For decades we have been trying to give credence to the voting system in order to inspire an apathetic voting populace. “Your Vote Counts”, “One Person – One Vote”, “If You Don’t Vote You Can’t Complain”, “Every Vote Matters”, on and on. Yet in this 2008 election the fact remains that all of this is not true to those who are doing the voting.
Now I will admit I’m bias toward Mike Huckabee but you have to believe me here or we have nothing, that this is more serious than my own leanings. I am after all, a bit left to the right, and a social conservative. But I have an itch that will not go away about the coronation of Citizen McCain. I have seen over time more on Fox News than CNN a propensity to crown any leading candidate regardless of how much time there is or how many people have yet to vote. The double minded reporting of polls being heavy indicators while saying polls don’t mean a thing is looney. The Scriptures tell us a double minded man is unstable in all his ways. As well as a kingdom divided can’t stand. Why is McCain being shoved down our throat?
In this process we have decided that as far back as the first week of January that McCain is the candidate that will go against the Democrats. Bill O'Reilly of Fox said when asked by Laurie Dhue why he and others do not even mention Mike Huckabee on the show as a contender Mr. O’Reilly said, “because he is not going to win”. If this is true why is Texas even voting on Super Tuesday II?
Now for Mr. O’Reilly to brag about how Fox News is accurate and fair and boast of the millions who watch his show, then to say, “because he is not going to win” is irresponsible to the voting people. If that was the case then we do not need to go on with the process of voting or having and covering a Super Tuesday II. Texas, Rhode Island, Ohio, and Vermont need not go to the polls. Your vote is worthless and your vote now does not count for anything because there is no way mathematically Huckabee can get enough delegates. After this kind of push from others in the past my own state of Washington tossed out votes as too tedious to count because after all it looked like McCain was going to win. As a delegate I had to wonder after 2 hours of delegating was my vote one of those that got tossed out as being of no consequence?
It never, ever occurs to anyone (even to a Harvard guy like O’Reilly) that Huckabee does not need so many votes to win over McCain he only has to keep enough votes away from McCain so McCain does not win and then force the issue to go to the convention. My goodness how far away is the Republican Convention. Anything could happen to McCain before that. People come and go from grace in this business as frequent as non-stops from New York to Los Angeles.
The main issue here is that the Sean Hannitys, Laura Ingrahams, and Ann Coulters gripe and moan about McCain and act like Huckabee is the invisible man. They won’t even say they don’t like him and for what. They just act like McCain is the “only” candidate and threaten to vote Democratic if McCain is not replaced or changes his politics to match theirs. Sean Hannity said in effect about McCain, What am I supposed to do just give up everything I believe in all this time and let McCain just walk away with the nomination? What extreme fiscal conservatives believe is not what drives the Republican Party. And the votes for McCain so far show this to be true. Republicans are leaning left. We are willing to let a left riding Republican take office while we kick and scream and will not acknowledge a true conservative, right wing, Republican get noticed. We will in the end get what we deserve.
The whole picture here is insane. The bottom line is regardless of who you vote for is the manipulation and arrogance of the media to steal the vote of the people away in a hasty election process is discouraging if not outright smarmy. Everyone has the right to vote without the prescience of fiscal conservatives. The forgone conclusions that are generated are bad for this country and bad for the Republican Party. We already suffer from low voter turnout nearly 2 to 1 compared to Democrats.
Israel asked for a king over and over and God did not want them to have one. He wanted them to be ruled by Him. But they persisted in asking and moaning and crying. So God gave them the king they wanted. In the end it was the ruin of Israel. King after king corrupted and failed the nation and it’s people. Overtime God could no longer help them until they turned from their ways and got Him back into the program.
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