By John Burtis
Monday, November 6, 2006
Too many people think that all you do is skip to the voting booth, vote, and sashay home.
But this year, with the simmering hatred of the left all too visible everywhere, voting in many areas will be akin to running the gauntlet. It will be made as uncomfortable as possible. and many may not vote as a result.
You may pass friends, strangers, itinerant placard holders, professional rabble rousers who have already voted by absentee ballot, and the unfriendly faces from 527 groups dotting the local polling places, trying to sway you.
But this election is so vital that we've got to steel ourselves, confront our fears, park the car, and stroll past the signs, the heckling, the cat calls, and vote.
Vote because the fate of the nation hangs on our ballot.
Vote because if we don't, the rank poseurs like Kerry, Kennedy, Reid, and Pelosi will run the country into ruin.
Vote to keep Wrangel and Waxman from destroying the government, besmirching the President, and destroying our Constitution.
Vote to eliminate the chances of Hillary Clinton to villainize the White House in a repeat performance.
Vote to put that final coating of rust on the cheap, foreign donated tin of the Clinton legacy.
Vote to support the soldiers on the dark foreign ramparts while you stand in the warm safety of a voting booth they have paid for.
Vote to keep John Murtha from the wagon seat where the reins of legislative power lie.
Vote to hobble the further globetrotting of that raging anti-american zealot and terror worshipper, former President Jimmy Carter.
Vote to maintain the tax cuts.
Vote to keep our strong vibrant economy.
Vote to insure that the Supreme Court is not filled with any more far-left liberal judges who will use foreign laws as a basis for their patently political decisions.
Vote to slow the spread of radical Islam, whose adherents are bent on our destruction.
Vote because our lives depend on it.
No, folks, it's not going to be easy.
I'm a six-foot-four former football player and I'm dreading the side show that'll be circling the entrance to my local school tomorrow.
and by show I don't mean the jugglers, the cotton candy guys, or the dudes who show up selling the green horns, the plastic Irish bowler hats, or the balloons that dog any good parade route.
I mean the loud mouthed bums who'll get right in your face and implore you to vote for the hard core left wingers who have risen this year from nowhere and scored big with a single sentence platform, which reads about how they'll go to Washington and work against George Bush and trust them with all the rest. How their sainted mother was once a Republican until Mr. Bush destroyed her hope and her IRa and her CD's with this economy when the DOW hit 12,000. and how she's fighting for the bottom 99% who have nothing thanks to the long lost food stamp shipment and the oil companies and their profits. Yes, while the rest of us live in penury waiting for the federal handout for our smokes and booze.
and judging from the capers I've seen cut in years past, especially the madness centered on John Kerry's loss and the folks throwing themselves at me for an exit poll, it'll be daunting for the faint of heart, the uninitiated, those not physically strong, and folks not prepared for bureaucratic breakdowns, madness and the usual slowdowns.
I'm not looking forward to it all, but I've got to wade into the hurly burly and shoulder my way through.
I must vote, and so must you.
This off-year ballot may be as important as anything since Ronald Reagan's time.
“Some time…when the team is up against it, when things are wrong and the breaks are beating the boys – tell them to go in there with all they've got and win just one for the Gipper (http://www.filmsite.org/knut.html).”
Win one by voting.
Win one for america.
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