Soccer Mom: Unplugged

The NC GOP has produced an ad highlighting the extremism of Jeremiah Wright, pastor and friend of presidential hopeful Barack Obama.  This ad references the endorsements of Obama by some of the state's gubernatorial candidates and the implication is that the candidates, local and national, have questionable judgement and perhaps less than stalwart patriotism.  Fair enough. 

We all recognize that a candidate's personal life gives just as much insight, if not more, into his character as his official actions and statements.  Remember the frenzy over Hillary Clinton's channeling the spirits of past first ladies or the front page fear-mongering when newsmen found out that President Buch read Tim LaHaye's Left Behind series?  The fascination with stories like these reveal a truth most of us unconsciously know but that democratic operatives spent most of the 90s trying to deny:  a man's private character and morality are inseparably connected to the execution of his professional duties.  Patriotism, integrity, and decency aren't like a suit coat you can put on when you walk out the door in the morning.

Nevertheless, John McCain has called for the NC GOP to abandon the as-yet unreleased ad and has denounced the state party as 'out of touch'.  Judging from other recent statements, McCain believes he is trying to take the "high road" by avoiding personal attacks on his opponents.  Unfortunately, McCain's denunciation reveals as much about himself as the ad does about the democrats vying for the NC governorship.

It is completely reasonable to find the judgement of a candidate suspect based on his associations.  it is also perfectly reasonable to find the judgement of a candidate suspect if he or she endorses a presidential hopeful whose associates are unpatriotic, conspiracy theory spewing pastors and unrepentant domestic terrorists.

Further, it is completely reasonable to find the judgement of a candidate suspect if he denouces state party leaders for political correctness and expediency.  John McCain cares about winning the Presidency - the NC GOP wants to win the governor's seat.  It would seem that Linda Daves knows what I know.  No matter whose inaugaration we see in January, we've already lost the White House.

According to presidential hopeful, Barack Hussein Obama, we backwoods believers, desperately clinging to the right to own a Smith & Wesson are doing so because we're out of work.  That's why we're against illegal immigration and gay marriage, too.  The point, easily extrapolated from Obama's comments to a crowd of sycophants in San Francisco, is that when poor folk lose a job they get bitter and use God, guns, and bigotry as therapeutic outlets. 

Clearly, this suggests that successful people with money and upward mobility don't need guns, God, or closed borders. 

His exact words: "You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them, and they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

Couldn't be the steady attack on their beliefs and their rights that's got 'em down, could it Barack?  Couldn't possibly be the daily redistribution of their wealth through an overgrown tax system that doles out free cash to Jerry Springer guests while leaving the working poor, well, POOR.  It would be silly to think they are upset about the erosion of their culture through the reeducation of their children, the rewriting of their history, and the invasion of undocumented job-seekers and even legal immigrants whose refusal to assimilate burdens an already behemoth government bureaucracy and requires even more funds from our pockets to pay for bilingual services.  Press uno para Espanol, Barack.

Nope - sad, mindless proles, they just need boots, a nine-to-five, and a controlling party to keep 'em occupied with state sponsored lotteries and sour smelling beer. 

Backthink life preAmersoc, preunGod... (Remember life before American socialism, before God died...) 

yeah... me, too.