President McCain

With the addition of Sarah Palin on the (R) ticket, the election in November now appears to be McCain's to lose. The selection of the female bulldog governor of Alaska was nothing short of a stroke of genius by the Republican team, amounting to a pleasant digression as well as a decisive swing in the polls.

Voters on the right, who would otherwise have been inclined to sit this one out, are now nearly unanimous in their support for the revamped Republican ticket -- if not for McCain, then at least for his pretty running mate; and given McCain's age, Mrs. Palin might find herself seeking a presidential bid of her own in 2012. And she'll have four years of VP experience to add to her achievements as governor.

Certainly there are women of a moderate political persuasion who will cast their votes for a woman, now that Hillary has been vanquished at least for another four years. Governor Palin fits the bill nicely.

Painful as it is to acknowledge, there are white people who will not vote for a black man for president. While I do not hold to this line of thinking myself, I do understand it. However, note that Mr. Obama is not a Negro -- he is an Arab-American who happens to look like a black man. But he appears to be advertising himself as an African-American, so he will live or die (politically speaking) by that decision.

Here in the blue state of my current residence, Washington, as well as neighboring Oregon (which I sardonically refer to as San Francisco North, Camp Stalin, Portlandgrad, and others), insanity runs rampant. To wit, over last night's dinner, I had the opportunity to discuss the latest election developments with a confused Obama supporter, a Christian woman who is buying into the mainstream media's adoration of the Muslim candidate who calls himself a Christian whenever he finds it advantageous to do so. This poor woman has been thoroughly indoctrinated by the major media spin doctors, believing Osama -- er, Obama -- to be all about positive change, a man who will undo all of Bush's failed policies (I bristle at these words and will address them later). She recoiled sharply when I lectured her on Islam's bloodthirsty quest to take over the west, one square inch and one political office at a time, the crown jewel being the United States presidency; and she was indredulous at my suggestion that Barack Hussein would happily trump our Consitution and invoke Sharia Law at his earliest opportunity.

What better time to dupe the American public (not an especially difficult task) than in the months leading up to November? Osama (oops, there I go again) has slipped on a few key occasions, Freudian or otherwise. In a recent interview with George Stephanopoulos, Obama referred to his Muslim faith; the interviewer corrected him by suggesting, "You mean your Christian faith?" to which Obama quickly recanted. On another instance, the Prince of the Left referred to the fifty-seven United States. Oops, Barack, did you mean the fifty-seven states of Islam? Even a nine-year old wouldn't have made that blunder.

As far as "Bush's failed policies," this term is bandied about with great vigor and glee by the communist American ultra-left. To be sure, Bush has failed in some regard. But he has fought the war on terror well (not perfectly, but consider that we have not been attacked since 9/11), he has kept the oil spigot flowing uninterrupted (when did you last see cars line up to buy gas?), he has thwarted useless and bigoted hate crimes legislation from becoming law, he has kept taxes low, and he battled a fusillade of left-wing extremists in the Senate who illegally refused to allow an up-or-down vote on his court nominees, while still managing to appoint two staunchly conservative justices to the Supreme Court. Bravo!

Bush's legacy will be in these appointments to the highest court.

Among his failures: The war in Iraq could perhaps have been handled differently; we still have a gaping hole along the Rio Grande, allowing millions of undocumented illegal aliens to sneak through and assimilate into our culture as well as oil does with water; imported goods continue to flow too freely and without tariffs, while our exports are routinely tariffed to the point of non-competition. Free trade is a farce and always harms the United States.

As long as he can distance himself from the failures President Bush has made, thus avoiding the label of Bush's Third Term, John McCain is a certainty to be sworn into office on January 20th, 2009.