If the polls and pundits are right, less than 48 hours from now, the United States of America will have the most historic election result in its history. No, not because we will have elected an African American as President, but because we will have elected someone with a paper thin resume who has, throughout his history, associated with those who view America in fundamentally different ways than the vast majority of Americans. Further, we will have elected a man who, by his very words and deeds, distrusts capitalism, believes in Marxist redistribution and considers small town and rural Americans to be bitter, clingy racists. Apparently, though none of this matters.

There's no question that Barack Obama said that small town and rural Americans were bitter because (he believes) government hasn't done enough to take care of us. This bitterness (he believes) has caused us to "...cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them...." That statement alone should guarantee that 90% of those who live in small towns or rural areas or take their religion seriously or believe in the Second Amendment would vote against him. Apparently, though, it doesn't matter.

Barack Obama spent twenty years in Reverend Wright's racist America hating church. He used Reverend Wright's words in his book title. After twenty years, he claimed that he didn't hear the incendiary remarks Wright made, and expressed shock after learning them. Of course, that's ridiculous. No one with even a single brain cell believes that. Apparently, though, it doesn't matter.

Barack Obama, as a youth, was mentored by admitted communist Frank Marshall Davis. Davis was important enough to young Obama to deserve mention in his memoirs. Apparently, though, it doesn't matter.

William Ayers is a Marxist. William Ayers is an unrepentant terrorist. William Ayers considered Barack Obama to be enough of a kindred spirit to have him dole out money to meet Ayers' education goals. Ayers has praised Hugo Chavez' education system and has never changed his belief in Marxism. There was something about Barack Obama that Ayers liked. Apparently, though, it doesn't matter.

Barack Obama believes that GOVERNMENT forcibly taking more money from those who earn more in order for the GOVERNMENT to redistribute it to those who earn less is no different than sharing a peanut butter sandwich. Never mind that sharing is a voluntary act and government force is actually a taking. Apparently, though, it doesn't matter.

Barack Obama demands that we help the poor by having our money forcibly taken from us, but he doesn't even GIVE to help his own family who is living in poverty. Apparently, though, it doesn't matter.

Barack Obama believes that wealth redistribution is a proper function of the tax code. "Spreading the wealth" he calls it. Apparently, though, it doesn't matter.

Barack Obama believes that bankrupting the coal industry to curb greenhouse gases is good for the nation. Apparently, though, it doesn't matter.

Barack Obama believes that our enemies will make nice with us if we talk to them and become more international in our thinking. Apparently, though, it doesn't matter.

Barack Obama is convinced that his presidency will "change the world". No one ever asks him how the world will be changed and if that change will benefit the United States of America. Apparently, though, it doesn't matter.

From his days in college, those who hear Barack Obama speak talk about how his vague eloquence leaves everyone with the impression that he agrees with them. This is a scary attribute that is more akin to Juan Peron or Benito Mussolini than it is a principled statesman. Apparently, though, it doesn't matter.

Repeatedly, throughout this election, Barack Obama and his team have taken steps to silence those who dare to criticize him. Joe the Plumber gets investigated. TV stations that ask tough questions get blackballed and newspapers that refuse to endorse him get thrown off the plane. Private citizens like Gianna Jessen, an abortion survivor who is openly critical of Obama's record on abortion, are subject to silencing efforts by Obama's campaign. Combined with the efforts of ACORN and you have a modern version of the Gestapo in action. Apparently, though, it doesn't matter.

If you poll the American people on each one of the issues I've raised, and leave out the names and political affiliations, you will find that most Americans would not support Politician X who has such connections and has made such statements. Somehow, though, when the politician is Barack Obama all can be excused or forgiven or ignored.

Regardless of your opinions of President Bush, or the wars, or the economy, it is hard to see America changing its fundamental nature the way an Obama presidency would with the help of huge Democrat majorities in Congress.

What kind of nation have we become, if it doesn't matter?

While this election represents a crossroads between capitalism and socialism, liberty and collectivism; just as important and even more clear this election represents almost a point of no return concerning the place of religion in general, and the Christian religion in particular, in the public discourse.

For decades, the media and the urban, sophisticated elites have taken a condescending view of traditional Christianity. By traditional Christianity I mean the belief that Jesus Christ is the Divine Son of God and the Savior of the world, an ultimate battle between good and evil and moral values connected with such beliefs. In this election year, though, "devout Christian" has become synonymous in the mainstream media with "kook", "backward", "homophobic" and "racist". Attacks on Governor Sarah Palin and, more recently, Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann use their religious beliefs to claim that they hold frightening prejudices that need to be relegated to fringe.

Pundits who dislike Governor Palin are horrified to learn that she belongs to a church that believes in a "literal" Rapture. That is a frightening prospect to the secular sophisticates because, as a an article at Counterpunch.org stated, "A believer in the Rapture with his or her fingers on the nuclear trigger might even be tempted to bring on the Rapture." In other words, anyone crazy enough to believe in the Rapture of believers is crazy enough to try to start a nuclear war to make it happen quicker.

Never mind that nowhere in the Bible are Christians urged to do anything to try to bring on the Rapture. In fact, the Apostle Paul took Christians to task who stopped living their lives and working in hopes that the Rapture was right around the corner. In II Thessalonians 3:6 he said, "In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we command you, brothers, to keep away from every brother who is idle and does not live according to the teaching you received from us."

Christians who believe in the Rapture also believe that those left behind when the Rapture occurs are almost certainly damned for eternity. Therefore, if they have any family members or friends that are unbelievers, Christians aren't likely to try to rush the Rapture because of the consequences to their loved ones. Of course, the secular sophisticated elites don't think about that. They would rather look at Christians as no different than Jim Jones' or David Koresh's followers. That is the view perpetrated by the mainstream media with barely more subtlety than one would expect from Bill Maher.

Another false claim that the sophisticated elites make against Christians is that they want to keep women subjugated, "barefoot and pregnant" if you will. Of course, that makes no sense since two of the most outspoken Christians running for office also happen to be women. I'm sorry, a woman isn't much of a woman who believes that she needs the "right" to kill her unborn child in order to feel liberated. The Left, though, and the secular world is committed to abortion. Nancy Pelosi has even gone so far as to lie about Catholic teaching in order to justify legalized abortion.

If McCain/Palin loses, the media elites will claim that Governor Palin's views are so far out of the mainstream that she harmed the ticket. By the same token, Barack Obama's religious views of "tolerance" and collectivism will be hailed as the new standard.

Barack Obama spent twenty years in a church led by a pastor who subscribes to "black liberation theology". Black Liberation Theology is an offshoot of Marxist liberation theology that sprang up in Latin America in the 1960s. Marxist theologians created a Jesus who was no longer divine, but was a homeless, proto-Marxist activist. The biblical teachings of individuals providing charity to other individuals was replaced with empowering government to TAKE, by force, from one class to give to another, supposedly more deserving, class.

James Cone, the architect of black liberation theology carried it even further. He said:

Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the
goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people,
then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is
to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community ... Black theology will
accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white
enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the
power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at
their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must
reject his love.

We are to believe that Barack Obama sat under this theology for twenty years, and yet, absorbed nor believed any of it. The mainstream media accepts that answer. Millions of voters seem to accept that answer. Sarah Palin's potential belief in a literal Rapture is scary, but these beliefs are irrelevant.

Conservative Christians are castigated for supposedly wanting to set up a "theocracy", yet from day one, Barack Obama has been praised in messianic tones as a "transformational figure" someone who can "change the world", photographed in every imaginable divine position, with halos while seeming to ascend above the crowd. Even he has said that we would look back on his ascendency as the moment, “...oceans stopped rising and the planet began to heal”.

Kids sing about Obama changing the world while wearing shirts emblazoned with the word "Hope". Yet, it is we, the conservative Christians, who are treated as cultists.

If Barack Obama wins, it will be an affirmation of a secular socialist messiah who believes that government can save mankind. After the attacks that we have seen on Governor Palin and Congresswoman Bachmann, Christians will be extremely reluctant to step out on the national stage.

I'm sure Bill Maher and the New York Times think that's a good thing. Do you?

For a long time, smart (in their own eyes) leftists and even some conservatives have said that my anti-elitist views are irrational and "paranoid". Leftists like elites. I understand that. There are only two reasons to be a leftist. Either your think you're smarter and more noble than everyone else and, thus, should make the benevolent rules for the masses to follow; or you think you're a powerless victim in need of a benevolent all powerful champion to save you from the excesses of capitalism.

Leftists have always viewed us in the Heartland as merely potential Jerry Springer guests, trying to decide whether to pay the rent on our trailer or pay for new dentures. They don't believe we're smart enough to live our own lives or to know what is good for us in terms of national policy. Well I take that back. Leftists do believe that our fourteen year old daughters are capable of deciding to kill their unborn children without telling their parents. Beyond that, though, they believe that we, in flyover country, are clueless.

This election, though, has seen the resurgence of Republican elitists. These are the people who never really liked Reagan, were always uncomfortable around pro-lifers and think the Religious Right is a bunch of snake handling inbred hypocrites. David Brooks, the "conservative" columnist for the New York Times (yeah right), absolutely detests Sarah Palin. He has said that she "represents a fatal cancer to the Republican Party". This is the same guy who said, "Goldwater and Reagan were important leaders, but they’re not models for the future".

The bottom line is that elitists, both left and right, want government by oligarchy, or should I say aristocracy. Both sides believe in a ruling class and that we shouldn't challenge that natural order of things. These elites believe that because of going to a particular school, having a certain degree of "sophistication" or traveling in the correct circles that they have been ordained to make policy for us, the great unwashed. They don't believe government is the problem. They simply believe that government needs to be run by their club. The masses, in their eyes, are incapable of living as free and independent individuals.

Take the current media and left wing attacks on Joe the Plumber. Compare that to the pony tail guy in the 1992 townhall debate between George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton. The pony tail guy was the one who asked, "how can we, as symbolically the children of the future president, expect the two of you, the three of you to meet our needs...?". The pony tail guy was hailed as someone who gets it. The media loved the question, loved Bill Clinton's response and loved the entire attitude. In the eyes of elitists, the masses should think of themselves as children who need a benevolent imperial government to meet their needs.

Joe, on the other hand, doesn't want his "needs" met. He simply wants government to take less. He'll achieve or fail on his own. Because his question didn't recognize the need for a ruling class he is pilloried. In twenty four hours, more investigation was done on his background than has EVER been done on either Barack Obama, Bill Ayers or ACORN.

We now know that Joe owes taxes, his first name isn't Joe, he's been divorced, he's been involved in various businesses, he doesn't currently having a license as a plumber, and horror of horrors; he voted in the Republican primary. The Chosen One being mentored by a pervert communist in Hawaii is irrelevant, but no detail is too small to be missed about Joe.

The reaction by the elites to Governor Palin and Joe should be a lesson for all of us. America has a ruling class that desires to protect its own. Left or right, Republican or Democrat, they all consider us to be "bitter, (clinging) to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them...."

The elites have no problem with a society where people like Barbra Streisand, Whoopi Goldberg and Madonna have "relevant" political opinions; but people like Sarah Palin and Joe the Plumber need to know their role and shut their mouths, unless they get invited to appear on Jerry Springer.

Today, I learned that the BBC has conducted a poll that indicates that the citizens of 22 countries that were polled favor Barack Obama in the Presidential election.  The mainstream media reported this because they believe, along with most enlightened liberals, that this should show us that Obama is who we need to elect.  The media, most college educated liberals, academics all admire modern Western Europe.  They admire Europeans' supposed sophistication.  They admire their ability to separate their religion from their day to day decision making.  They admire their aversion to war and they admire their commitment to socialist ideals.

Liberals, and most media members are liberal, believe that the United States would be better off if we emulated those above described attitudes.  Peace and fairness are the Holy (if I can use that word) Grails of liberal elitism and those goals require the diluting of religious belief and an increase of governmental control over "selfish" capitalist impulses.

Liberals believe that they know what is best for the masses.  They want (sincerely I believe) to improve the lives of ignorant trailer trash.  Ignorant?  Look at the social programs devised by leftists.  Go back to the beginning of socialism in America.  Social Security was based upon the belief by leftist elites that the average American was too stupid, too oppressed and incapable of planning for his own seniority.  Gun control laws are based upon the belief that we are children who shouldn't be allowed to play with dangerous toys.  The Department of Education was based upon the belief that Washington DC elites knew better than local parents and educators what our children needed.

Leftists do care about us in Red State America, but they think we're trailer trash.  Barack Obama admitted as much when talking to fellow elites in San Francisco.  He believes we're bitter.  He believes that bitterness is due to the fact that we don't have our needs met by an enlightened benevolent government.  He believes that bitterness causes us to "cling" to unsophisticated things like religion, guns and patriotism.  In his eyes, enlightened people don't cling to those things and content happy masses don't need to cling to those things.

I'm one of those "bitter clingers".  I'm part of trailer trash America.  I was born, raised and live in rural East Tennessee.  My Daddy (yes I really called him "Daddy") only had an eighth grade education.  He raised my brother and me on a farm while also working in a factory.  My mother taught Sunday School for decades.  I learned to shoot before I was eight.  My first experience with wine was with the homeade variety.  My first car was a truck.  In fact I even lived in a mobile home for two years.  I'm the folks that the liberal elites want to help and I'm the folks that don't want their help. 

I actually believe in God and believe the Bible is the Word of God.  (Ewww!  Did he really say that?)  I'm a flag waving patriot that believes that the United States is the greatest nation on Earth and has been specially blessed by God.  (He's one of them!)  I don't immediately look to Washington DC when trouble comes.  (Well now, that's just dumb.)  I actually believe that the right to keep and bear arms is just as important as any other right.  (Gun nut!)

The media is shocked that so many people in small town America have identified with Sarah Palin.  The media is less than thrilled that so many people in small town America have been humbled by John McCain's personal story.  They are convinced we must be simpletons.  They don't get it.  Sarah Palin is one of us.  Of course we identify with her.  Senator McCain's story exhibits the patriotism, honor, and self sacrifice we admire.

We aren't Europe.  We don't want to be Europe.  I know that is horrifying to the elites, but it's the truth.  That's the one thing that liberals don't get.  We may be trailer trash, but we are American trailer trash.  And there's more of us than there are of the "enlightened" media and the "enlightened" liberal elites.  And for most of us, Jesus is the only Messiah we need.  Sorry, Barry.

 

It's no secret, John McCain was not my first choice for President.  He wasn't my second choice and probably wasn't my third or fourth.  Senator McCain alienated me on two issues, campaign finance reform and his willingness to compromise with Democrats regarding the confirmation of originalist judges.  The First Amendment to the Constitution says "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech."  Either the sentence means what it says or it doesn't, and I want judges who believe it means what it says. 

I knew John McCain's story and was thankful for his  service and heroism, but that wasn't enough.  I believe in limited government.  I mean really limited government, and while I was disappointed with President Bush for not fighting for limited government, I didn't and don't believe McCain truly understands the benefits of limited government.

Last night, though, as I listened to Senator McCain's acceptance speech, the contrasts in this election hit me like a sledgehammer.  "Country first".  "Service".  "This Country saved me".  "Stand up".  "Fight".  Those were the key phrases from a powerful speech by a remarkable man.  Hokey?  Perhaps.  Parochial?  Of course.  However, John McCain isn't running for President of the World.  He isn't trying to be the leader of a Gene Roddenberry dream world wide utopia.  He is running for President of what he believes is the greatest country on earth.

Unlike Michelle Obama, John McCain didn't have to wait until 2008 to be proud of his country.  Unlike Michelle Obama, John McCain doesn't believe this is a "downright mean country".  Unlike Barack Obama, John McCain doesn't believe that America isn't what it once was.  John McCain believes, "In America, we change things that need to be changed.  Each generation makes its contribution to our greatness."  That is a stark contrast.

Another stark contrast is the fact that John McCain showed himself as a man of principle who isn't afraid to take on the power.  Leftist Democrats like to use the phrase, "speak truth to power".  A confusing statement that implies that the powerful are lying to you and they must be confronted.  Senator Obama, though, got where is today, by being part of the most corrupt political machine in American history.  He has never challenged the Cook County Democratic party.  He has been a loyal lap dog of that party.  Senator Obama has never stood up to the Daily Kos, Moveon.org left wing kooks who want to see this country ruined. 

John McCain, though, does not owe his allegiance to party or machine.  His allegiance is to the country he fell in love with while in agony in a box in Hanoi.  Even when you disagree with him, you have acknowledge that John McCain is a man of principle who truly does love the United States of America.

John McCain is right when he says that when conservative Republicans took power in Washington since 1994,  they allowed Washington to change them instead of changing Washington.  They became addicted to the power and the pork and the parties and the compulsive need to spend the people's money.  At least, though, conservative Republicans never stopped being patriots.

Leftists deride those of us who bleed red, white and blue as fascists.  They take our love of country and make fun of it using phrases "my mother drunk or sober", implying that we conservatives are willfully blind to our country's faults.  They are the ones who are willfully blind.  We know the United States, through its citizens and its government, have made mistakes.  We also know, though, that no nation in the history of the earth has used its power for good like the United States.

Another thing the left doesn't understand is that a majority of Americans feel the way we do.  We aren't a nation of "bitter clingers".  We embrace our nation.  We embrace our God.  We embrace our freedoms.  I'm not saying that conservatives make up a majority on every issue.  I'm saying that a large majority of Americans believe this is the greatest country on earth.  Leftist elites, of which Obama is one, are uncomfortable with this belief.  John McCain shares our belief in the greatness of America.

Can you ever picture Barack Obama, the man who has made a career of associating with people who dislike this nation, ever talking about "falling in love with my country"?  No way.

I still don't agree with John McCain on every policy point.  Last night, though, it became obviously clear.  Barack Obama isn't worthy to be mentioned in the same sentence with John McCain.  This election shouldn't even be close.  Only one candidate for President is in love with his country.  Why would we even consider the other one?