SURE way to lose Election 2008…
Let the MSM convince you it’s a lost cause.

UPDATED, see end of list. (Also revised for clarity.)

So you’re thinking about taking a pass on Election 2008, eh? Well, I can think of dozens of reasons to stay at home myself but when I separate emotion from reasoning, none of them make sense.

As a moderate conservative I have almost as many reasons to vote against McCain as I had to vote against Kerry, Gore, Clinton, Mondale, Carter, McGovern, Johnson and Stevenson. Also, many years ago, when the MSM first started promoting McCain for president, I made a solemn promise that I would never vote for him because he was/is too liberal. Now I find that promise silly when I compare his political views to Barack Obama’s.

The differences in this election are more distinct and consequential than any in my lifetime and my first vote for a president was in 1956. No matter how far McCain, the Republican, is from my core beliefs, he’s a lot closer to my views than Barack, the socialist-Marxist.

Here’s why I will vote[d] for McCain.

• McCain will not appoint socialist judges to the Supreme Court or other federal courts who rely on personal opinion instead of the law and Constitution. Obama will.
• McCain will not appoint socialist political activists to key positions in the Department of Justice to work against the interest of the American people. Obama will.
• McCain has promised to veto bills from Congress filled with pork. His record in the Senate of not taking pork proves that he is likely to keep that promise. Obama is one of the biggest porkers in the Senate.
• McCain does not support infanticide. I.e., he would not sign bills like those Obama supported in Illinois that deny medical care to live births from botched abortions. Obama voted AGAINST providing medical care for babies born live from botched abortions.
• McCain will not support Obama’s plan to give the United Nations $845 billion American tax-payer dollars to spend on world poverty. Obama’s plan to do that has already passed the House. See the “Global Poverty Act”
• McCain will not take money from the Pentagon to fund liberal social programs. Obama has a plan to do just that: see this video.
• McCain will work to preserve the Bush tax cuts and he will continue to cut taxes across the board. Obama is a socialist. He wants to “spread the wealth” like they do in Cuba, Russia and China. Just ask Joe the Plumber.
• There’s at least hope that McCain will not staff the Department of State with Eurocrats like we’ve seen with Madeleine Albright, Colin Powell and Condi Rice. Just thinking about an Obama State Department sends chills down my spine.
• McCain may not be a financial whiz but neither is Barack Obama. In fact, no president in history has been. But McCain has 35-years of experience dealing will economic policy at the national level. Obama has zero experience, and there’s little doubt that much of the instability in the stock market is a fear of Obama’s socialism.
• On national security (DOD, DHS, NSA, et al) McCain has solid credentials and we know where he stands. Obama has zero experience and plans to use the European model of appeasement and unilateral disarmament. JFK was swept into office on a youth movement and his naivety damned near caused a nuclear holocaust. Look up “the Cuban Missile crisis!”
• McCain will work to finish the job in Iraq and Afghanistan. Obama plans to surrender. In fact, Obama voted to cut off funds for our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan!
• McCain is well grounded, both in his character and in his mission, and isn’t psychologically persuaded that he is anything other than an American citizen trying to serve and keep his country first. Obama has a messianic complex and sees himself as a liberal change agent for the world.
• I have nothing but contempt for McCain’s positions on border security and illegal immigration. I feel exactly the same toward Barack Obama’s positions for open borders and amnesty but there’s more than one issue in this election.
• McCain, Bush, and other Republicans made several attempts to establish tighter regulatory control over Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the sub-prime mortgage industry. Barack Obama, Chris Dodd, Barney Frank and their party blocked every attempt.
• McCain will not support the “Law of the Sea Treaty” (LOST) which would give the UN total sovereignty over the oceans and the power to regulate the shipping, fishing, and off-shore oil industries through the sale of commercial licenses! Obama does and will. He has declared he will make LOST a priority.

And, if none of those reasons had convinced me to vote for McCain, this would have closed the deal.

But there’s more: Flopping Aces writes about Obama’s proclivity to make the U.S. subservient to the United Nations. That’s the scariest part of all.

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