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Conservative or Republican?

I find myself at a crossroads in my political worldview. The Republican Party has ceased to be Conservative.

When George Bush was running for President in 2000, Conservatives in the Republican Party raised concerns that he would drag the party left. They were correct. The same concerns are being raised of McCain today, and rightly so.

Last year and early spring Republicans tore into McCain’s history of liberal policies, but as soon as the media crowned him the presumptive nominee there was a collective sigh followed by an epidemic of political amnesia throughout the Party. To this day I still hear most Republicans reluctantly supporting McCain as the lesser of two evils, as if they are holding out hope that McCain won’t lead our country down the path to socialism like Obama promises to do.

But McCain has already surrendered to path of socialism. How so? By voting for the $700bn bailout bill with $150bn earmarks, and by caving on a bill that makes you and me pay extra closing costs on our next mortgage to help fund ACORN (i.e., voter fraud and programs that benefit the Democrats) and similar groups. Thanks to McCain we now we have nationalized banking and mortgages along with a Treasury that has become it’s own branch of the government without Congressional oversight. McCain has shown that he is ready and willing to launch the United States into a new era of socialism if he deems necessary, albeit slower than Obama would.

So I encourage my fellow Conservatives to reconnect with your core principles.  Many Republicans don’t realize the extent to which they have abandoned their core principles for the sake of the Party.

Where do I go from here?

Now I’m investigating the Constitution Party, which nominated Chuck Baldwin for President.  It seems to be a perfect fit for the Conservative who says to the Republican Party, “I love you, old friend, but I can’t go down this road any farther.”

To read more about the Constitution Party, visit here:
http://www.constitutionparty.com

Before you tell me I’m wasting my vote, please read this and then we’ll talk:
http://www.constitutionparty.com/news.php?aid=777

How John McCain Lost My Vote

Don’t worry, I’m not voting for Obama!

After the Sarah Palin pick for VP, I seriously considered voting for John McCain…until this past week.  This past week McCain proved that he is all talk and no substance when it comes to fighting pork-barrel spending.

On John McCain’s website it reads:

John McCain will veto every pork-laden spending bill and make their authors famous. As President, he will seek the line-item veto to reduce waste and eliminate earmarks that have led to corruption. Earmarks restrict America’s ability to address genuine national priorities and interfere with fair, competitive markets.

This past week when John McCain had a chance to stand up and fight $150 billion of pork-barrel spending on the bailout bill and he said and did nothing.  In fact, he voted to pass it.  I’m not even addressing the heinous nature of the bailout bill here.  I’m just talking about the pet projects added to it at the last minute.

You ask what is “pork-barrel spending”? Here are some examples from the bailout bill:

• $2 million tax benefit for makers of wooden arrows for children
• $100 million tax break to benefit auto racetrack owners
• $192 million in rebates on excise taxes for the Puerto Rican and Virgin Islands rum industry
• $148 million in tax relief for U.S. wool fabric producers
• $49 million tax benefit for fishermen and other plaintiffs who sued over the 1989 tanker Exxon Valdez spill.

Please explain what these have to do with the bailout?  THIS IS CORRUPTION, and McCain supported it.  Aside from a couple of things, McCain has lost my respect and my trust.  Here was an incredible opportunity to show the American people what fighting corruption looks like.  Here was a chance to name names as he claims he would do as President.  He has proven that he is all talk and no substance on one of the most crucial issues facing America today.  He has proven that he, too, has his price.

So who am I voting for?  This week I made up my mind.  I’m voting for the ONLY person who clearly understands the current financial crisis, who stands up to the President and his fellow Congressman when the situation warrants it, when nobody else will stand with him, and who actually does name names.  During the Presidential debates the media ostracized him for predicting this financial crisis, but now those same people turn to him for understanding.  I’m voting for the ONLY person in Congress who has proven time and time again with his votes that he understands the Constitution he is sworn to defend.

“Wasted” or not, I’m writing in Ron Paul.

President Andrew Jackson's Bailout

“Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter, I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves . . . I intend to rout you out, and by the Eternal God I will rout you out!”

President Andrew Jackson