Lipstick on a Pig

Yes, I see the lipstick and I see the pig. Only the players are not as the media has portrayed.

The more I dig into John McCain's voting record, the less I like him. Consider the following:

• John McCain claims to be pro-life but has voted consistently not to overturn Roe v. Wade
• Just like President Bush, McCain has no problem keeping the US-Mexican border wide open
• He is in favor of amnesty for illegal aliens, which would allow several million of them to become US citizens. Over time, those millions will metastasize into fifty or perhaps a hundred million, given their accelerated birth rates
• He supported the most liberal Supreme Court justice on the bench, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, formerly a political director for the ACLU
• Sandra Day O'Connor would have been the swing vote in overturning Roe v. Wade, but Mr. McCain supported her in not overturning the 1973 decision
• He embraced ultra-liberal Ted Kennedy's ideas and formed the Gang of 14 which assisted in defeating some of Bush's best judicial nominees
• Twice, he voted against Bush's tax cuts
• He opposes ANWAR and offshore drilling
• He also led the fight against coercive interrogations of enemy combatants

Clearly, this man is a Democrat with an (R) after his name. And clearly, Sarah Palin is the lipstick, but regrettably, Mr. McCain is the pig.

Sarah Palin would be a wiser choice for president than John McCain, along with a conservative running mate of the likes of Mitt Romney or Fred Thompson or Mike Huckabee. If you're a true Republican or even a Constitutionalist as I am, this ticket would be the best we could hope for.

Unfortunately, we no longer have these options, and so I will hold my nose and cast my ballot for McCain-Palin on November 4. Electing Obama would be a disaster of unimaginable proportions.

However, one might harken back to the 1976 election in which President Ford lost to Jimmy Carter, who did such a terrible job in his four years that the voters wiped him off the map, ushering in the eight-year-long Reagan era. Following this line of thinking, four years of extreme leftist (a Muslim with communist policies) Barack Obama could set us up for eight years of President Palin beginning in 2012.

But I don't think I could suffer through four years of Obama with perhaps a house and senate under Democratic control. Hate crimes legislation and the Fairness Doctrine would certainly be enshrined into law during 2009.

However you slice it, Sarah Palin just might be a young, female Ronald Reagan.