The outcome of the upcoming 2008 presidential race will be influenced by the candidates’ positions on the significant issues that are captivating the minds of the voters. These issues will be the subjects of numerous debates that will be held as part of the presidential campaign. With the emergence of the Internet as an effective campaign tool, the release of online political videos will bring the presidential candidates views on these issues on the world stage.
The war in Iraq is probably the biggest and most relevant issue that the candidates will debate on as the unstable situation in the country and the absence of any weapons of mass destruction has triggered a fierce debate on increasing or withdrawing the troops stationed in Iraq. The war in Iraq is also connected to the war on terrorism and Iran’s desire to develop nuclear capabilities. Of course, there are also other less controversial but nonetheless very important issues such as health care, immigration, same sex marriage, Social Security, global warming and abortion.
The Supreme Court decision this week on “partial birth abortion" (in quotes because the term was coined by the pro-life side as a PR tool) means that no matter what else is said about the Bush Administration, his judicial appointments have created a seismic shift in the law of the land and social policy. And, with more openings sure to come in the next several years, the next president will have a dramatic impact on these types of decisions. If another social conservative is elected president who will appoint similar justices to Roberts and Alito, I would guess Roe v. Wade will be overturned or severely cut down making abortion in America more and more difficult.
This week’s decision did a few things that prove this point. First, it revisited an issue that was largely already decided in a previous case when Sandra Day O’Connor was on the bench and the court found the ban unconstitutional. That means a more conservative court would likely find a way to overturn Roe despite the fact it has been the law for 40 years.
Second, this decision made no exception for the health of the woman. That has always been an exception and most late term abortions are performed for this reason. Third, this decision talked in terms of “morality" and the impact of abortion on the mental health of the woman, arguing women may not be aware of the effects. This argument further opens the door to overturning Roe on moral rather than legal grounds.
Finally, this decision delved heavily into the medical procedure itself, describing it in great detail and then making a determination that in the Court’s eyes it should be considered a criminal act. That is a dangerous precedent for many other medical procedures other than abortion but certainly again gives another argument to pro-life activists seeking to chip away and overturn Roe.
All the presidential candidates will now have to answer questions about abortion and judges and we all have to listen very carefully to the answers because abortion rights and other issues related to privacy hang in the balance.
The 2008 Presidential Election
In the past few years our elected Republicans have completely turned away from Conservative principles and have actually promoted Liberal doctrine. We have seen this in the out-of-control spending and unjustified beliefs in junk science and more government control of our lives. What was once a Republican election victory through the, "Contract with America" concept has now become the Death Warrant of the same Party.
The question is why? Why did the Republicans who lost all of these seats go south on the Conservative principles that made this country so great? I have surmised of a plan and I call this the L.I.A.R. Conspiracy.
L.I.A.R. is an anagram for, "Liberal Imitating A Republican". There are many L.I.A.R.s in and out of office. What has happened is that after the Contract with America booted the Liberals out of control of Congress they realized that the American people have grown tired with their agenda of more Government Control, Entitlements, Waste, Taxes and Spending. Yet because this is who they are they found themselves in a conundrum. They cannot change nor will they ever try to. Big Government and controlling the American people is their core.
So that, I suggest was when this plan was hatched. First they had to use their only ally to help convince the seated Republicans that despite what elections represent, the people want Liberal actions. Want to make a Republican vote on a bill that lacks Conservative values? Then get the mainstream media to run a poll that is slanted for the bill. Run constant news stories that portray the People as wanting this piece of legislature enacted. Hammer it home often enough and eventually it becomes fact.
This is pure brainwashing in its basic sense and the Republicans fell into the lies without a second thought. If you doubt this scenario, go back to the 2006 elections and see what the real truth was among all the American voters.
Yet still, Republican voters would never choose any Democrat over a Conservative. That is where the Democrats really snuffed the Republican brainwash victims. They all ran as Democrats with Conservative principles. They portrayed themselves as being more Conservative than the seated Republicans who were going nuts acting as Liberals. It was a slam-dunk victory for the Democrats and their mass media cohorts. The only Republicans who saved their "seats" were those who held on to Conservative values or were those who I have dubbed, the L.I.A.R.s.
One way that you can pretty easily tell who a L.I.A.R. is, is just by looking at who the Democrat party runs against them. As an example, John McCain has four times won his seat by running against an oddball ex-state legislator in 1986, an impeached ex-governor and civil rights activist in 1992, an environmental lawyer in 1998, and an 8th grade math teacher in 2004. These are not what can be called serious Democrat challengers, can they?
The fact is that if the DNC felt that McCain is a threat that needs to be removed one would think they could find a real political "Rock Star" to run against him. It can easily be deduced that McCain is viewed as one of their own even though he is currently a Republican. Shoot, McCain is so Liberal that John Kerry wanted him as a running mate BEFORE John Edwards.
When asked about the "Ticking Bomb Threat", he stated that, (paraphrase) "there is no way at any time and under any circumstance when torture should be used by America because it would lessen us in the eyes of the world". That statement in itself would violate the Presidential Oath of Office.
Because the Oath plainly states that the President will defend the Constitution (and its Preamble does call for the Common Defense). Thus, allowing thousands or millions of Americans to die just to save face with the world is a direct violation of the Oath of Office. As well as one of the most profound statements of absurdity ever blabbed by a Presidential candidate.
As a matter of fact, I am a lifelong Republican and yet like Ann Coulter, I will vote for Hillary if McCain wins the GOP. I write that because once Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid pretty much drives this country into a shambles the GOP would win back both houses within two years of her reign and leave her as a lame duck for the last two. I can only hope and pray we don't suffer another terrorist attack while they foolishly rule.
Better still, if McCain wins the nomination ALL Conservatives need to sit this one out and watch him take a fall. Then perhaps the other L.I.A.R.s in the party will understand that those who are not Republicans are no longer welcomed in the GOP.
Besides, if McCain were to become President I'd be scared to death about what he will do when pushed by some other country like Iran or North Korea. The guy scares me more than that lunatic Greg Stillson in the Dead Zone. "The missiles are flying. Hallelujah, Hallelujah!"
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