Left and Lefter (a choice no one wants to (or should) make)

Throwing up your hands and surrendering. 

That plan may work for people like the Cubs in September or the French any given Tuesday, but it's not an endearing plan and I find that those who embrace it are not usually endearing people. Sadly, it has become, as of late, the mantra of true conservatives in the country in the last week or so. And I can't help but stop and wonder what the hell is wrong with us.

McCon has won Florida and S. Carolina, so what? Let's look at some hard facts. McCain has 97 delegates out of a needed 1,191. That's 8%! and not even a strong 8% (0.0814442). McCain has won in races where liberals and "independents"  were allowed to vote for the Republican nominee. Look at the exit polls for Florida and South Carolina. Abortionists who don't go to church very often, voted for McCain.

A slim margin in the delegate counts (Romney has 76) and a win in a state where half the population couldn't figure out how to vote for Algore all those years ago, and our side is ready to throw in the towel. We've got folks like Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh saying that if it's McCain and Clinton on the final stage, they're rooting for Clinton so we don't get blamed for all the socialist crap she's going to pull (as opposed to all the socialist crap he's going to pull). 

I say... that's crap!! We're going to get blamed no matter what happens. How's about this? Instead of throwing up our hands and giving them McCain to blow out of the water, what if we circled the wagons and put up the best candidate we can at this point? At least if we put up Romney, there might actually be a choice in candidates as opposed to "Left and Lefter".

We cannot give up. What if General Washington had said "You know, this Valley Forge thing sucks, and the Brits are probably going to win anyways. Let's roll up out tents now and head home. At least then the colonists won't blame us if the Brits pull something."? 

Make no mistake, we are in a battle of the same caliber as the Revolutionary War. There is a war going on for the soul of this nation. Washington fought, so that all men might be free to choose their own God-given destinies. Two-hundred plus years later, the dreams of Washington and those like him stand as a beacon of light that the whole world flocks to. It is this same epic dream that we fight for now. On one side stands the dark shadow of socialist oppression and on the other, the same fire of liberty that was lit all those years ago at our countries founding. I would hope that those who lead us now would harken back to the greatness of our forefathers, strap their boots back on, and get back to the hard work of forging a nation. 

This nation is always moving forward. The question becomes, who guides its path? Socialists and haters of the human soul or champions of that internal freedom and light that all men carry?

Hillary Just As Tough As Any Male Candidate (unless she's behind in the poles.)

You’ve got to be kidding me.
Mrs. Bill Clinton beats B. Hussein Obama by a few points in New Hampshire, so what? A complete political novice gets beaten by (pardon the expression) an old hat in the politics game, by a fairly slim margin, and the pundits and talking heads are falling all over themselves to call her “the comback kid”. They try to make it sound as though Clinton had thrown in the towel after Iowa and (shockingly) she’s now back in the race.
If Ron Paul had won New Hampshire (or indeed placed at all), THAT would be shocking. This isn’t that big of a deal. And if you think it is, you either…
1) haven’t been paying attention to Clinton’s war machine or
2) you suffer from a severe lack of imagination.

The big news isn’t that Mrs. Bill Clinton won. It’s really how she won. Listening to all the mental musings of the confused pundits, one thing started to show itself. They all seem to think she won because she got emotional. Poll after poll flashed across the screen tonight. Women came out for Clinton. Independents made up their minds this week. And the thought is that the independents and women came out for Clinton, because of her little “I’m so emotional about all this” moment in the New Hampshire diner this week.

I can just see the future Clinton presidency…
Mrs. Bill Clinton sits in the Oval Office. She looks morosely at the camera as she says, “I have tried so hard to get Iran to not nuke Israel, but I (sniff) just (sniff, sniff) can’t make him see reason.” She wipes some tears from her eyes, and bam! World War Three will be averted.

There are moments when I can hold my head high and say proudly “I am a conservative.” The contrast between myself and the New Hampshire Democrat voting block has just created one of those moments. Conservatives (true conservatives, not RINO’s like McCain) have the auspicious distinction of actually voting for substance. We use our sets of guiding principles accompanied by our pursuit of truth to make our decisions. Which is part of the reason true conservatives are in such a quandary when it comes to our political choices this election season. We don’t let thoughts like “Wow, she’s so emotionally invested.” dictate our course of action in the voting booth. We look at things like voting records, suggested legislation and proposed courses of action to determine our candidate of choice, all things that seem to be somewhat unfamiliar terrain for certain members of the voting populace.

This is the woman who wants to lead the free world? This is the woman that the women and independents of New Hampshire want to lead them? She almost cries and gets a boost in the polls? If you listening to the talking heads, the coronation is back on, because she got emotional. Her feelings got hurt, because she was losing, the people of New Hampshire saw this and said to themselves, “Oh, she almost cried. She’d make a great president!”

You’ve got to be kidding me.

I'm with Thompson (wake me when it's over.)

I hate wasting my time. It’s not that I’m that important. It’s not like I am making money in large enough sums that I could try and measure it by the minute, as in “he makes $109 a second”. (Which I believe is what Al Gore earns to peddle his fear-based initiatives.) I just hate wasting my time, because it’s the only thing we really have. Even though it’s a man-made constraint and has no meaning beyond what we apply to it, time is the one thing that every person personally owns. I may not own the “stuff” that I’d like to, but I own my time. Self-employment (and a healthy distain for “organized” industry) has taught me that.

So how is it, after twelve months of campaigning, we can sit on the eve of the Iowa caucus and have a statistical tie in both major parties? How is it that all of the front-runners, on both sides, have managed to move the needles on the meter exactly nil? (Worse, if truth be told, we’ve gone from “It’s Hilary and Rudy.” to “It could be anybody.”)

I have had to listen to this crap for twelve months, for what? A last minute montage of all the major candidates running around shaking hands and kissing babies? As though that’s supposed to affect a persons vote.

After all the crazy shenanigans in the Democratic party, from Hillary’s insistence that she has the experience, followed closely by her inability to cope with being “picked on” by a bunch of men, to B. Hussein Obama’s pitch for hope, followed by the “youthful indiscretion” of cocaine use, to John Edwards very expensive haircut, followed up with his recent “I’m for the middleclass” farce, you’d think that somehow the Dems might have sorted through all of this after 9-12 MONTHS to pick some sort of front runner. But no, it’s anybody’s “game to win”.

And don’t think the Republican’s are any better. They’re all playing some sort of shell game with their records. “I AM a Reagan Republican,” they all say. “Just ignore my stance on guns, abortion, health care, gay marriage, free trade, and taxes.” It’s impossible to figure the GOP guys out, because if you watch the mainstream media, they’re virtually indistinguishable from one another. (Except for Fred Thompson who hasn’t established anything beyond the idea that he’s an actor who is channeling some kind of autumnal bear.) They all say they’re not the Democrats. That’s essentially their theme…they like God and they’re not Democrats.

 Until you start looking at things like voting records and proposed legislation (you know, pesky little things like the truth), and you notice that what they call “not being a Democrat” looks suspiciously like being a Democrat. Things like, voting for tax increases (Huckabee), voting to limit free-speech (McCain), being anti-gun and pro gay-marriage (Guilianni), etc. ad nauseam.

 

So the upshot of all this campaigning is that we are exactly where we were when everyone got all there underwear in a bunch because “this guy” or “that guy” or “that woman who might be a guy” threw their collective hats in the ring for president all those months ago. Don’t get me wrong, it’s been kind of fun, but still undeniably, one gigantic, hugely colossal waste of everyone’s time.

 

And we wonder why more people aren’t interested in the democratic process in this country.