Actually, yes, I did watch it while I was at work. I was watching from the Fox website. But whatever…

Erica,

I have no idea where you are coming from. We have three weeks left until the election and McCain won’t say exactly what he’s going to do. This isn’t merely my opinion. Read other conservative blogs and listen to people. They’re saying the same thing. As far as this communist thing you keep harping on, I really have no idea where you’re going with this. It’s coming out of left field.

Nullifying the importance?
Um, did you actually read what I wrote?
Ok, let me try again. I’ll try to make this really simple so you can understand. We have two years between election cycles, which are congressional. We have four years between presidents. Ok, 2008…presidential and congressional. 2010….congressional…2012…presidential and congressional. Are you getting this?

Great! If things go the way they probably will (i.e. large Republican losses in this years election in both houses), then the Republicans cannot regain any seats until at least 2010. That means for at least two years, the Democrats will essentially run the country almost unopposed. That is what I mean by irrelevant. Unless there’s a magical election between those periods that you’re aware of. So where does this fit in with some “communist agenda”?

Last time I checked, the Democrats aren’t imploding. They’re simply becoming more leftist. There are schisms in that party that may erupt soon, hence the whole issue between Hillary and Obama in the primary. As far as the Republicans are concerned, they have lost their Conservative message, which is why they’re in this mess right now. The battle is more subtle than the Democrats, but no less real. The issue there is between the moderate Rockefeller Republicans (McCain’s group) and the Conservative base. This defeat will hopefully get the real conservatives back in so the Republicans can regain some ground by 2012. I hope this helps to clear things up.

Compared to Obama, he sounded a lot more knowledgeable, regardless of what he looked like. In a campaign speech, his presentation is light years different, much more forceful. The only thing I can think of is the difference in the venue and his ability to project in a smaller enclosure. McCain is starting to come out with questions about Obama’s plans and who is associates are. It’s more of what Obama won’t do then what he will do. I know he won’t make an honest effort in keeping Iran from having a nuclear weapon, that is not a priority for him.

As far as trying to make the republican party irrelevant, you are nullifying the importance of this country’s foundation. Part of the communist agenda is to influence the two largest parties into imploding each other so the socialist thought will transition to communism.

Doesn’t look like he said that we engaged in WWII because of the Holocaust to me, does it to you? Maybe if you are using the letters to make an anagram.

Second, this is what Barak said in July:
“Well, look, if that’s the criteria by which we are making decisions on the deployment of U.S. forces, then by that argument you would have 300,000 troops in the Congo right now—where millions have been slaughtered as a consequence of ethnic strife—which we haven’t done”.

“We would be deploying unilaterally and occupying the Sudan, which we haven’t done. Those of us who care about Darfur don’t think it would be a good idea,” he said.

And this is what was said in the debate:
“So when genocide is happening, when ethnic cleansing is happening somewhere around the world and we stand idly by, that diminishes us.

And so I do believe that we have to consider it as part of our interests, our national interests, in intervening where possible.

But understand that there’s a lot of cruelty around the world. We’re not going to be able to be everywhere all the time. That’s why it’s so important for us to be able to work in concert with our allies.”

In both instances he says that yes, we can not stand by while genocide happens but invading every country who commits these atrocities is not a workable solution.

I don’t know what debate you watched, but McCain did, in fact, look awful. At least in the first debate he looked halfway decent even though he didn’t hammer Obama as much as he could and should have (there were several opportunities for him to do so and he backed off every time).

Obama’s lying through his teeth, but that’s besides the point. Debates are as much about presence as issues, and when you have one person giving clear answers (even though they are full of crap and totally wrong) as well as looking confident and the other is just hemming and hawing (and wandering around aimlessly in the background while Obama’s talking) and not giving clear cut answers, guess who the undecided are going to lean to? You’ve got to look at this with a larger perspective than just the conservative (we’ve already made up our minds). Heck, I’m conservative, I know what this party will do to the country, but it’s not about the conservatives at this point. It’s the independents who still need to make up their minds, even at this late hour.

Oh yeah, and Republicans will be irrelevant. Here’s why: Right now, the Republicans have a little less than 200 seats in the House. I can guarantee you they will lose a lot of seats this time around, making their presence even weaker. That means the Democrats will pretty much rule the House (though looking at the way Republicans have acted since 2006, the Dems already do). As far as the Senate goes, the only thing the Republicans have is the filibuster (there is no filibuster in the House). The Dems will gain about 15 seats in the Senate and will totally control that. So let me reiterate, you will have a leftist Democratic president, a House commanded by Pelosi Democrats and a Senate headed by Reid where the Republicans can’t even filibuster. What part of irrelevant didn’t you get??? That’s hardly communist (what did that mean anyway), it’s reality.

President Obama leading the USA in WWII, that is nightmare what if scenario..

I can hear him now, “I plan to sit down and negotiate with Adolf Hitler and Mussolini. It is obvious that the failed policies of Woodrow Wilson during WWI’s victory caused this current situation. Hitler seems to be a reasonable man that I should be able to find common ground with. It is obvious we can’t beat them in a war as the failed policies of Coolidge, Hoover and Wilson left us without a standing army. I do not support the war-mongering from Winston Churchill and I plead for him to join us at the negotiating table at the League of Nations. Together we can solve this crisis.”

Hitler of course pledged to not attack his “brothers in the Rhineland” (meaning Brussels, Belgium, Holland, France) shortly before he invaded. He also broke the non-aggression pact with Russia. That is not much of a track record for honor agreements.

Now here is the million dollar question, Had Barack Obama been President during WWII, which language would we be speaking today? Would it be German or Russian? Because we most certainly would have been controlled by one of them.

Honestly, as much as I would like to see McCain in the White House – oh, OK, you caught me, I really am more enthusiastic about seeing Governor Palin spend a pleasant 4 years at the Naval Observatory as a prelude to *her* moving into the White House – you have to admit it would be a hoot a minute if Obama were to win. I know it’s selfish to consider it when our country might not survive it, but can you imagine the Paul Shanklin parodies on Rush with Obama living on Pennslyvania Boulevard? Yeehaw!

McCain was soft, but did fine. Obama hammered himself by lying again. No clue on foreign policy, and yes, if he’s elected, there will be a lot of nonsense forced on the military. Stop trying to make any particular party irrelevant in your own mind, they are part of the reason we have the freedoms we do. And by saying irrelevant, you sound like a communist.

I can’t even imagine the nonsense the military will have to go through in the next four years. Well, I can, but I don’t want to think about it. It’s too depressing.