To borrow a phrase from McCain: I would rather lose an election than vote for someone like McCain with his crooked straight talk. I will not go into all the programs that he colluded with the Democrats on to further the Democratic agenda to the detriment of the Republican principals, but there are dozens of them. I will not vote for someone who talks out of both sides of his mouth like Bill Clinton. I can just see McCain considering what the meaning of is is, at the same time saying “I was the only one to support the surge.” I guess he thinks all the rest of us out here who supported Bush in that endeavor mean nothing.

He has gotten a lot of endorsements from the old guard: Phil Gramm and Jack Kemp, looking to be Secretary of Treasury and financial advisers to McCain to push their programs and remain in the public eye. Ted Olson wants to be on the Supreme Court. Egos are guiding the endorsements and the old guard just doesn’t want to go away and fade into the sunset. Until they do, the future remains somewhere in the future.

Now to go from a bad politician to a vicious, anti-American group called Code Pink. Where they get their funding from is a question that needs to be asked - also how many of these traitors are on welfare or receiving some kind of government handouts? The city of Berkley receives government funds; Berkley College receives government funds. Why does the government and its agents, Senators, and members of Congress allow any funds to flow to terrorist organizations such as Code Pink, Berkley, and Berkley College? All the current Presidential candidates should be asked about the Code Pink fiasco and be forced to give an opinion before the election.

Mexico - a blight on American Democracy, sending their people here to send money back to keep their government afloat. They are up-in-arms about us closing the border and make no effort to contain their own people, which consist of drug smugglers, felons, coyote people smugglers, gang members, and other low-lives. Now they are complaining that the border agents use tear gas against Mexicans throwing rocks at them at the border. As far as I am concerned, they should have used rubber bullets or real bullets. Mexico has been afforded too much courtesy and consideration by the U.S. government and the Bush administration. McCain is worse than Bush on immigration and will place the final knife in the Republican party if he is elected.

Now let’s talk about lies and chicanery by Presidential candidates. There is one master of this, and he is a master because the media has made him into an honest icon - NOT SO! His lie against Romney in Florida was successful and points out the way that lies can be used to advantage if you have no principals. I guess no one recalls the dirty tricks used in Michigan in 2000, which were one of the worst items in a dishonest politician’s quiver, and that was use of religion to separate people, as Huckabee has done. All the media remembers is South Carolina and McCain accusing the Bush campaign of something they didn’t do.

After his loss, he worked with Feingold to take away free speech from groups or people who might disagree with a Presidential candidate as the election comes close. McCain has many other arrows in his quiver to spread lies about his opponents, whoever they may be, as it becomes necessary. How he has managed to keep himself considered a man of integrity after his antics in the Senate, especially since he lost his bid to become the Presidential nominee in 2000, never ceases to amaze me.

Huckabee allowing himself to be used as a stalking horse for McCain belies all his statements about his honesty and integrity. I think he is hoping to become the Vice Presidential candidate with McCain. Should this happen, it will be the death knell for the Republican party and I will be searching for a third party.

I can just imagine a McCain administration being run by the old guard, rallying around him, using him to be a bully in the bull pit to guide the American people in a certain direction, not necessarily the best thing for our country and our country’s future. The insiders in Washington are so afraid of an outsider coming in and changing how they have been doing business all these years, that they will endorse anyone who helps to continue the same old boy kind of politics. Some day there will be a purge of the old boys and the country will be able to leap into the future, finally.

I guess I should feel out of place, being out of the herd, but I have never wanted to be a member of the thundering herd, especially when, as of now, the thundering herd is going to stampede over a cliff. I know it is a forlorn hope, but I still hope that the Conservative voters will WAKE UP. If they don’t, they will live in a nightmare of politics as it exists now.

May God continue to bless the USA.