Michael not Mike

I’ve actually heard people say that they are going to vote for Obama simply because “we need a change.”  Jeez.

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Even though I really don’t do costumes, I’ll probably attend a costume party being thrown tonight over in east Nashville by some friends of mine.  I might swing by the Obama/Biden headquaters right by my house and pick up a campaign button.  That way I can go as the scariest thing I know of – a Democrat.  The only downside is the increased likelihood of having to talk politics all night.  But, since I’m pretty well known as the out-spoken gay conservative/libertarian type, that’s fairly likely any way.  I couldn’t even avoid it the other night when I went to see Avenue Q at TPAC, which was pretty good but not great.

UPDATE:  I bought the button.  $5 to the Obama campaign.  For the next 4 years you can cuss my name, since his ascendency to the throne will be my fault.

Don’t like the way the debate is going?  Just change the definitions!  Liberals have now taught us these new meanings:

Racist: anyone who disagrees with Sen. Obama’s politics, associations or world view.

Elitist: anyone who has and can spend more money than you think they should.

Sorry folks, but a racist is still someone who thinks that people are inferior or superior depending on their race.  An elitist is someone who believes they are better than others based on an attribute they possess such as wealth or intellect.  Note that having a particular attribute, such as wealth or intellect, doesn’t make one an elitist.   Elitism is an attitude that can be achieved regardless of ones actual possessions.

Words have meanings.

Barack Obama accidentally exposes that he is a socialist.  Liberal reaction?  Attack the man who asked the question that Sen. Government was responding to.  I don’t care if Joe the Plumber rapes dead cats while shooting pure heroin into his viens during a seance on the chuch steps.  Joe, himself, isn’t the issue.  The issue is Sen. Obama’s desire to “spread the wealth” by using the power of big government to take from the successful to give to those he considers deserving.

When a liberal uses the word “fairness,” he means bringing everyone, except himself and his cronies, equally under the oppressive fist of government.

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In a 4-3 decision based on the state constitution, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples cannot be denied the right to marry.  Conn. is now the third state with judicially imposed same-sex marriage.  No state has approved same-sex marriage through referendum or the legislative process.

Strategically, using litigation to achieve marriage equality has been a mixed bag.  On the one hand, it has bypassed the democratic process whereby the people or their elected representatives control major policy decisions.  It has, in some cases,  created backlash, causing a number of states to pass anti-same-sex marriage amendments.  On the other hand, it has created some opportunities for Americans to see that allowing two men or two women to marry each other has brought about neither Armageddon nor the end of traditional marriage.

Same-sex marriage is a significant change to a long-standing and dearly held societal institution.  Change of that nature should only be made in a considered and deliberate manner.  We must make the case for marriage equality without reducing it to merely a grab for legal rights.  Those rights, while imminently important, are not what makes marriage.  Marriage is a commitment and a union of two  people together.  It is inherently different from co-habitation or contractual relationships.  Any straight opponent who opposes same sex marriage should ask themselves why they want or wanted to get married.  The same desire for permanence, oneness and togetherness that straight people have also resides in gay people.

Marriage changes things.

Sen. McCain has come up with a bizarre new plan to solve the mortgage crisis.  He wants the government to buy distressed home loans at their face value then pay the difference between a mortgage’s original value and its renegotiated, lower value.  In the debate Tuesday night, he said he would have the government renegotiate the PRINCIPAL on homeowner’s mortgages.  Wow.  Just WOW.  Oddly, Sen. Obama has opposed the new plan.  After supporting the $850,000,000,000 bailout/pork plan, it’s hard to understand exactly what principle he is standing on in that opposition, other than McCain = bad.

Right now, a record number of people owe more on their house than what it is worth.  But, for most people, that problem exists only on paper.  A person not selling their house is unaffected.  Their payments will remain the same regardless of what direction their home value moves.  The upside of that proposition is what many were relying on when they purchased more house than they should have.  Now Sen. McCain wants everyone else to help pay off those individual mortgages?  No.  Life is a risky proposition.  It is not government’s role to force you to protect me from my own gambling losses.

Once again, we see that Sen. McCain is no conservative.

Since I missed Feel Good Friday (Kat Coble had a great choice for that), how ’bout Silly Saturday.  Behold, The Kangaroo Song:

As I’ve said before, Sen. Obama, the man who had said he wasn’t ready to be president, will be the next president of the United States.  That’s depressing.  It’s depressing because the next four years will be a repeat of what was wrong with the last 8 years, times a hundred.  Everything George Bush did wrong domestically, e.g. No Child Left Behind, Medicare Part D, domestic survellence excesses, steel tariffs,  are the antithesis of small government conservatism.  Barack Obama makes no pretense of prefering small government.  Government coercion, regulation, control and big spending are his view of a better America.  Couple that with his long, close association with Americans who hate America and his need to please the rest of the world instead of placing the interests of the United States first and we are faced with a dismal, depressing future.

Tonight, Gov. Sarah Palin had to compete against the perception of her created from the Couric interviews.  In that competition, she won.  Tonight, Sarah was Sarah.  That’s what Republicans and Independents need to see.  The polls over the next 48 hours will move, slightly, in favor of John McCain.

It won’t last.  Sen. McCain is not going to win.  Sen. Obama will be the next president of the United States.