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The 2008 Presidential Election: It’s About Life

June 5, 2008 |  Tagged , , , , |

November 2008 brings the eighth opportunity in my lifetime to vote for the leader of my country. Of the previous seven, only one was more important than the one before us. That was the 1980 election when the voters threw out the President that had caused more long-term damage than any before him.

As most of you are aware, John McCain was not my first choice to be the Republican candidate for President. He was actually my fourth choice. But I always felt that as soon as the primaries were over (for both parties) that I would get behind the Republican nominee. The reason I am doing this is because I believe this is the most important Presidential election in my lifetime.

Each Presidential election in history has had a primary issue that overshadowed all others, and this election is no exception. The single most important issue for this election is the issue of Life.

The protection of Life is the single most important issue to me, much more than any other. I’m not simply talking about abortion either, because Life is threatened in this world from many directions. I will address each of these that are most important to me.

Abortion

Over the past thirty years that I’ve been an adult, I’ve seen abortion go from being a move of desperation to one of the most commonly used forms of birth control. As a nation, we are decimating our families, and we are destroying our future. The ease with which we dispense with Life via abortion has affected how we value it in every other way.

The Roe vs. Wade decision was a major overstep by the SCOTUS. As we all know, this wasn’t an interpretation of the Constitution, it was quite simply legislating from the Bench. Unfortunately, that is now the branch of our government that has the greatest long-lasting control of our laws.

During the next four years, there is a high likelihood that one or two liberal Supreme Court Justices will leave the bench. Right now, the Court is split as evenly as it has ever been in my lifetime. For the first time in my lifetime we will have the opportunity to have a Court that will interpret, rather than make law.

I’m simply not willing to give up this opportunity for a protest vote, or by sitting this one out. This is no question at all in my mind that John McCain will appoint someone along the lines of Roberts and Alito. With the right SCOTUS, we can offset the worst liberal tendencies in the other branches of government, regardless of which party controls them.

Military

John McCain is a highly decorated and respected War Hero. That Obama’s camp would even think to question his commitment to the military shows how desperate they really are here. John McCain had the opportunity to leave Vietnam. He refused because there were others that had been there longer than he, and he suffered unthinkable torture as a result.

If there was any question before about his commitment to the military, this completely solidifies it. There is no question in my mind that McCain saved the lives of some of the other soldiers that were there. There is also no question in my mind that he will also save the lives of many of our current soldiers as Commander in Chief. Unfortunately, if Obama is elected, we will lose many of those lives.

Freedom

It is clear that the appeasement strategy by the liberals in our government of the tyrants in the world that would withhold freedom from its citizens and seek to kill ours has resulted in the unnecessary loss of Life. Over 3,000 of them were lost during the attack on 9/11, and many of the 4,000 soldiers lost in Iraq and Afghanistan is directly due to their strategy and the MSM’s propaganda campaign.

Unfortunately, the current Administration has done little to counter those voices, so the killing continues. There is no question in my mind that John McCain will loudly and frequently counter these people, and put the nations on notice that we quite simply will not tolerate our people being killed, either here or abroad. And for those that will stand with us, he will protect them too.

I have heard many say,

Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us eight years of Ronald Reagan.

Rather than respond to this statement, I’d like to add a couple of my own.

The protest vote in 1976 gave us four years of Jimmy Carter.

The protest vote in 1992 gave us eight years of Bill Clinton.

Four or eight years of President Obama will make us long for those days. There are times for protest votes. This quite frankly just isn’t one of them. There is way too much at stake. I’d caution you to remember this if you’re considering a vote for no one, or anyone but John McCain.

The Life you save may be your own, or that of someone you love.


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