Think This Through With Me

It's a buck dancer's choice my friend; better take my advice.
You know all the rules by now and the fire from the ice.
Will you come with me, won't you come with me?
Woh - oh, what I want to know, will you come with me?

—Robert Hunter

I forgot who asked me in the comments a while back, if I intended to stick by my public vow not to vote for John McCain if the Republican Party were stupid enough to nominate him.

I do not want to vote for a man who, when faced with an opponent whose radical associations were his greatest vulnerability, chose to hand our country over to the Socialist enemy within, rather than appear mean-spirited by highlighting those those radical associations for the American voter.

Nor do I want to vote for another president who is utterly incapable, for whatever reason, of pointing the finger at the Democrats when they are legitimately, demonstrably, and spectacularly to blame for something.

Whether I keep my pledge or not really doesn't make much difference since I live in California and Obama will win this state no matter what I do. But if I lived in Nevada, Colorado, Ohio, Iowa, Florida, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Carolina, or especially Virginia, there would be no question who I would be voting for. McCain. The alternative would leave me no choice.

John McCain has run a worse campaign than John Kerry did four years ago, and that's real hard to do. His performance has been so abysmal, against an opponent who is so dangerously and obviously a bad guy, that McCain doesn't really deserve to win. Nevertheless, when I go into the voting booth, I will darken the spot next to McCain/Palin for this reason only: I want America to stay America.

So my advice to you is this: vote for John McCain. Hold your nose and vote for John McCain. Vote for John McCain whether you think he'll win or not. Vote for John McCain because he's a genuine American hero who loves his country, even though he sucked as a legislator and he's even worse as a presidential candidate. Vote for John McCain if only to thank him for his Gang of 14 plan, which saved the filibuster on judicial nominees, and boy are we gonna need that now. Vote for John McCain just to stick it to the Dean and Pelosi and Reid who wish we conservatives would just go away. Vote for John McCain because he kept pushing until Bush changed generals, and thanks to Petraeus we might actually have won the Iraq War, even if Obama surrenders. Vote for John McCain because of what the rabid haters in the media said about Governor Palin and Joe Wurzelbacher, and what they refuse to say about gaffe machine Joe Biden, and the secret radical Obama.

Several years ago, I read an article by a self-described socialist in the Village Voice. I forget who wrote it, and I wish I'd saved it. The author lamented the fact that, with the success of many leftist social goals such as abortion on demand and sexual liberation, it appeared that the dream of a full-on socialist revolution in America had died. To the author, it seemed that the American left had become content with their peripheral achievements, and had lost the motivation to work towards the real goal: the overthrow of capitalism. Turns out, he was wrong.

Never, ever make the mistake of believing that when the Cold War ended all the communists magically vanished from the face of the earth. There have always been radicals in this country. For a long time they lived with their frustration at the hard-headed resistance to socialism unique to us Americans. Down underneath the rocks where they hid, they watched us, hated us; laughed at us; and waited. Most of us barely knew they existed. And if we knew, we never really worried about them. But they were smart. They didn't wait idly. They infiltrated the education system, and entertainment, and news media, and finally all levels of government. And now it looks like they will get a guy elected president, who at the very very least, is sympathetic to their world view.

But I don't believe he's merely sympathetic. I believe he's one of them. There is absolutely no evidence that Barack Obama is not just as radical as the America haters he's hung out with all his life; unless you count the self-serving denials that he makes reluctantly and rarely, and only when backed into a corner. Despite his denials and the unconvincing interference that the media runs for him, there's no evidence that Barack Obama has ever stood in the way of any of his radical friends' agendas. There's no evidence that he's ever even objected to any of them, except after the fact, when he's been caught out or embarrassed, and only after minimizing and excusing his friends' radicalism.

Then when I consider Obama's unscripted moments of candor, from his books and more recently when he didn't realize an audiotape would someday come back to haunt him, I can only conclude that Obama, like his radical friends, has been waiting for this day for years. This day, the day when he can "change the world" into the socialist utopian vision of Karl Marx's wildest dreams.

As I said a few days ago, everything will change if Obama wins. Everything. He says so himself; he makes no secret of that. What he has kept secret are the dirty details about where he wants to take this country. And because we're in a bad spot economically, and because the Bush presidency has been such a disappointment, the message of change for change's sake sounds tempting to so many people. This is how totalitarians get elected. You know, its almost funny—the irony—it wasn't too long ago that I heard liberals claiming that Bush wanted to use a national crisis to abrogate the Constitution. Never happened, did it? And now I'm afraid of the same thing, from the opposite side.

The choice for me is obvious. I don't like the idea of McCain as president, but an Obama presidency would be apocalyptically bad. Or perhaps I should say will be. To paraphrase one radio commentator I heard yesterday: if the worst happens, so be it. That's when the fight will really begin. I'll be fighting and you know what, so will you.

It's Hammer And Sickle Time In America

I'm on the point of winning for them the greatest foothold they will ever have in this country.

—Eleanor Iselin

Don't kid yourself. Did you ever wonder why he's so reluctant to detail exactly what he means by "change." It's because he means CHANGE in every sense of the word.

November 5th everything will change. And we have only ourselves to blame. We Republicans especially, for not making our case, even now. Because this election is about LIBERTY and when its long over we will miss that seven letter word that has meant so much to us for 232 years.

I intend to teach my children what LIBERTY was like when I was growing up. And I hope that someday they will know it again, as I did. Because the damage that Obama and his minions will do to this country will take a generation to undo, if we have the guts.