A Spoonful Of Sugar
Deborah Venable
09/10/08
Both
major party conventions are over now, and what grand shows they turned out to
be. All the players did their parts and
said all their lines without a hitch. Everyone’s
“base” is energized and the campaigns that started too long ago are finally
winding into the homestretch. The
American political extravaganza never ceases to amaze.
The
industry of political campaigning is huge and growing by leaps and bounds. Political office in today’s world is
lucrative, and getting there is expensive.
Because money plays such a large part in our political process, it is no
wonder that average people are finding it harder and harder to trust government
or politicians of any stripe. It also
explains why most who decide to vie for political office are not statesmen, but
rather ladder climbers in a contest of career building – or just downright
power hungry egomaniacs.
Few
senators have ever been elected to the presidency of the United States, yet
this time around that is the only choice we have. A senator will become our 44th president.
John
McCain has been a tough pill for a lot of conservatives to swallow. Thank God he finally managed to offer up a
spoonful of sugar to help it go down.
While I believe in large part that McCain fits my aforementioned
description of the modern typical politician, Sarah Palin obviously does
not. I think she is exactly what we
need “a heartbeat away” from the most powerful person on earth.
Do
I know the governor personally? No, I
do not. But I know her type. I and many other American women identify
with her type because we see a lot of ourselves in her. If we have been professionally successful,
we know that has been due to our own efforts and not because we hit all the
right rungs (or bedrooms) on some corporate ladder. If we have happy families, we know how much effort and sacrifice
has been required to secure them, and we know that those families have always
been our first priority. If we have
faithful husbands, we know that our good relationships grew out of mutual
respect shared with our spouses for the individuals we are and not because of a
collective entitlement we expected.
I
personally identify with Sarah Palin’s love and respect for “roughing it” in
the wild outdoors. I’ve been hunting
and fishing all my life, and the “fruits” of those trips have graced my
family’s table many, many times. Haven’t
made it up to Alaska to hunt moose yet, but I’ll bet it’s a real trip!
Above
all, Sarah Palin’s most endearing quality to me is her absolute support for the
right to life. She not only spoke up,
but she acted out her beliefs in that respect.
As a mother of five children myself, I understand exactly what it is
like to be encouraged to abort a child.
It happened to me four out of my five pregnancies! As I have said before, the most shameful
thing in America’s history happened in 1973 when legislation from the bench of
our highest court made destruction and desecration of the most innocent life on
earth legal. From that point on, those
of us who believe in the sanctity of human life have been fighting for the
return of sanity to our country that was founded on the concepts of an unalienable
right to life above all else.
I
believe that the McCain – Palin ticket will not place judges on the Supreme
Court who have pledged to support a woman’s “right to choose” above an innocent
human baby’s right to live. I know that
the Obama – Biden ticket will.
I
believe that for all his faults, John McCain understands his country at the
very least, and knows the dangers we face.
I don’t believe that Barack Obama understands or appreciates America for
the good that we are nor values us enough to lay down his life or fortunes to
save us from our many foes.
I
believe that McCain and Palin have strong credentials that suggest their
economic policies will strengthen and not weaken America. I know that Obama and Biden would run the
economy into the ground and feed the behemoth that is fast becoming a
socialist/communist form of government.
So,
while many conservative voters will sit on their hands (or laurels) this
November or throw their votes away on impossible choices, I must and I will
vote for this Republican ticket. The
spoonful of sugar will indeed help the medicine go down, but it is, after all,
lifesaving medicine.