Madame Vice President
October 29, 2008
Imagine if they'd hung Barack Obama in effigy in West Hollywood.
They'd be rioting in the streets of Los Angeles right now.
The Governor would have to call out the National Guard.
Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton would demand a civil rights investigation.
The media would be camped out on the front lawn of the perpetrator with cameras and satellite dishes.
University professors would appear on television to lecture us on the evils of white oppression.
An employee of the state would access the personal files of the offender and leak the details to the Los Angeles Times, which would actually publish them!
Some numbskull in West Hollywood did hang Alaska Governor Sarah Palin in effigy from his home this week, and the only thing the media commented on were the clothes and shoes worn by the effigy.
The F.B.I. said it was distasteful but not a crime, and declined to investigate.
That's ok. Governor Palin is tough enough to take it, and the First Dude is wise enough not to go tear the guy limb from limb.
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Now imagine if you will that six days before the November 4, 2008 Presidential election American voters get fed up with the Obama/media hate machine.
They take note of the fact that Barack Obama is neck deep in the subprime loan fiasco which has brought our financial system to its knees and decimated the retirement accounts of the people for whom he professes concern.
As they ponder the likelihood of a middle class tax cut, they consider the fact that he voted last year to raise taxes on everybody making over $42,000, calling it a matter of fundamental fairness.
The voters then recognize that Obama's entire political career has been oriented toward Marxist/socialist goals and that his intent is to redistribute wealth through high taxes and perhaps outright confiscation.
From their history they recall that this approach has always failed and has led to widespread privation and tyranny. For a prime example they look at Cuba, just a few miles off the coast of Florida.
During the next few days they ponder that Obama and his pals have covered up his radical associations, and that his best buds have been America-haters all of their lives.
The voters remember that on the one important foreign policy choice for which he has had actual authority to vote in Washington, namely the surge of troops into Iraq, he voted wrong.
They further note that he voted to cut off funding to our troops while they were in harm's way, and that Senator John McCain and Gov. Palin each have at least one son serving among those troops.
They recall the recent instances of Obama's ACORN organization committing voter registration fraud and vote fraud, as it tries desperately to steal this election for him.
They recoil at the injustice of Virginia's Secretary of State dumping into the trash the absentee ballots of thousands of American soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, allegedly because of a technicality, but in reality because they tend to vote Republican.
They know in their hearts that John McCain would never allow this to happen if he were President, and they look on in disgust at Barack Obama's silence on the matter.
They see Obama's operatives threatening and intimidating news stations for asking the most basic questions regarding his candidacy.
It offends their American values of decency, hard work, fairness, and a social contract based on these virtues.
Then they walk into the voting booths in New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Missouri, Wisconsin, Colorado, Nevada, Virginia, North Carolina and Florida.
While preparing to quietly exercise their most cherished American right, it occurs to them that they will never have to wonder if John McCain will do whatever it takes to defend this country, because he already has.
They realize that they can't trust Obama to do the same.
They ignore the media, Hollywood stars, the United Nations, the Europeans, and the Muslim world.
They exercise the common sense for which they are legendary as they cast their secret ballots for John McCain and Sarah Palin.
Now fast forward a few months to Sarah Palin appearing on "Hardball" with Chris Matthews.
Imagine the expression on his face as he addresses her: "Madame Vice President, welcome to the show".