Thread: What I want to hear from McCain-Palin

What I want to hear from McCain-Palin

Mychal Massie
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Posted: September 16, 2008
1:00 am Eastern

© 2008

The Sarah Palin and John McCain mania continues with the conservative base invigorated in a way not seen since "Ronaldo Maximus," aka Ronald Reagan, stormed into office with the force of a category 5 hurricane. And not unlike a powerful storm, McCain and Palin, because of the latter, have dramatically rearranged the political landscape – perhaps even permanently.

While I find McCain an objectionable choice, I personally believe that Palin may well become the new eponym for conservatism for generations to come. Still, for me, there are three critical areas I want addressed before my pulse quickens and my heart skips a beat at the thought of her in the White House.

I want to hear a definitive plan to free us of the burden of illegal aliens. I want to hear what the McCain-Palin ticket's plan is to stem the daily deluge of illegals flooding our country. I don't want to hear that illegals are good people looking for work, who want the same opportunity all Americans want. They're not Americans – they're criminals who are imposing tremendous financial burdens on our communities. They are criminals with unchecked and unknown diseases that are placing us at risk. I am not interested in hearing about immigration reform; I want to hear about strict immigration enforcement.

I want to hear McCain, and especially Palin, definitively say they oppose all forms of race and gender-based affirmative action. I want to hear them say they oppose race and gender-based set-asides in government contracting. I want to hear their positions on the anti-race and gender-based affirmative action ballot initiatives that are successfully sweeping across the country.

I want to hear Palin say that Sandra Day-O'Connor was wrong – that blacks can stand on their own without the debilitating assistance of a "great white government father." I want to hear them say that the way to afford college is through hard work, self-sacrifice, scholarships and loans/grants, not by race- and gender-coded diversity programs.

I want them to pledge that, if elected, they will, within their first 100 days, call for legislation ending the bailout of mismanaged companies. I want them to say that companies that maintain no sense of corporate propriety, but expect the taxpayers to financially right their sinking ships, will be permitted to sink.

I want them to advocate for said measures just the way McCain did for McCain-Feingold, Kennedy-McCain and McCain's Gang of 14 – to mention but a few.

Sarah Palin, in truth, is a fresh new face on the old pork barrel that has become the Republican Party. There exists the very real opportunity for her to make history as the first woman vice president, the first woman president and the first woman to be elected president. Thus, she has the ability to affect policy for a long time. Therefore, I want to be certain she is the one I want in the Oval Office.

If McCain-Palin are successful, we can rest assured the Republican Party will leave no stone unturned in its attempt to find another like her. Said success will engender a new wave of those who would have us believe they are in the image and likeness of Palin.

I know what a contentious disaster McCain can be and indeed has been. I want to know what I can expect from a President Palin, because the only reason I would consider voting for the ticket is to put her closer to the White House. With that thought in mind, I want to be absolutely sure of what I am getting, lest I forget the lessons learned with President Bush.

As friends and I discussed over dinner recently, an Obama/Biden ticket would be disastrous – but I argue only in the short run. Sarah Palin, on the other hand, is here to stay for a long time – ergo, if she isn't quite what we want to believe, she could be a greater disappointment than a recent presidential candidate who excited us eight years ago with catch-phrases like "compassionate conservatism."


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How could anyone be absolutely sure of what they're getting? These are politicians and politicians lie a lot. With Bush we thought we were getting a bumbling fool who would cause no trouble. But look what we got. In eight years he has brought the country to its knees and put in place programs to cause more destruction to our way of life and to the country. There is nothing absolute in politics.

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