It appears that B.Hussein Obama has all but wrapped up the Democrat nomination for President. However, that doesn’t seem to have fazed Hillary Clinton as she’s out making a multi-state campaign trip this week. I hope she sticks it out to the end. The more chaos in the Donkey party now, the less chance we are shackled with another Dem President next year.
I will not attempt to claim objectivity like so many dishonest bloggers do. I cannot stand either Democrat candidate and will trumpet that to anyone and everyone who’ll listen. I believe either would be a disastrous choice to lead our country at any time . . . and much more so during wartime. Unlike many others, I won’t make a choice for President based on how I view the current President. My vote will be based on who I believe will be the best of the viable candidates.
Now for the “other side of the story” . . .
I believe John McCain to be weak on 1st Amendment issues (remember McCain-Feingold?), soft on our illegal immigration problem (“McAmnesty” might be a fitting nickname), and much too chummy with very leftist politicians in D.C. (Kennedy, Pelosi, etc.). The GOP had many candidates when the primary started and only a couple were lower on my list than McCain. That said, McCain is far and away a better choice of the remaining options to lead this country in wartime.
In 1968, the Democrats abandoned their core voters and handed over party control to the super-leftists. Over time, Dem voters followed the trend and have become much more liberal. Case in point: If JFK was alive and ran for national office, he’d would probably be right of McCain. JFK wouldn’t have a prayer as a Dem today – they wouldn’t have him.
The scary part of this is that the GOP has moved left also. “Compassionate conservatism” dropped the conservatism part from the beginning. It is NOT conservative to expand social welfare programs (prescription drug program, etc.), ignore the Constitution on issues such as private gun ownership, stomp on free speech exercised through political contributions (McCain-Feingold bill), and buy into race-based entitlement/quota programs . . . but much of the GOP marches to those drumbeats now.
Other than the issues of support for our troops during wartime and murdering unborn babies, what main party-platform issues differentiate the Dem and the GOP now? Both are critical issues but are those the only ones now? Please tell me I’m missing some because I’m not seeing them in practice.
I have to wonder if JFK would be considered too “divisive” (read: conservative) and not enough of a “big tent” kind of guy for even the Republicans today.
