Posted by
BCORIG on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 12:00:00 AM
This is a repeat of the E mail I sent out on June 29,2008. I haven't changed much since.
OK OK so I haven’t posted anything in months. You might
say that I have been preoccupied with other things. However, tomorrow I plan to
embark upon a 9 day sojourn to familiar climes on the island of Maui. I will
dare the skies inn a possibly under-maintained aircraft piloted by a possibly
anxious and disgruntled pilot who might be distracted from the immediate task at
hand by pondering wondering where his next paycheck might be coming
from.
And so I have been
distracted as well.
Since my
post on April 29 we have seen the retail price of a regular gallon of
gasoline go from $3.89/gal to $4.58/gal. Somehow
back then it was not as disturbing as it is now. And, of course, the idiot
Democrats are going to blame Bush and the inept Republicans will rail about the
missed opportunities in exploration and increased refinery capacity we had over
the past 10 years. Remember ten years ago we were snoring through Kyoto, the orphan child of the 1992
Earth Summit . No one wanted to be seen as
increasing greenhouse gasses back then. And here we are now.
None of this will make much difference between
now and November anyway. And that is all that matters. High gasoline process is
exactly what the Democrats had in mind all along, to reduce the American standard of living and push millions
of us into the arms of an ever expanding Government o protect and care for them.
The United States is on the
verge of becoming a European Welfare state, much in the mold of France, England
and Germany and this election will tell us if we’ve arrived or if we’ve staved
off the inevitable for another four more years
After 2004 Michael Barone was certain that the country was
turning to the Right – I have lost that link to his blog but he read the
tea-leaves of the post election results and that was his conclusion. Republicans
would be moving out of the big cities and populating the Red Areas on the map to
the extent that the Coastal influence on electoral votes would
be decreased over time. I hope he was right.
Obama is merely a fool but John McCain is doing
what any sane Republican would be doing in a year where the Republican brand is
worth less than $0.62 per Euro. He is trying to win the Election. And he’d
better. Especially after Boumediene and Heller v. Washington DC . We
need to have someone in there who is his own man.
I have many dear friends, whose opinions I
trust and respect, telling me that a Republican loss and a 4 years disaster
under Obama is just what the country needs to get back to where Barone said it
was going a la Reagan versus Carter in 1980. I have been wobbly on McCain but I
have never been wobbly about the fact that if Obama, an inexperienced race-baiting fool (I know it
links to NPR but listen anyway – you will be surprised) gets elected, there is
no Ronald Reagan this time to meet him on the other side of his first four
years. Romney? Don't make me laugh (although I could use a good one). Barr?
Painted as way too far out there. Gingrich? Perhaps but it will take a lot of
rehabilitation. Chuck Hagel? Uhhhhhhhhhhh. In my humble estimation none of these
guys have any traction for 2012.
So, the vote has to go to McCain. And he has to win. I know the issues
that we disagree on with him but there is no choice. Don’t sit it out Mr. Dobson
– your ring isn’t worth kissing, we have to beat Obama and the Socialist Agenda
he carries.
So, I have a
request of Laura Ingraham, Anne Coulter and Bob Barr, (yeah, I know the
last is from the LA Times but hey, this is what a lot of people still read) :
SHUT UP!!!
Unless they can
convince me that they are not happily anticipating 4 years of attacking Barack
Obama just so they can sell more books and expand their syndication deals (look
how Rush benefited from the Clinton Administration), they become less and less
credible. In particular, when Laura Ingraham runs out of meaningful things to
say she attacks the personal appearance the people she disagrees with. Didn’t we
see enough of that with Katherine Harris?
Remember
“Going of the cliff, flags flying, is still
just going off the cliff”. Ronald Reagan
I’m going to Maui.
McCain in 2008.
It’s still too close to call. Ask Bob Novak.
Now where are those dang bumper
stickers?
One man’s opinion –
without tears