9 Reasons to Vote for McCain-Palin

It’s not about the heroism of John McCain.  Heroism doesn’t qualify you to be President of the United States, although it does display character. 

It’s not about the struggle of a young black man to overcome poverty and abandonment by his father to graduate from Harvard and be nominated for President, although overcoming such disadvantages does show character.

It’s not about experience or lack thereof.  A bad track record is worse than no track record.

It’s not about age or youth.

It’s not about leadership or change.  Leaders can lead in the wrong direction and change can be worse, not better.

It’s not about George Bush ’43.  That race already took place. 

And it’s certainly not about what region of the country you come from, the color of your skin, or who your running mate is.

No, there are real reasons to vote for the McCain-Palin ticket and here are mine:

    1.     GI Joes & Janes.  More than 4,000 young men and women 
            have given their lives to defeat Islamic radicals who are sworn 
            to destroy our nation.  More than 3,000 innocent Americans 
            died on 9-11 and it’s only because we have stood strong and 
            vigilant that no other attacks have occurred.  Setting a 
            timetable for pulling out, as Barak Obama says he will do, is a 
            betrayal to those who died on 9-11 and to those young men 
            and women who have made the ultimate sacrifice.  We are 
            winning the war in Iraq and the argument as to whether we 
            should have gone into Iraq is moot.  Appeasement always 
            encourages our enemies and leads to bigger and more costly 
            wars.

    2.    Ronald Reagan.  Ronald Reagan was elected after four 
            disastrous years of Jimmy Carter.  Barak Obama is Jimmy 
            Carter on steroids.  Taxes, socialized medicine, and the 
            nationalization of medical services will only serve to drive this 
            nation into a severe recession, if not a depression.  Senator 
            Obama is committed to not only letting the Bush tax cuts 
            expire, but also to vastly increase spending and further tax 
            hikes.  John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan proved that tax 
            cuts spur economic growth and restore prosperity.  Tax hikes 
            do the opposite.

    3.    Smoot-Hawley.  Senator Obama is now suggesting the 
            institution of tariffs on foreign imports.  He hasn’t learned from 
            history.  It was the passage of the Smoot-Hawley Act which 
            Herbert Hoover signed into law that precipitated the Great 
            Depression.  Free trade expands the economy, tariffs constrict 
            it.

    4.    Rush Limbaugh.  Although Barak Obama says he has no plan to 
            re-institute the “Fairness Doctrine,” with a bullet proof 
            Democrat Congress hell bent on doing so, he won’t be able to 
            resist.  Good bye talk radio.  Good bye free speech.

    5.    Barry Goldwater.  Goldwater, like all our American Founders, 
           understood the danger of government.  He said, “A 
           government that is big enough to give you all you want is big 
           enough to take it all away.”  Obama wants to dramatically 
           expand government because he believes that government 
           bureaucrats are smarter than you are.  Bigger government 
           means less freedom.  Nationalizing health care, which is 
           the goal of big government politicians like Obama, will destroy 
           quality health care.  Government cannot create anything, it can 
           only regulate scarcity.  If it is the government’s responsibility 
           to provide for your health care, why not your transportation, 
           your home, your food?  

    6.    Andrew Kyle Livingstone.  Andrew is my newest grandchild.  He 
            has wonderful parents, but what kind of an America will he 
            grow up in?  Will it be the land of opportunity or the land of 
            entitlement?  When anyone uses the words “economic justice” 
            and “redistribution of income,” the goal is government control 
            of our economy and our lives.  Both of these terms are Marxist 
            in origin and their application means the end of America as we 
            have known it.

    7.    Sarah Palin.  John McCain’s choice of Governor Palin has 
            brought America a new star in the mold of Ronald Reagan.  
            Sarah Palin has the political philosophy of our Founders—
            limited government, strong national defense, greater individual 
            freedom.  She is the future of the Republican Party and of our 
            nation.

    8.    Barak Obama.  We should choose a President because he 
            understands the foundation of a free society is freedom for its 
            people to succeed or fail without interference from 
            government.  It’s not government’s responsibility to care for 
            us, but to provide for the common defense, and maintain 
            internal order through the administration of equal justice.  
            Barak Obama doesn’t understand the foundation of a free 
            society.  He is well-intentioned, but his philosophy is contrary 
            to that which expands freedom.  He doesn’t understand that 
            individual freedom cannot exist without economic freedom.  
            The change he advocates is not change for the better.

    9.    Harry Truman.  The good news is that, as Harry Truman proved 
            in 1948, the polls are not always right.  The only poll that 
            counts is on Election Day, November 4, 2008.  President Barak 
            Obama with a Republican Congress would be one thing, but 
            President Obama with a leftwing Democratic Congress would 
            be a disaster of unimagined proportions.  So consider the 
            consequences and get out and vote!