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A GAME OF INCHES
By T Blogger | October 22, 2008
In the movie Any Given Sunday the coach (Al Pacino) reminds his players that football is a “game of inches”. Lately, it seems that politics is also a game of inches. John McCain is not a conservative Republican, and I did not vote for him in the primary. He is probably the most liberal Republican to run for the presidency since Richard Nixon. That having been said, let me also say that he is more than a handful of inches more conservative than Barack Obama, and I intend to vote for him.
Given McCain’s liberal bent, I am dumbfounded by the Democrats’ attempts to paint him as some sort of right wing fanatic. The whole thing would be laughable if this election weren’t so important. The “politics of personal destruction” that Bubba Bill Clinton accused Republicans of have become the sole property of the Obama Campaign and its allies in the mainstream media. The New York (Obama) Times accused McCain of having an affair when there was absolutely no evidence to support such an accusation. When an Ohio plumber dared to ask The Anointed One a serious question about his tax policy, the media camped out at his house and accused him of not being a plumber and not even being registered to vote (both falsehoods). Obama tipped his philosophical hand when he told the plumber he thought it was a good thing to “spread the wealth around.” In stump speeches, Obama and Biden dismissed his question with an arrogant sneer. Obama yucked it up at a rally by saying that McCain was relying on a “Plumber” to bolster his tax policies. The curled lip condescension was thick enough to cut with a hacksaw. The Obama faithful laughed racously at the presumption of this mere plumber to question The Great One. Again — it would be funny if this country weren’t so close to electing this smug, socialist shyster lawyer president of our country.
I spent most of my life thinking of myself as a Democrat. I voted for Jimmy Carter in 1976 because the economy had become bad under the Ford administration. Things got very much worse under Carter, but, being a slow learner, I voted for the Peanut Farmer again in 1980. Thank God most of the rest of the country had the good sense to nullify my ridiculous vote.
The slide toward socialism has now become a game of inches, and John McCain is the last unlikely defender against Obama’s left side sweep toward the goal. The polls are actually narrowing, making the “inches” metaphor even more appropriate. We Americans have to decide if we want a liberal Republican, or a socialist Democrat at the helm of our ship of state. John McCain seems to be an honorable man, and he has suffered for his country in ways that most of us can’t even imagine. To my mind he’s at least a half-yard to the right of Obama, and in this game of inches, that’s good enough for me.
©2008, Tom Weeks
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