One of the things I learned was the expression “heighten the contradictions,” a phase that wannabe Lenins back in my day used whenever they set out to bait the police into attacking peace marchers.

By “heightening the contradiction” between the supposed protective role of the police and their baton-wielding attacks on helpless middle-class burghers, the burghers would come over to communism.

Of course, ditzes that the Marxists are/were, they could not conceive that the concept works both ways. So, here’s my Marxist prediction:

An Obama presidency, especially if it involves roles for thugs like Wright, Ayers and Dohrn, will heighten the contradiction between “hope and change” and a street-wise neo-Marxist administration that will *deliberately* weaken our economy, our freedoms and our ability to defend ourselves or our allies.

For those of you who remember Altamont back in 1969, California’s homicide-inducing attempt to duplicate the mystique of Woodstock, you’ll understand what I told my yellow-dog Democrat wife this morning: “You have voted to go to Altamont. I’ve decided to stay home and get the medicine and hospital bed ready for your return.”

We pray, we work, we vote and when all is said and done,
“our only hope lies in our Creator, Redeemer and Comforter. … and pray some more.”

My 8 year old discerning Christian Conservative grandson, Tanner, has bugged his Mom for days to go vote with her. Daughter said no because lines would be long and tiring, etc. Son Tanner came home from school yesterday and said, “My Social Studies teacher said we would get an extra 10 points on the next test if we went with our parents to vote.” He is a straight A student and does not need the points but Daughter said, “Yes!”

They went this morning, in and out in 14 minutes, ever after discussing the ballot, candidates, etc. He is a very discerning and aware Palin “voter” and discussed the Florida Fiasco, chads, crooked voting, etc.

So for you guys who will be around in thirty five years, vote “Tanner for President” just for me (and your future).

In Christ eternally,

ExP(Jack)

I don’t hear any conservatives whining that, should Sen. Obama prevail today, they will flee the country.

It may be because conservatives are patriots and have true devotion to our foundational principles; it may be that we’re just naturally stubborn; it may be that there’s simply no other place on this earth where our vision of a land of liberty can be realized. Whatever the reason, conservatives will stay, will unite, will work, and – ultimately (I believe) – will prevail in dragging this country back toward the principles to which our founding fathers mutually pledged their Lives, Fortunes and sacred Honor.

Voting for Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin today is a step along the path. They’re not perfect, but who among us is?

Today, my wife and I will go to our polling place (the last time I’ll have that opportunity in Washington state – the curse of all-mail voting is about to descend). I’ll pray before I go – for our country, and for our next president (regardless of who it is) because ultimately our only hope lies in our Creator, Redeemer and Comforter. I’ll take my children, so they can see that my wife and I make the exercise of the sovereign franchise a priority.

And then I’ll wait and watch, and pray some more.

VOTE FOR McCAIN/PALIN!

It’s my observation that conservatives tend to be “loners” to a certain extent. “You leave me alone and I’ll leave you alone” sort of person. Non-joiners. Liberals, on the other hand, seem to me to be joiners to the max…if there isn’t a group, they’ll form one. If you don’t belong to their group, then you’re the “other”. Not so to conservatives – they tend to just shrug their shoulders and move along. Look at the 60s – the beatniks, the hippies….they complained about the uniformity of dress of their elders, the suits and ties for business etc. They rebelled. So how did they rebel? Every dingdong one of the wore levis with rips (some even in the same places!) and tiedye shirts. If they _really_ wanted to be different, some of them would have worn suits among their compadres – but did they? no – because they didn’t really want to be _different_ – they just wanted to rebell and not wear what their parents told them they should wear.

So, what I’m saying is that conservatives are going to have to overcome their preference for being loners a bit. You can’t really accomplish a great deal politically one by one – you need to be part of a cohesive group of some sort. It’s a physics kind of thing…force = mass x velocity. If you have no mass, you get no force. That’s kind of what the community activism is…acquiring mass. If we don’t do what we might prefer not to do, we might be forced to do what we don’t _want_ to do. Theoretically, if conservatives achieve success, they could go back to their preferences – as long as they keep some guards on duty in case action is again necessary!

SueK,
We’ll all be debating *a lot* about the definition of conservatism going forward.

Just one warning: How many conservatives would be comfortable with changing, in your statement above, the words “preference for individualism” with “anti-abortion preference”?

>> A certain amount of anti-abortion preference will have to be set aside in order to prevent an overload being foisted upon us. >>

Looks a little ugly, doesn’t it? That’s not my position; I’m just saying, let’s not get ahead of ourselves until we’ve all begun to thrash out the issues.

Let’s have the vigorous, transformational debates starting Nov 5th! There are exciting, wonderful times leading into the 2010 Republican primaries, when we’ll all via our votes start defining precisely what the conservative resurgence is going to look like.

I just hope it doesn’t take too many generations.

And if McCain wins? Well, we has seen the enemy and he is us. We better get to work getting honest to goodness conservatives in office. Work like the Leftists have done, and fill the bureaucracies with our people, then vote for low level conservative politicians, and then move up the ladder. Learn to recognize other conservatives and organize with them. A certain amount of preference for individualism will have to be set aside in order to prevent an overload being foisted upon us.

We can do it.

I remember my liberal college days. We were for John Anderson. “Who?” you may ask, and these days I wonder the same thing.

If the youthful Obamites get their wish, they’re going to be a part of plunging us into the period of “hard, painful, concrete lessons” of an Obama Presidency with a Democrat Congress. And they’ll experience some of the worst of those harsh, concrete lessons: Deep economic troubles and a downward spiral do not benefit the youthful.

Obama is nothing more than a weak mouthpiece, and the power players in Congress know this. They will ride roughshod over any attempt by him to take things slowly. As a leader, he’s a total joke. Worst for him, he will agree with everything they give him, but he just wants to spread it out over eight years, and he won’t be able to.

If it all weren’t going to be so incredibly harmful to us all, it would be incredibly entertaining to watch.

Therefore, VOTE FOR MCCAIN/PALIN!

The stakes are so high. There’d no enjoyment to be found anywhere in the severe pain we all will suffer with an Obama victory.

John McCain is a good man and a great patriot. He is conservative enough to support, especially when you consider the alternative. He is authentic and I know where he stands. I can trust John McCain.

The polls keep narrowing and narrowing *and* they have severely overweighted their numbers already due to an expected Democrat turnout advantage. Don’t believe the hype! This election is totally up in the air. Tomorrow will be a very entertaining day if you don’t let the tension of it all get you down. For those looking at it purely as political theatre, tomorrow might be the most interesting political day of our entire lives.

VOTE FOR MCCAIN/PALIN!

But just in case you don’t…! Check these out today…

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/11/the_dems_election_day_aces_in.html

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/11/the_new_york_post_looks_back_o.html

In spite of what the media would tell you, John McCain has a good economic plan to invigorate the “can do” spirit of America and move the country forward, not the “it’s our fault” rhetoric of the left.

A man who endured unvelievable brutality as a prisoner of war, and yet has lived his life optomistic about the future of America will serve us well.

http://explorations.chasrmartin.com/2008/11/02/why-ill-vote-for-mccain/

I understand…but you must admit that the privilege encourages fraudulent voting. I’m thinking in particular of residence homes where the residents – who may or may not be mentally competent for whatever reason – are coached on how to vote by “assistants”. I’d rather see a policy that required an evaluation every couple of years for competency – like the requirement that you take a vision test every year after age xx (whatever it is) to get your driving license…or an actual driving test instead of just the show up and pay for a renewal. I’d rather have special accommodations made for those who are handicapped physically – how about a drive in voting booth? Special privileges – like going to the head of the line. Certainly infirmities and pushing 80 is no reason to curtail your voting privileges! I’d rather have you voting than the 25 and under crowd – I consider youth to be an infirmity in itself! one that is fortunately usually remedied with age!

Of course…then you have all those young soldiers. They get to vote (in my country!) no matter what their age. I can’t believe that Congress is resisting making it easier for them to vote. That’s scandalous.