Last night's presidential debate between the two principals sadly lacked the meat and potatoes many of us want to hear. Even the Right's pseudo-conservative candidate, the Maverick from Arizona, missed a golden opportunity to ratchet up the stakes.
I heard nothing about proposed hate crimes legislation, nothing about abortion, nothing about guns, nothing about immigration, nothing about the Ten Commandments, and frankly, nothing that made me proud to vote for either candidate. Even my support for McCain, weak as it is, is largely based on my confidence in the strengths of Governor Sarah Palin.
(Palin is not qualified, you say? Recall that President Reagan was an actor-turned-governor before winning the White House in a landslide repudiation of hard-core leftist ideals when he routed the Peanut Farmer and sent him packing his bags back to Georgia.)
All of the debates that I have seen this year--presidential or vice-presidential--have been moderated by liberals, people you know will be casting their votes for the Muslim from Illinois. Why is this? Since the middle-of-the-road has long since dried up in this polarized political landscape, why have none of the debates been moderated by a true conservative? Michael Savage would raise the roof with tough questions that would make everyone squirm, and for this reason, he would have been great. Bill O'Reilley, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Newt Gingrich, Sam Brownback, former justice Roy Moore, Glenn Beck, Ann Coulter, and many others--any one of these people could have posed the pointed questions we needed to have addressed. But Mr Brokaw failed us by retreating into timidity. Huge surprise there.
Had I been Senator McCain, I would have taken a moment to reflect on Obama's appearance at a Christian church in southern California in which he responded to questions about abortion. It seems he feels that answering tough questions about the beginnings of life were above his pay grade. I would have nailed him to a wall by suggesting that if this is so, then surely the office of the presidency is also above his pay grade.
