Watching the pace of the final polarization of Republicans and conservatives to get their arms around the McCain campaign, has been like watching iron filings trying to move to the poles of an electromagnet with a near dead battery. While the typical pattern has formed, there doesn’t seem to be enough energy to hold it together. Count me in with those weak electrons. While I fully intend to vote for the McCain/Palin ticket, inwardly, I’m not sure I want him to win.
Blasphemy you say! Do you know the consequences an Obama administration will have on the fabric and foundation of this nation? Yes, and frankly, the thought scares my socks off but there is more driving my turbulent thought processes. In spite of the media blitz, enormous campaign funds and a Democratic Party acting in lockstep to blame the world’s ills on Republicans, it is still a close race.
The very success of Barack Obama, a political novice, a man of extremely modest achievement, a man with a sealed past and a man associated with the epitome of those who seek to destroy all that has made this nation great is instructing. In the absence of a dynamic Republican leader, the Democrats have been successful in their ability to demoralize the Republican base through harassment, blame, innuendo and lies and put an enigma at the threshold of the presidency.
Two factors stand out as Election Day approaches. First, is that a powerful political machine, to include a majority of the mainstream media, has been overt in their determination to elect Barack Obama as our next president. Secondly, even with this enormous effort, backed by hundreds of millions of dollars, McCain is within the margin of error in many polls. If McCain prevails over Obama, given the enormity and probably corrupt effort against him, the ensuing physical and political donnybrook could be beyond description.
It isn’t the potential for an angry to violent confrontation that concerns me as much as an already unhinged liberal mob, to include a thoroughly humiliated media and a Democratic Party with the intent of absolute power. This is the same extreme liberal coalition that has successfully demonized the Bush presidency. It didn’t help that George Bush found in inappropriate to aggressively push back. It is this circumstance that would put a president McCain at the mercy of the press and a Congress controlled by the Democrats.
John McCain, in spite of his many accomplishments and triumphs, has not demonstrated that he would be any more dynamic than George Bush in inspiring the public at large and holding the Democrats accountable for their hypocrisy. The fear is that another uninspiring Republican president that is led by the nose by an arrogant Democratic Party could be the final straw to silence any remaining shred of enthusiasm among Republicans.
It is important to note at this point, that Barack Obama has clearly demonstrated that he is not presidential material. In spite of glowing rhetoric, adoring crowds and an obsequious media, he appears incapable of making a decision. While he has an idea in his own mind of the types of policies he wants to “impose” on this nation, he has all the cohesion of marbles in the explanation of the details of those policies and how they will impact mainstream America.
Moreover, as his own running mate has stated, the world and especially our enemies will “test” a president Obama. It will be the inexperienced, indecisive, noncommittal Obama that will be forced to meet that challenge. His response is likely to leave both our enemies and our allies in disgust.
So yes, I will be voting for John McCain on Election Day but I will be conflicted in my decision. Is it better for America to have an experienced and tested man in office whose every action will be thwarted by an extremely hostile congress or allow the Democrats enough rope to hang themselves by virtue of finally being held accountable for their actions?
In the meantime, we must never again allow the circumstance where a few political elites and a media with an extreme political bias select our candidate. We need to begin today to find a person with the vision, strategic ability and tactical skills of Newt Gingrich, a person with the fortitude and determination of a Rudy Giuliani to take on the corrupt Democrat machine and the political, organizational and problem solving skills of a Mitt Romney. A comprehensive job description to be sure, now we just need to find the candidate.