What a week (ho, hum, howdy)

You know, I’m not going to come here and talk about the same old things, column after column.

Obama, what are you gonna say about this…broken record?  King of the flip flop?  Mr. Rope-a-dope?

Now that he realizes 75% of the country is serious about drilling, he’s reversing his stance.

Like a rock star who hides behind his body guards, Senator Obama has made it clear that he will not come out and debate Senator McCain.

McCain, literally, has Obama on the ropes, and Obama just keeps rolling on the them.

He’s rolled on the war (now suddenly he is no longer a pacifist).

He’s rolled on the economy (oh, we won’t tax you to death and beyond).

He’s rolled on offshore drilling.

The way this guy keeps rolling, America will wind up rolling right along with him…rolling right down the tubes.

His whorlwind world tour was designed to show a bunch of socialist foreigners that he cares what they think.

Now he is over here trying to reassure the conservative thought process (drill, stop the taxes, limit the government) – now he is trying to show that he is one of us.

He can’t have it both ways.  Sometimes you have to get off your fence and show your true colors.

The problem with Obama, I think, is that he himself does not even know his true colors.  Nobody knows what he is for, and no one is really sure what he has been for in the past.

Of one thing we can be certain…his history as a Senator demonstrates that he votes consistent with liberal philosophy.

Well hello Michael Moore and Madonna!  When you are down and troubled, you got a friend in Obama.

As a staunch conservative, I was a bit disappointed that “my boys” lost to McCain; now that I see McCain (I would say illuminated by Obama, but in Obama I can only see darkness) – but now that I see him in comparison to Obama – man, he looks like John Wayne.

So here is the deal…I’m not compromising in my vote for McCain…not picking the lesser of two evils.

What I am doing is seeing the true conservative in McCain, in some of McCain’s policies.  It is not rationalizing, but rather, picking my battles.

I know he is not the perfect conservative, but I ask you, where is Churchill in America today?  Where is Goldwater?

They are not found in Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity or even Rush Limbaugh.  These guys are not in the arena, they are on the sidelines.  Good commentators, but they are only ringside.

The men in the ring, the men in the arena…the gladiators – there I see very little of what resembles Conservative’s core.

So you see, it comes down to some degree of acceptance…with a commitment to never give up on your core beliefs.  You take what ground you can gain.

There is in no doubt a pall that rises and shadows when one considers the potential ramifications of a victory for either candidate.  There will be a lot of hurt feelings, either way.

But one thing is clear; we know for certain what we are getting with John McCain.

With Obama, we are only getting a dope on a rope.

100 days, 100 memories, 100 years

Ain’t war a bitch?

I know.  My Mother taught me it is wrong to use that word.  But my daddy, well he was a hunter, once.  He said it is a real word and describes something real, a female dog.  I’ve heard them use it on that dad-gum kennel show on the T.V.

So I figure it is proper to use it when describing war.  Truly, I can think of nothing more apropos.

So, Hillary says it is a bad thing to stay in Iraq for 100 years.

It’s funny how all of a sudden we are having to delineate (subtly delineate) between the choices we have.

For example, the bailout of Bear-Stearns is different that bailing out all us homeowners who are swamped by monthly mortgage payments. The one could wreck the whole economy, and the other, well, only our personal economies.  Bye-bye six pack.

Well, I first learned about economies of scale way back in college (thanks Professor Spifey)…

Econ, 101.

Reminds me of the butterfly effect, only Bear-Stearns is one massive butterfly.

Kinda like Iraq.

The mid-East has been a thorn in the side of the West since before I was born.  It is an horrendous mess.

Whether we like it or not, we are up to our eyeballs in it.  Now, there are those who say “By God, drop the frickin’ A-Bomb on them.  Make the sands into glass.  Turn it into a parking lot”.

Well, I am old enough to remember the Christmas bombings in Nam.  They didn’t achieve jack-squat.

Mega-tonnage dropped, and still the yellow man scampered out of his mole-holes.

Senator McCain, I whole-heartedly agree with you on this one.  We very well might be there for one-HUNDRED years…it’s conceivable.  Hell, we keep it up, we very well might be in KO-rea for 100 years.

Fact is, we are a responsible nation (sort of)…we do our best to honor our obligations that we have made to our neighbors, and more importantly, to our fellows in treaty.

When we make war on a Nation, we absolutely must make good on the Peace.  The alternative is eternal war (which, I know, is exactly what the wahabbists would love).

It is unrealistic to think that Senator Clinton’s plan would possibly work.  What is her plan anyway?  She says we can’t stay there, so we pull the troops home.  Then what?

Has she moved the next chess piece?  Has Obama?

Give me a break.  These people only respond to polls put out by rooks.

Knaves!

In order to win the game and achieve a “stasis of peace”, one has to think five moves down the board.

They are only seeing what is right in front of their faces (and that, victory in this horserace).

McCain is actually thinking ahead.

He’s the only one right now who looks Presidential.

Keep up the smooth moves, and you won’t go wrong, Mr. Senator!