It was as recently as a week ago that Mitt Romney seemed the sure winner in Florida. Governor Charlie Crist's endorsement changed all that.
Yet, even before the Crist endorsement, John McCain had already taken the lead in a host of Super Tuesday polls and a sense of inevitability was beginning to creep into this race. My sense (and that of many others I spoke to) was that Romney needed to win big in Florida to even have a chance at slowing McCain's momentum.
Now that John McCain has won Florida, this race is pretty much over. John McCain will be the Republican Presidential nominee. He was not the best of the 10 the initially got in.....but he certainly wasn't the worst either. I'd have to put him 4th behind Gilmore, Thompson and Hunter, in terms of who best matched my ideology.
Although I have sometimes drifted into incendiary rhetoric,specifically designed to inflame the passions of the mentally unstable (everyone has a guilty pleasure), my life has always been one led by the search for truth and the desire to do what is right.
I have agonized over this nomination process and have sometimes wondered if the best moral course would be to stay home. Sometimes, a Babylonian exile for the GOP is the best cure for what ails them. Nevertheless, I am at peace with the decision that my party has done good work and have made a sober, deliberated judgement on who is best suited to take on the democrats and serve as our 44th President.
John McCain is on the brink of being our nominee and he deserves our support. He is a decent man driven by principle. He has, on occasion, been woefully wrong and had to have his wrist slapped. Amnesty is the latest example that comes to my mind.
In the end, we are of one mind on two of the most essential issues of our time. The sanctity of human life and the need to be aggressive in our fight against an insidious and barbaric enemy are two bedrock principles from which McCain has never wavered.
McCain was calling for the surge before it even had a name. Now, only the very most rabid fool could deny it's success.
Will we have disagreements in the future? I'm sure we will. In those times, we conservatives must rise up and make our voices heard.
Nevertheless, let's leave pessimism to the freaks, liars and pansies of the anti-war movement and the Democratic party- they are much better at it than us. Ours has always been the party of true compassion and the party of hope. The democrats look upon their constituents as a path to power. The Republicans look at ways to empower theirs. While the Democrats look at ways to throw another bone down to the man stuck in the hole, The GOP wants to get him a ladder.
It springs from a different view of the dignity of the human person. Liberal elitist narcissists could give less than a damn about humanity. All they care about is being in power. To be a Conservative, you have to be a human being first.
John McCain is a good person and I think he will make a good President. A Newt One is proud to formally endorse John McCain to be the 44th President of the United States.
~Sonlit |