Posted by
Sean on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 10:47:44 PM
John McCain has annoyed me for the first time this election season. His recent "throwing-under-the-bus" of Pastors John Hagee and Rod Parsley is wrong. These are flawed, but decent men who are far less offensive than Obama's ignorant lunatic of a pastor of 20 years, Jeremiah Wright. Furthermore, McCain is not a member of Hagee's or Parsley's church, making the need for a controversy comparable to Obama's situation ridiculous. So, it drives me nuts that McCain caved on this one.
But I'm over it -- and here's why: Hagee will now (hopefully) be spared an unfair, one-sided, smear job by vicious, Obama-cult-worshipping, left-wing media types. McCain will be spared the distraction of having to explain these guys -- who he barely knows anything about anyway -- to a completely un-reasonable media. McCain can now focus on his key winning issues: national security and fighting government waste.
McCain is still great in 2008. He was right on Iraq strategy. I doubt that McCain would have put up with Rumsfeld's crap for so long, had he been President instead of Bush. Had the administration listened to McCain's call to change course four years ago -- maybe Iraq would be successfully finished by now.
I also believe McCain when he says he will take a hard line against earmarks, saying he will not sign a bill containing them, and pledging to make the pork-authors famous. The joke of the recent farm bill, which he courageously opposed, (and "Mr. Change Obama" supported), is a preview of what we might get with McCain and a veto pen.
McCain also has a solid record of never voting to raise taxes. That is why he supports continuing the Bush Tax Cuts. Since letting them expire -- as Obama and the Democrat majority clearly want -- would mean a large increase for every taxpayer, McCain is firmly against letting that happen.
These are "the big things" McCain is right about. It's also nice to be able to vote for a genuine American hero. Read "Faith of My Fathers", and try not to tear up at least once, overwhelmed with pride in our country and the peolple who serve it. There is no better advocate for American victory than McCain right now, and no better voice to heed when encouraged to "serve a cause greater than yourself."
McCain's optimistic vision of American greatness and victory -- economic, militarily, and diplomatically -- are far more inspiring than the opposition's bleak view of weakness, failure, and victimhood.