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In just a couple days we’ll be celebrating the fact that 232 years ago a band of brave men pledged their “lives, fortunes and their sacred honor” to declaring the 13 north American British colonies to be independent from England.  They said “No!” to the stamp act, “No!” to the Tea Act,  “No!” to the quartering act, etc.  They didn’t “choose the lesser of two evils” – they said “Give me liberty, or give me death!” and then picked up their muskets and marched into battle.

Now, 232 years later, we’re being told “It doesn’t matter that John McCain was one of the Keating Five, nor does it matter that his name is part of the McCain-Feingold or the McCain-Kennedy pieces of foul legislation, it matters only that he’s the Republican candidate and we’ve got to get behind him or lose to the Democrats.”  Uh, I beg your pardon, but since WHEN does putting a Republican into office constitute voting for freedom?  Under our latest Republican President we got “The Patriot Act” and “Department of Homeland Security” and the joy of removing our shoes in the airport and being scrutinized and humiliated by government minions when we wish to travel by air.  Yes, it’s all about “the war on terror” and “we’ve not been hit again since 2001″ but we HAVE paid – with our freedoms.  Once more our freedom is taken away “to make us safe” – thus giving victory to those who would destroy our freedom via terrorism, we’ve given them victory by surrendering our nation’s freedom in the name of “safety” – while refusing to act against those who are REAL threats as we allow non-threats to be harassed in the name of “security”.

Also, once more we are being rallied to the support of the GOP – the very group that is sponsoring the AWB Version 2 (Assault Weapons Ban) – that’s right, the very ones who are saying “you’ve GOT to get behind McCain” are the ones who are pushing for a new (and worsened) version of the failed Clinton Assault Weapons Ban.  I feel like I’m living in some “Wonderland” such as Alice fell into.  Or, worse yet, like “1984″ is coming to life twenty four years later.  We now have “double speak” as the national language, apparently.  “Conservative” now means new bans on freedom and new assaults on our resources.  The only (slight) comfort one can get is that “Liberal” is MUCH worse, sliding into the deepest recesses of Marxist/Leninist doctrine – but the so-called “Conservatives” are little better any more.

And there’s a growing rallying cry of “No MORE!” when it comes to those who would pull the wool over our eyes once more.  It will be interesting to see what transpires in November.  Interesting in the same way that seeing an out of control cruise ship come steaming into a crowded harbor and crashing through the pier is “interesting” – a sense of horror and impotence sets in as one realizes that there’s nothing one can do as the captain obliviously allows the ship to steam to its destruction – this is the feeling I get as I see the GOP once more steaming powerfully forward – in the wrong direction.

And many will say “Vote for McCain or you’re voting for Obama.” No, no matter how I vote I vote my conscience.  And if I vote for a third party it will NOT be for Obama – it will be for the candidate for whom I’m voting.  The guilt trip should be laid upon those who are responsible for drumming up support for such a leftist candidate as John McCain is.  There are good men yet in the nation, I’m sure of it.  So why are we supposed to be getting behind someone who has proven time after time that he leans farther left than many Democrats (some southern Democrats are more conservative in their values and voting than their Republican couterparts)?  Just because of a party name?  What’s in a name? A marxist by any other name smells just as bad to a freedom loving person.

Two hundred and thirty two years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence – and what have we done to our country?  Will we allow her to slide ever deeper into the socialist mire that is sucking her freedom dry?  Well, time will tell.  Many of us will NOT vote for those who drag us in that direction.  And we will NOT be to blame for the sinking of the ship.  Those who ignore our calls of “Wrong direction, wrong director!” and insist on following the pied piper of ever increasing socialization of the nation are the ones to blame.  Give us a candidate who sings the old song of freedom and liberty and you’ll see supporters crawling from the woodwork all around.  But don’t expect those who think for themselves and who refuse to get on board a ship bound for destruction just because “at least it’ll crash later than the other choice” to rally around a RINO who has proven himself to be an enemy of our nations ancient values.  To paraphrase what the man said, “Being shot down and spending years as a POW does not necessarily qualify a person to be President of the United States.”