2008 Election Tests American People more than Candidates

As with every election, all of the emphasis is placed upon the candidates and the campaign promises they will soon break. But in America, where the people are the government, either the problem or the solution to every challenge, the outcome of an election tells us much more about the people than about the candidates.

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Politicians are pander-bears. To win elections and gain power, they must assess what it is the people want to hear and pander to that will. Whichever candidate best assesses and panders to the will of the majority wins power. It’s little more than a beauty contest at the end of the day.

The People’s Moral Clarity in 2008

Those who still believe in the founding American principles of an unalienable God-given right to Life, individual Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, via 232 year old free market mechanisms, will stand in the voting booth and cast a ballot for John McCain and Sarah Palin; because this is the group they have aimed their campaign at. Those who believe that capitalism has failed the average American, and think that it is time to try an American version of global socialism, where resources are confiscated from those according to their ability, and redistributed to others according to their government-assessed “need,” will cast their ballot for Barack Obama and Joe Biden; because this is who they are pandering to in this election cycle. Those who don’t understand that their vote only counts when cast for one of these two candidates, will either sit it out or monkey around with what they perceive to be “lesser evil” 3rd party protest alternatives. These folks show their true colors by putting their already failed third party ambitions ahead of defending liberty, freedom and the nation they falsely claim to love. They know that a vote for anyone but McCain helps Obama become president and they know that Obama is the worst candidate to ever seek the Oval Office. But their third party ambitions are simply more important to them. There’s no moral clarity here and nothing American about it, but they don’t care.

The People’s Intelligence

Unfortunately, most Americans are only as smart as the information they glean from news outlets that have been promoting Democratic Socialism for decades now. “Man on the street” interviews, often intended as late-night jokes by Leno, Letterman or Stern, are really a sad demonstration of just how ill-informed the average American voter is today, thanks to the Obama Media and left-wing academia who have been dumbing down American voters for years now. It’s astounding how many Americans can’t name the current president or vice president, much less tell you which vice-presidential candidate is running with which presidential candidate, or what any of them actually stand for. No wonder they have no idea which branch of government controls the purse strings and which branch is the only one empowered to “make law.” Yet these are the folks who will take off work (or classes) to decide who the next leader of the free world will be. This is exactly why our founders originally limited voting rights to land-owners. They knew that protecting and preserving the right of self-governance required people capable of personal self-governance. They knew that people incapable of personal self-governance would one day vote for something else... Something much less.

The People’s Sense of Smell

Americans used to be able to smell an anti-American rat from a thousand miles away, as in the case of Hitler, Stalin, Lenin and Marx. But today, they can’t smell a well-documented anti-American communist Arab right under their noses. They know his name is Barack Hussein Obama, and that all three names are Arab-Muslim names, not African-American names. They know that Obama has as many terrorist friends and Osama. They know that Obama has spent twenty months running from his past, his birth records, his college records, his campaign funding records and all of his life-long friendships are still under lock and key less than 24 hours before the most critical election in modern history. And they can’t smell a thing! They see ACORN committing massive voter fraud, Obama raising record sums of illegal campaign money, his numerous nefarious friends over an extended period, and a laundry list of corrupt stories about this guy, and yet, they can’t smell anything.

The People’s Eyes

Blinded by Obama’s Marxist promise of “free-stuff,” many Americans seem to have lost sight of the value of “freedom.” Obama’s promise to strip half of Americans of their earned property and redistribute it to his campaign constituents seems to have captured the imagination of too many Americans who subscribe to the Democrat “something for nothing” mindset. No mountain of evidence that suggests this man is the worst presidential candidate in U.S. history is even visible to them. All they can see is Obama’s big money tree planted in their front yard and their field of vision is limited to only that false promise.

A Test of American Will

Will Americans vote for a culture that respects human Life, or for a culture of Death? Will Americans vote for Freedom or Free-Stuff? Will Americans vote for victory in the war on terror or retreat from the war on terror? Will Americans vote for candidates with a track record of accomplishment, or candidates with a track record of serving only themselves? Will Americans vote for a known American hero, or a known friend to terrorist, communists and racists? Will Americans vote for individual Liberty, or for government control of everything? Will Americans vote to uphold their Constitution, or to re-write their Constitution? Will Americans vote to preserve free-enterprise, or to penalize entrepreneurs for their success? Will Americans give the most popular governor in America an outsider’s chance to reform Washington DC, or will they vote for a thirty year member of the Senate good-ole-boys club? Among many others, these are the decisions being made in the 2008 election. The people will do what we have always done in America. We will elect the next leadership of the most prosperous, powerful and generous nation known to mankind. In a little more than 24 hours from now, we will know what the people have decided about the future of our representative republic. The people will decide to protect and preserve the founding principles and values that created the greatest nation on earth, or they will decide to put an end to those principles and values as they usher in a new era of Americanized Democratic Socialism. No matter how it turns out, the people will have spoken and the result will be a testament to the condition of the republic and the people of the United States. Two politicians will win, and two will lose. Which two ultimately win, is a statement more about the American people than about the candidates involved. I continue to choose the belief that patriotic Americans still outnumber the anti-American left in this country. I will believe that until I am proven wrong. The 2008 election is about America vs. anti-America. The choice has never been clearer. 232 years will make America the longest standing self-governed society in human history. Is 232 years the best we can do?