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It’s Now or Never (As Roy Orbison Would Say)

Oct 3rd, 2012 by

Well, folks…..tonight it is ‘game on’ in our political world.  That’s right …..the first Presidential candidate debate.  And there is a lot at stake here, and forgive me if I wax dramatic.  All of the House of Representatives are up for grabs, a third of the Senate, and the Presidency.

Make no mistake about this.  This is the most important election in our lifetime.

This election is not about the war, because we have lost that one voluntarily (funny……when we first dropped in on Afghanistan the media kept trying to make that war another Vietnam…..now that it IS a Vietnam….shhhhhhh).  This election is not about the economy though it is a shambles from which we are likely to not recover.  This election is not about abortion, capital punishment, Obamacare, the debt, the deficit.  It is not about the entitlement mentality, because that will never be reversed.  It is not about illegal immigration, it is not about the train wreck of our public education system, it is not about crime. It is not about any of those things.

It is about us.

It is about whether we are a people that want what I listed above.  Do we want to consciously relegate ourselves, as a nation, to a second rate world power?  I mean, we CAN…..we are doing it, but as a people, do we want that?  Do we want to be a people that just accept that we are going to be buried in debt, forever?  Because that is what we are accepting right now.  Are we willing to be a people, a nation, in which almost 50% of us pay no federal income tax, live off of the other 50%?  A nation in which the solution to that imbalance is to merely take more from that 50% that ‘have’?  That’s the nation we are now.  Do we want to be a people under Obamacare…..a system that ensures that, no matter how hard you work in life, your healthcare will be no better than that of the person that doesn’t work at all?  Do we want to be a people, a nation with no borders, no standards of who can be one of us?  I mean, I don’t want to sound arrogant or “uppity”…..but this is the 21st century, and I personally believe that if you want to come here, you should be a refugee or bring something to the party.  I detest abortion……I’ll be honest, I detest the idea but I am not going to make a decision for our nation based on that.

Do we get it?  Am I making my point?  This election is not about any single item, it SHOULD be about one single item….We the People.  Do We want to be a socialist nation?

Many of our people do.  I know people that acknowledge that Obama, Reid and Pelosi, et al, are destroying the fiber of this nation, yet they fully intend on voting for him/ them, again.  And their particular excuses (and that’s what they are….they are not reasons) vary from not being able to vote for a Mormon to conservatives being too far right of center…a point on the dial they cannot see from their precipice on the left.

This election is a referendum on the founding fathers and the genius of their creation….the Constitution.  Do we accept it as valid, or do we reject it outright.  A vote for Obama is a vote to simply relegate the Constitution to the Smithsonian.

This election is about the People we will be.

Posted in Nation, Politics

13 Responses to “It’s Now or Never (As Roy Orbison Would Say)”

  1. John E. says:
    October 3, 2012 at 9:02 am

    http://www.intrade.com/v4/misc/scoreboard/

    You can buy “Romney Wins” right now for $2.66 with a $10.00 payout if Romney does win.

    Buy now before the debate if you think tonight will move things in Romney’s favor.

    • John E. says:
      October 3, 2012 at 10:12 pm

      And now, after the debate, you could sell a “Romney Wins” for $3.20

      You’d be ‘up’ 54 cents

  2. steve2 says:
    October 3, 2012 at 9:26 am

    I am older than you, so I have more elections in my lifetime. I think the 1960 election was more important as we were facing major Cold War issues and we were losing Ike. The economy was also kind of sucky. he 1968 and 1972 elections were more important because of Vietnam and its aftermath. You could sort of make a case about 2008, but a party that screws the economy and gets you into two poorly managed wars is going to lose, so the outcome was not in much doubt.

    Steve

    • John E. says:
      October 3, 2012 at 9:45 am

      I’ve noticed that each election for the past twenty-odd years have been billed as “The Most Important Election EVER!”

      Surely they all can’t be the most important one ever…

      • Karen Street says:
        October 3, 2012 at 11:31 pm

        There’s that. But there’s also that the most conservative D in the Senate, for perhaps the first time, is to the left of the most liberal R. So the parties are actually further apart now than they have been since 1900 or so. On the other hand, commentators are promising a civil war on the R team no matter who wins.

  3. steve2 says:
    October 3, 2012 at 9:28 am

    “This election is a referendum on the founding fathers and the genius of their creation….the Constitution.”

    Excellent! We are going back to slavery, women not voting and corporations will be charters handed out to their political buddies. Cant wait.

    Steve

  4. H. M. Stuart says:
    October 3, 2012 at 6:29 pm

    While all presidential elections are the most important ones – otherwise we would neither need nor have them – this is the sort of thing which makes the current one a bit more compelling to me. Against all past promises by the candidate, we somehow find ourselves encumbered with, to mix languages, a petit-generalissimo, a self-appointed capo di tutti capi offering protection:

    This week, sequestration made headlines again, as Lockheed Martin announced its intention to fall in line with the executive branch’s astonishing request that defense contractors wilfully violate the WARN Act. Per its declaration, the firm will defer sending layoff notices made necessary by the sequestration law; and in return they will receive immunity from the consequences, along with a promise that any fines will be picked up by Uncle Sam. [emphasis - HMS] This morning, I spoke to Senator Lindsey Graham about the development.

    Graham is deeply concerned about the move, and about the lack of attention it is receiving — within and without Congress. The manouvre is “incredibly disturbing,” he told me. How disturbing? “It is exhibit A in the march toward an imperial presidency.” The “statute is clear,” Graham continued, “the WARN Act is the law of the land.” Here, “we have a White House saying, ‘we don’t care what the law we signed says.’” The OMB analysis — which holds that as the law might change, there is no need for businesses to comply with it — is “absurd on its face,” the senator told me, and the Department of Labor’s advisory opinion “a political move.” It is “patently illegal for the federal government to absorb the financial cost of a private company for not following the law. Never have we put the taxpayer on the hook for a private company failing to follow the law.”

    Graham wondered aloud, “why are Democrats are not upset about the precedent? This has implications beyond this election cycle.” What implications?, I queried. “Imagine if a Republican president said that, because his proposed tax cuts were likely to become law, there was no need for the existing rates to be paid.” What we have here, I suggested, is the government instructing people to violate the law, and offering to mitigate the consequences. “Yes,” Graham agreed. “It’s crazy legal analysis. We are in danger of being no longer a rule of law nation. It’s a mini-coup.” I asked how this compared to June’s unilateral imposition of the DREAM Act? “This takes the DREAM Act instinct to a new level,” the senator told me. “That was a bastardization of the law — interpreting the law outside of its intent — but this is more dangerous as it ignores what the statute actually says.”

    H. M. Stuart
    Alexandria

  5. steve2 says:
    October 3, 2012 at 7:09 pm

    http://books.simonandschuster.com/Founders/James-Wesley-Rawles/9781439172827

  6. DADvocate says:
    October 3, 2012 at 11:36 pm

    I don’t watch debates or listen to/watch speeches and didn’t tonight, but from what I read – it’s now.

  7. H. M. Stuart says:
    October 3, 2012 at 11:56 pm

    From having watched tonight’s debate:

    - Romney very much wants to be President and did his debate homework tonight.

    - Obama wants to have been President – that always spiffs up a resume – but the particulars of actually being President – having to debate, having to deal with others, particularly politicians – consistently seem to annoy him.

    Where Romney relished being at the debate tonight, Obama deigned to be there, reluctantly.

    There’s no way to know until he is, if he is, whether Romney would be better or worse than Obama as President, but there is no doubt whatsoever that he is more dedicated right now to taking full charge of all of the particulars required to be President than Obama ever has been.

    H. M. Stuart
    Alexandria

  8. WiredSisters says:
    October 7, 2012 at 5:27 pm

    I went to considerable effort to avoid watching The Debate. Had I known Roy Orbison was on the agenda, I would have tuned him in.