Undecided Voters, Un-Voters, Please Don't Not Vote

There are many of you. More newly registered voters in my own state are unaffiliated than are affiliated with any single party, Democrat or Republican.

I overheard someone in the store yesterday say "I won't vote for either candidate because whatever happens under either as President, I don't want to be blamed for it."

How selfish, I thought. So if either candidate as President goes down in flames, this person can gloat to whomever, "Well, I didn't vote for him!" This person is "safe" either way.

Is that really a good reason not to vote?

In the many posts I've written, precious little was about John McCain's plusses. 99.9% of it was warning after warning about Obama's minuses.

McCain wasn't my choice in the primaries, as I've said before. He was too much the non-Republican, too much the "maverick", flouting conservative thinking more often than I cared to witness. That's precisely why I didn't want McCain.

I don't need or want a candidate who voted "90% with George Bush" any more than an Obama supporter does. (By the way, that was debunked long ago by non-McCain supporters including David Brooks of the New York Times, Newsweek's Michael Hirsh, and others [see MISLEADING CLAIM #3]).

But whatever the undecided, unaffiliated voters think, McCain really isn't Bush III. From Iraq, to global warming, to torture, to spending, to energy bills, McCain has bucked against George W. Bush.

Think about it: that is why the major media LOVED John McCain all those years and gave him such loving, lavish attention!

Lastly, if worried about McCain's judgment, for example, from remarks such as "the fundamentals of our economy are strong", you've been duped. ANYONE who knows Economics 101 and 102 (and most of us do not) knows that what he said was actually, factually true. It was spun by Obama and the Democrats. "Fundamentals" in economics are things like unemployment, which is a great deal lower than it was around the time of the Great Depression. If McCain had explained all this at the time he said it, or if the media had bothered to not "sound-bite" out just that one line, the American people would have learned something: that even while fundamentals of economics can be stronger now than at other horrible times in our history, it still hurts at the Main Street level. The remark didn't mean that we don't do anything to try to fix the economy. It meant that we could be a whole lot worse off.

The American media thinks you are all stupid and won't know or understand these simple explanations. Perhaps even John McCain thinks that. Who knows? I do fault him and his handlers for not zapping back at that misrepresentation by Obama and explaining it simply during the three debates when he had the chances.

Clearly Obama never bothered to explain these things to you since it wasn't to his advantage to do so.

Didn't you ever wonder, how many more things did Obama neglect to explain because there weren't to his advantage to do so?

Those are just a couple thoughts I ask the undecideds/unvoters to consider.

And with all that, one final thing:

So in a blaze of glory
He rode out of the west.
No one was ever certain
What it was that he was sayin'
But they loved it when he told them
They were better than the rest.

Some shaky modern saviors
Have now been resurrected.
In all this excitement
You may have been misled.
People want a miracle,
They say oh lord, can't you see us?
We're tryin' to make a livin' down here
And keep the children fed.

The man in the middle would have you think
That you have no other choice
But to wander in the wilderness
Of all the upturned faces.
But if you stop and listen long enough
You will hear your own small voice

We are like sheep without a shepherd
We don't know how to be alone
So we wander 'round this desert
And wind up following the wrong gods home

I do hope we will not follow the "wrong god" home...