My Voting Strategy-Time For Change

When it comes down to it, what I’ve wanted since this whole election began is change.  I want a change from the same small group of small minded people determining what is “important” to the American people.  For years now they told us that Americans are God-fearing, gun-loving, morally superior patriots.  According to them we all went to church every Sunday and thought that our country was was guided personally by the hand of God.   Jesus was our leader’s favorite philosopher–and Americans agreed.  Only out of touch elitists thought the answer was sophomoric.   In their story Americans were mainly Christian fundamentalists who believed that abortion was murder.  That gay people were sinners and an abomination to God.  It didn’t matter that every poll consistently showed that this was not the case.  According to the tale, the war against Iraq was retaliation for Saddam’s complicity in the 9/11 attacks.  Furthermore, Saddam was on the verge of destroying the homeland with his nuclear weapons.  Anyone who opposed attacking Iraq was unpatriotic, practically traitorous.  The French were the scum of the Earth, to the point of reclaiming our “Freedom fries”.  It didn’t matter that everything they said was a lie.  They knew what the American people were thinking (although they’ve never really explained how they knew), and they felt it was their duty to explain to them what they, the American people, wanted so that they wouldn’t have to think for themselves. .These people, our self-important, lying media, gave us eight years of the worst President in history,  cultural narratives that never really existed, and have proven that given the complacency of most Americans, they can put whatever untested, unqualified, corrupt tool in office that they damn well please.

They have become so entrenched in their belief that they understand Americans so well that they have appointed themselves as shepherds to tell the people what they believe before they can think it out for themselves.  And what they have decided now is that Americans are actually nothing like the heartland, church going, patriots that they were four years ago.  Today they are post racial idealists–those that are rejecting the politics of fear and war and embracing the “change” that Obama represents.  Everyone else is a racist troglodyte.  Even those of us who have always espoused liberal views  The mere fact that we can’t see Obama as the embodiment of those ideals makes us flawed and worthy of nothing but scorn.

This is the same cabal that told us that sexism didn’t exist anymore.  That Hillary was using it as a political tool.  Meanwhile, cynical charges of racism were upheld as Gospel truth, regardless of their tenuous basis in reality.  They spoke of cankles, and pantsuits, and cleavage, and taking women into rooms and killing them.  They likened Hillary and Chelsea to a pimp and a prostitute, they said she wouldn’t be anywhere without her husband.  Then they ridiculed her when she cried foul.  They said that the American people were beyond seeing women as anything but equals.  All the while they accused her of appealing to the dark racist hearts of every white American.

Now is time for change.  It is time to show the media that they do not have the last word.  We must prove to them that we are not irrelevant.  We will not be cut out of the loop when determining what we are thinking and what is best for us.  The only way to do that is to make sure that this year’s predetermined winner is sent packing back to Chicago with all his corrupt, and unscrupulous friends.  The only power I have is my vote.  I will vote for John McCain and Sarah Palin to ensure that our media does not cut us off from the decision making process for good.  If they get what they want again this time, we may not have another chance.

Note: I got these playing cards at the Palin Rally yesterday in Raleigh.  I was surprised at how graciously they treated Hillary Clinton.  I think they may have been thinking of PUMAs. Take a closer look at the button she has on.  Hmmm……..