As to the November vote: what matters to me?
Two things really.
First, Pro-life and strict construction judges. We got two recently:
Chief Justice John G. Roberts
and
Justice Samuel Alito.
They are both pro-life and are strict construction judges.
I want one more. So I know how I am going to vote.
Also there’s the little problem of the war on terror. I am reminded of how immediately after 9/11 I expressed to a friend how I was worried that the U.S. had lost it’s will to fight. She said that this was not so.
I think we are losing our will to fight and I believe it will be the death of the U.S. Terrorism has been going on for years.
On WMAL today the news reports were that former Security Moms would decide the election. That may be, but what SM’s should remember is that we got to 9/11 by ignoring the problem for 20+ years. That their grandchildren might be facing the problems of Europe, specifically the problems of France and the U.K.
We ignore this problem at our own peril. Either by retreating and dealing with it another decade or two later or not dealing with it at all and becoming France and the U.K.
The biggest heartburn I have over this election generally is that people, parties and the MSM don’t see this threat for what it is at it’s core: a threat to the future of the U.S.
Thomas Sowell has a great editorial on NRO today that discusses the upcoming election. In part:
But elections are not about which politicians get to keep their jobs, though the media cover the news as if the political horse race is the issue. Elections are about the fate of 300 million Americans and the future of this nation.
That fate hangs grimly in the balance as two irresponsible regimes in North Korea and Iran seek to gain nuclear weapons. Neither leader of these regimes can be deterred by threats of nuclear retaliation, as the Soviet Union was deterred.
Both are like Hitler, who was willing to see his own people decimated and his own country reduced to rubble rather than quit when it was obvious to all that he could not win. If you can imagine Hitler with a few nuclear weapons to use to vent his all-consuming hatreds in a lost cause, you can see what a nuclear North Korea or a nuclear Iran would mean for America and the world.
It is obscene that our media should be obsessed with some jerk in Congress who wrote dirty e-mails to congressional pages — and was forced out of Congress for it — when this nation faces dangers of this magnitude.
It would be worse than obscene for some voters to cut off their nose to spite their face by either staying home on election day or actually voting a blank check from America for a party with a decades-long history of irresponsibility on national defense.
His description of the situation we face is absolutely perfect.
That’s my framework for the vote.
