Nightly Ramble:The Choice Before Us

The bus is leaving and is starting on it’s 60 day journey, so let’s get to it.
After watching all the candidates, and after thinking intently about this for some time, now, I am to the conclusion that John McCain/Sarah Palin ticket is the only logical choice for where to place our support, as Americans. I know this will come as a bit of amusement to those who have been noting the questions about McCain I’ve had as this campaign started a year or so back.

Rest assured, those questions remain. However, if we view government as a necessary evil, as I have stated so often over the years, then we are forced by logic to admit that there is no perfect candidate. There are some who think that because of that, they cannot in good conscience vote for anyone who does not fit their criteria perfectly. However, that view too, is dead wrong in that it turns power over to a greater evil by way of abdication. I find that unacceptable.

I say it is incumbent upon us to support the least evil choice available to us, thereby choosing the path that is the least danger to our country, and thereby ourselves and our children, and the cause of freedom. A quick if slightly inaccurate way of saying it, is that we need to chose the person who will cause our country and its freedoms, the least damage. That criteria has never changed, over the 200 plus years of our county’s history, nor will it, ever.
Let’s leave aside the issue of experience for a moment. What’s left is the issue of trust.

Barack Obama, for whatever you consider to be his qualifications, freely associates with, and owes his career to William Ayers of the Weather Underground, who bombed the Capitol building and other buildings, and whose group is directly responsible for the deaths of police officers and others. Far from being repentant, Ayers now says he wishes he could have done more. Yet Barack Obama thinks Ayers to be just an average mainstream guy’. Obama’s people have been working hard against Stan Kurtz, who has been digging into the Obama Ayers relationship, using any tools at their disposal including threats. Forgive me, this does not engender trust that he’s got America’s best interest at heart.
That one point, all by itself would be enough to disqualify from ANY office in the land, much less the presidency. Now that statement is limited to people who had less of a myth built up around themselves, of course, Even that myth is starting to look a little shaky, however, now that Obama and those surrounding him, have had a chance to define him. When not taken in by the myths, someone looking with a critical eye does not find a great deal there to engender trust. The long list of unanswered questions… and more particularly, unsatisfactorily answered questions, leave him looking wanting, and simply unqualified for the office of POTUS.
Add to that, the idea of sitting in a radical’s church for 20 years, steeping his family in the activism of a preacher who screams “God Damn America” from the pulpit, and then claims he had ‘no idea that was going on’ does not strike me as overly trustworthy.
Someone who will meet unconditionally with the largest sponsor of state terrorism, Iran, without any preconditions whatever. doesn’t strike me as being overly trustworthy. The issue of trust in that particular should also be a major consideration to supporters of Israel… as we all should be. Given Joe Lieberman’s ties, there, I can’t help but think the major reason he did the speech the other night at the RNC was that he simply doesn’t trust Obama where Israel is concerned.

John McCain, on the other hand, while I make no secret about my distaste for some areas of his policies, is by comparison the far better choice, the far less evil choice. McCain draws a thick bright line between their approaches:

Senator Obama wants our schools to answer to unions and entrenched bureaucracies. I want schools to answer to parents and students. And when I’m President, they will.
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Senator Obama thinks we can achieve energy independence without more drilling and without more nuclear power. But Americans know better than that. We must use all resources and develop all technologies necessary to rescue our economy from the damage caused by rising oil prices and to restore the health of our planet.
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Again and again, I’ve worked with members of both parties to fix problems that need to be fixed. That’s how I will govern as President. I will reach out my hand to anyone to help me get this country moving again. I have that record and the scars to prove it. Senator Obama does not.
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I’m not running for president because I think I’m blessed with such personal greatness that history has anointed me to save our country in its hour of need. My country saved me. My country saved me, and I cannot forget it. And I will fight for her for as long as I draw breath, so help me God.

All these considerations add up to only one logical conclusion. Therefore, and after careful consideration of all this and much more,  BitsBlog offers it’s endorsement for the office of President of these United States to the ticket of John McCain and Sarah Palin.