McCain?!

Watching this election coverage is more depressing every day. I read one poll asking Americans who they trusted more with the economy, and Obama is leading McCain in that category by 15%. What in the world is happening to the American people? Do you feel like you are in some kind of alternate universe where down is up and left is right? Did someone drag me kicking and screaming through the looking glass while I was asleep?

I cannot understand how Obama is suddenly so credible with our economy—he has done nothing to inspire confidence in him over the past month. Granted, John McCain hasn’t acted presidential either, but I don’t know why Obama has such an advantage now. I am growing more skeptical of these polls at this point. The pollsters use differing samples in their surveys, and I have no doubt that these "representative" portions of the population can be manipulated to produce a desired result. Especially when the entire mainstream media are determined that Obama will win. The lopsided polls showing Obama leading by double digits have a psychological effect on voters in demonstrating the inevitability of an Obama presidency—and they are terrific marketing tools as well. Undecided voters may look at those polls and figure that they don’t want to be on the losing end of a Democratic landslide, and McCain supporters might decide it’s over anyway and forgo voting altogether.

In a little over 3 weeks, we will be facing a monumental choice. I am praying for a McCain victory, but if he does lose, I believe that he has no one to blame but himself. For the life of me, I will never understand why he would not attack Senator Obama’s relationship with Reverend Jeremiah Wright. That association is much more troubling than his ties with William Ayers, and his 20-year involvement in that church should be repugnant and inexplicable to every American.

McCain’s conduct during the bailout was exasperating and downright baffling. The Obama campaign was right, he was erratic. He should have stayed in Washington and skipped the debate like he pledged—now it smells like a cheap stunt. He should never have voted for the final bill either, especially with all of that pork piled on at the end. All throughout his campaign, he has vowed to veto earmarks—but he voted for this turkey? He would be in a much better position now politically if he had stuck to his maverick credentials and voted against the "rescue".

McCain’s backtracking at a campaign town hall event last week was thoroughly disheartening. When some questioners were begging him to fight and sharing their fears about Obama winning, he shook his head and mumbled something about us having nothing to be scared about if Obama is elected. Do what? We’re not supposed to fear this empty suit in the White House? Well, if that’s what he really thinks, let’s just end this right here. Evidently, McCain is starting to worry that the New York Times Editorial Board won’t be nice to him anymore if he continues to tell the truth about Obama. The New York and Washington D.C.-liberal elite "journalists" are writing columns decrying these hateful tactics of the "new" John McCain, and if only he would revert to the honorable man that they adored and emulated, all will be right with the world again.

Guess what, John? The mainstream media elitists are not rooting for you anymore. They never really loved you to begin with; they tolerated you in your efforts against George W. Bush, whom they passionately despised. But they have a new America’s sweetheart now, and they will stop at nothing to ensure the Messiah’s coronation. So when these pundits flatter you and advise you how to run your campaign, here’s a news flash: They want you to lose!

I hope that McCain will realize this sometime in the next 24 hours. If he doesn’t understand what is at stake in this election, if he chooses his honor over his country, then God help us all. We need a fighter in our President to tackle the evils in the world, and whatever faults the current President Bush may have had, we could count on him standing up in defense of our beloved country. Of course, we should be very frightened at the prospect of an Obama presidency, and this reaction has nothing to do with his race or his personal standing. His tax increases will devastate any chances for a rebound of our economy, his foreign policy naïvete will jeopardize our security as a superpower, his health care plan will penalize many Americans and small businesses for not participating—I could go on for days…But if John McCain does not have the stomach for this tough truth-telling, then we should have nominated someone who does.

Rush was right, my husband was right, my in-laws were right, Ann Coulter was right—conservatives just can’t trust McCain. I wish he would shut up about how proud he is for reaching across the aisle and working with the other side; that’s the last thing we want to hear. He even bragged at the last debate about working with Teddy Kennedy. Who is going to be impressed by that? Anyone outside of the far left? And as for him suggesting that Warren Buffett would be a good Treasury Secretary—has John forgotten whose side he is on?

I am so aggravated with the election turning in Obama’s direction, but McCain may still pull this one out. Don’t ask me how. Stephen Colbert says that McCain has a secret weapon--magic. The Senator has been counted out before, so I remain hopeful. He has had so many opportunities in this campaign to take the Messiah down for good, and I don’t know if he has any more chances now. That’s what is so discouraging—Obama is defeatable, but it seems like McCain isn’t able to do the defeating.