Archive for November 3rd, 2008

We Republicans have been dealing with a lot of difficult situations over the last few weeks (or a couple of years, really). Heading into tomorrow, if we are to believe the polls, we are in for a long day. But it is difficult to know what will really happen. There are many questions as to the validity of the polls; what direction the support is breaking; and who these undecided voters are and who they will be voting for.

Since we do not know what will happen, my encouragement to Republicans is to get out and vote. Be bold. Support who you believe will do the best for our country. I leave you with a quote from Winston Churchill in the dark days of 1941 (via RedState):

You cannot tell from appearances how things will go. Sometimes imagination makes things out far worse than they are; yet without imagination not much can be done.

Those people who are imaginative see many more dangers than perhaps exist; certainly many more than will happen; but then they must also pray to be given that extra courage to carry this far-reaching imagination.

But for everyone, surely, what we have gone through in this period …this is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never-in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Very late in the game, the Alaska Personnel Board investigator has released his report clearing Governor Palin of violating any ethics rules in the “reassignment” (leading to him quiting) of the Public Safety Commissioner Monegan.

The story is fairly complicated with enemies of the Governor involved in the initial investigation. This should be the report that is relevant. It is a shame that it did not come out earlier, but at least they got it put out prior to the actual election.

If it matters to your vote tomorrow, head over to RedState and read an excellent review of the reports and the entire situation. It appears to me to be a thorough review of the situation.

Not my words, but the words of Democrat New York Congressman Jerry Nadler.

The follow up questions by the constituents is valid, such as if Obama didn’t have the political courage to leave his church, how could he have the courage to stand up to our enemies.

Simple question.  Deserves and honest answer.

(H/T - Red State)

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I was going to type up a lengthy closing argument for as to why I am voting for John McCain. I may still do so. But it would be hard to encapsulate those reasons better than Jay Nordlinger has done with this short post over at The Corner:

There are a lot of people who didn’t like Edmund Morris’s biography of Reagan, which was authorized — they said it was a failure, or at least a missed opportunity. I don’t know. I didn’t read it. But I do know this: Morris had one insight into Reagan, and it was perfectly observed.

Reagan spent his entire life standing up to the bully. From boyhood on, he interposed himself between the bully and the innocent. He stood up to the bullies in his schools. He stood up to the Communists in Hollywood, and to the coercive unions. He stood up to the student radicals and their abettors. He stood up to the Soviets.

He simply stood up.

In the world today are a lot of bullies to stand up to: al-Qaeda, the mullahs, the North Koreans, the Chinese Communists, the Castro brothers, Chávez. John McCain will almost certainly do it. Barack Obama will almost certainly not.

That’s one reason — probably the biggest reason — I’m voting for McCain on Tuesday.

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Because the dollar amount keeps getting lower.

(H/T - Hoosierpundit)