10-22-08

 

     With less than two weeks left in the Presidential Campaign, I am forced to make my call for Barack Obama to win. Not because he will win the most votes (I predict a very narrow margin of victory), not because the people are hungry for change and not because he is the better candidate for the Presidency. Obama will win because many conservative Republicans will refuse to vote for John McCain. They will either sit out the election, vote for a third party candidate (such as Libertarian Bob Barr) or even go as far as to vote for Obama. Why would they turn on the GOP candidate? In their view, McCain is not a "True Conservative." His stance on issues such as immigration, gay rights, his pick of Sarah Palin as his running mate over Mitt Romney or Mike Huckabee and his support of the recent Wall Street bailout has angered many hard line conservatives to the point that they would rather see the Democrats win the White House as well as take full control of the Senate. Their reasoning, if the U.S. had to suffer under a leftist administration of higher taxes, social engineering, more regulation and bigger government  for four years, the American people would run to a more conservative version of the Republican party for relief. Granted, John McCain may not be the second coming of Ronald Reagan, but he is far better than a Socialist like Barack Obama. If hard-line conservative decide to play holdout, Obama will win and we will all suffer the pain. That is an attitude we cannot afford. So I suggest you go to the polls, hold the noses you would cut off to spite our faces and vote for the man our party chose..John McCain.

 

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While I'm at it...

 

 I might as well make some other calls of  less important matters:

1) Philadelphia beats Tampa Bay in the World Series (6 games)

2) Chicago and New England in the Super Bowl, Patriots win.

3) Michigan State Wins the Big-10 and beats Southern California in the Rose Bowl (with apologies to U of M).

4) Wayne State U. (my alma mater) wins the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC, NCAA Div. II)  Football title.

 

"Enough Said!"