Call to Unite in Support of McCain-Palin Ticket

Gov. Sarah Palin has long been a solid conservative. She gave an outstanding speech at the Republican National Convention and polls show that she won the Vice Presidential debate this past week. She is pro-life without exception and very pro-Second Amendment. She is a devout Christian and supports teaching creationism in schools. She supports abstinence only sex-education. She doesn’t believe in Al Gore’s hot air that global warming is a manmade phenomenon which is refreshing since the evidence indicates that we may have entered a global cooling trend several years ago.

After her son was called to serve in Iraq, Palin asked that graduates of a ministry program at her church pray that troops in Iraq are being sent on a "task that is from God", a remark which religion experts say has been misinterpreted by the liberal media operatives like Charlie Gibson to make it appear that she believes we are fighting a holy war in Iraq, when in fact her statements on the war have been much more questioning until the time McCain picked her to serve as his vice presidential running mate in a brilliant maneuver which has succeeded in uniting the conservative base of the Republican Party behind his candidacy. Palin has since clarified her views on the war by echoing Abraham Lincoln’s time immemorial statement, “let us not pray that God is on our side in a war or any other time, but let us pray that we are on God's side”.

She reportedly served as the Buchanan for President state chairwoman in 1996 and raised money for him and supported him briefly in 1999. During the 2008 presidential primary, she even heaped praises upon the Republican that neoconservative Republicans love to hate--Ron Paul. She did not support McCain in either of his two contested presidential primaries in 2000 or 2008. With that kind of Reaganite conservative record, I feel duty-bound to support the McCain-Palin ticket which I believe alone offers Americans hope for the future.

But as Pat Buchanan has pointed out, she is relatively unschooled in matters of foreign policy opening up the possibility that the neocons will succeed in re-educating her in accordance with their own ideological tenets. I like to believe she is only parroting the McCain line on these and other issues because she has to in order to maximize her presidential prospects for future elections and be in a position to make a difference for the conservative cause if she is elected Vice President—a small difference with McCain at the helm to be sure, but a difference nevertheless and the potential to be elected as President in her own right four to eight years from now and usher in a new era of principled Reagan conservatism which would be a major departure from what we have seen from our leaders in Washington, DC over the past several years.

Since the Republican Party remains the only hope for a return to conservative governance, even the chance that one of our own may be elected Vice President or even President is worth pulling the lever for John McCain in this fall’s election. It is time for conservatives to come home to the GOP and vote Republican in this most crucial election in our lifetime in which the values we hold dear hang by a thread with the frightening specter of Barack Hussein Obama in the White House where he would be in a position to implement an unprecedented assault on our country, our military and our God-given liberties.