  While an Obama/Biden administration may spur conservatives to try harder next time, we’re still likely to get saddled with new socialist bureaucracies that will never ever go away, even if we get another Ronald Reagan.  Stellar conservative Presidents last eight years at most.  The socialist programs started by liberal Presidents never go away, and the harmful decisions of activist Supreme Courts endure.

We're better off with McCain/Palin than we would be with Obama/Biden.  Bottom line.
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The Battle is On: Obama/Biden vs. McCain/Palin

Most of us here are conservatives, or Republicans, or some other label that is more prone to vote for McCain over Obama.  McCain is pro-life and strong on defense.  He’s tried to clean up Congressional spending.  Obama wants to grow government much faster.  But with Palin and Biden added to the respective tickets, the choice becomes even more clear.

Obama has tried to balance his lack of experience by picking arrogant Biden, who represents entrenched party-line Washington, D.C.  Combined with Obama’s Chicago background, we can be sure that their administration would be one of a larger, more entrenched, and more invasive federal government.  McCain has picked fiery grass-roots reform-minded Palin, who puts integrity above party.  Governor of Alaska, it is difficult to be further removed from the D.C. establishment.  Combined with McCain’s “maverick” ways and his own efforts in the areas of spending and ethics, this ticket has the potential to shake up D.C. and give more power back to the people and the states.

Obama/Biden will mean more politics as usual.  McCain/Palin could bring a new kind of administration.

Oh, sure, most of us would have other people in mind if we could choose our ideal President and Vice-President.  But I am definitely going to be voting for McCain/Palin instead of simply against Obama/Biden.

Who should we trust more when it comes to military matters?  McCain personally knows the risks and ugliness of war.  Palin’s son is serving right now.

Yes, we’ll have to stay on a McCain administration to secure our borders.  But we’d have to do that with Obama/Biden, and they’d be less likely to listen.

If you still refuse to vote for McCain, at least make sure you vote so that you can support the conservative-libertarian cause in other offices – Congress, state government, local government, etc.

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