Election Day Prediction: John McCain Wins

I’m not a psychic but I think a lot of Americans are tired of being told who is going to win the election and who they will be voting for.

Someone on the news made a good point last night, and that is that with McCain you know what you’re getting– for better or for worse— but with Obama you don’t. He has the most liberal voting record in the Senate and yet is on TV in these final weeks talking like a conservative— cutting taxes and inefficient government programs. What?

He talks about George W Bush’s “failed economic policies” to describe the housing crisis and economic clusterfuck as if W told everyone to buy a house they couldn’t afford.

He’s so vague because he doesn’t want to be held to anything when he does what most liberals do, and tax the pants off of us and continue to have us chase the carrot called, Hope, Change, Progress, The New Deal… whatever.

John McCain was once interested in a 15% flat tax, and I hope he still is. That is truly the way to set people free and create change: give them more of their money.

The private sector is cold and uncaring, but they do produce good results. The government pretends to care, but delivers little.

Walmart (liberals hate Walmart) is now offering hundreds of prescriptions for $4 per month. That’s pretty impressive. Why haven’t Democrats been able to form this coalition of healthcare companies to offer cheap generic drugs in bulk? You know they have their phone numbers.

The carrot and the stick. If they give you the carrot you stop chasing the carrot. They need more tax money before they can ____ ___ ___. Whatever blank is.

Forget about hollow abstract verbs like Change and Hope.

Hope is not a method.

Demand more of your money to make your own decisions. Thanks for the offer, financial planner Obama, but I think i’ll handle my own financial affairs.

But.

If Obama does win, let’s not do what the Democrats did for the last 8 years to George Bush and make him Obama into Stalin or Fidel Castro.

Let’s keep it honest and fair and bring some honesty and dignity back to politics.

The key to living in a free society is civillity. Democrats seem to have forgotten with all their crazy Bush-hating that has bizarrely ceased 100% now that they think Obama is a shoe-in (war crimes charges?). Democrats have been divisive, not George W Bush, as Obama claimed.

Let’s show them how to act properly.

Let whomever wins the election succeed or fail on their own merits. (Let’s just hope it’s the old guy)

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November 4th, 2008

Author

andyfox1979

8 Comments

Tom

1

You’re right about the fact that Bush had little to do with the housing crisis–that owes more to Clinton’s presidency. And you’re right that “Hope” and “Change” are empty slogans (good thing Republicans never use those!) Democrats this year have finally caught up to and surpassed Republicans in the arms race of smart, ruthless campaigning. It just so happens though, that this year the guy with the better, more concrete ideas also happens to be the guy with the best slogans and the best marketing.

You know what you’re gonna get economically with McCain… some offshore drilling, and a blanket promise to cut pork. That’s not much to hang your hat on, sorry. I want us to be a leader in the emerging renewable energy industry, and John McCain ain’t gonna be the guy who can do that. And I’m fucking sick of these pointless wars with tinpot dictatorships that don’t make us safer and cost trillions of dollars (where my conservatives at?)
November 4th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Johnny Firecloud

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For once, the Devil you know seems infinitely scarier than the one you don’t. But maybe that’s just hippie logic. Guess we’ll see.
November 4th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
Aubrey

3

Pointless wars?

We attacked Afghanistan because they were safe guarding the group that attacked us on 9/11. That doesn’t seem pointless to me.

We attacked Iraq because a ruthless dictator had spent a decade thumbing his nose at us and laughing all the way to the bank. We gave freedom to millions of people and gave them a chance to decide their own future. What part of that is pointless? So it cost us some money, big fucking deal. Our government has no problem printing more to pay for our entitlement programs so why should it be so hard to print some for other people to live free?
November 6th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
junkyard

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Aubrey, don’t you know by now that all hippies are just nascent yuppies? They don’t care about other people’s freedom, they just want everyone to buy an electric car so they can feel smug about “creating environmental awareness” and “having stock in Toyota”.
November 6th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
Roclawzi

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Oh, Aubrey, crack a history book and stop getting all your information from Bill O’Reilly. Hussein was in power because of the US, supported by the US in the invasion of Iran, and it wasn’t until he wasn’t paying dividends that the US recognized him as the vicious despot he was all along. And then after we were attacked, we were mad and took it out on the country we had the biggest beef with, namely Iraq. They weren’t behind the attack, but the US needed to kick somebodies ass and finding a handful of terrorists plotting in some cave or cheap apartment isn’t really satisfying. As far as I’m concerned, the only thing that would make this war on terror a success is Osama Bin Laden (another former US collaborator) at the end of a rope. Hanging over a pool of sharks. With shark rabies and mouthfuls of AIDS infected needles.
November 7th, 2008 at 11:41 am
Aubrey

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Thanks for taking my original statement and changing it to meet the needs for your rant. I merely pointed out that neither war is pointless. I didn’t go a step further and say that the Iraq war was more important or that it was tied to Osama. In fact, I agree with you that seeing Osama at the end of the blah, blah, blah would be the ultimate reality TV moment.

However, it doesn’t matter if we helped Saddam’s Ba’ath party come to power in 1963. What matters is that he spent the 90’s defying international mandates and nobody did anything about it. If the UN was so god damn powerful, then maybe they could enforce their own rules, but they never do. It’s just one resolution after another. (Perhaps they should start poisoning the edge of the letter they send to a country and hope the bad guy gets a paper cut.) History shows us that the UN is just a moneypit for stupid shit idealists who think the world should just get along. Face the facts, evil people don’t give a shit how nice you look in a suit or how well you give a speech. They want to use whoever they can to get whatever they want. A kick ass military is the only thing that will convince those people they aren’t as powerful as they think they are.
November 10th, 2008 at 7:13 am
Dan

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Aubrey, I like your posts. And if the whole Iraq - Afghanistan excursion cost money, isn’t it worth it to deal with those dead-enders over there than on Michigan Avenue? It’s been 7 years and counting. I don’t think living in DC, NY or downtown Chicago is such a hot idea now. In any event, Obama will inherit whatever safeguards Bush put in place. Hope he is a realist.
November 14th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
andyfox1979

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yeah i second that, good comments aubrey.
November 14th, 2008 at 4:38 pm