Lifelong Democrat Meryl Yourish is voting for George Bush.
I think Kerry is a liar and a poseur. You cannot have a career of pacifism and voting against military issues and suddenly turn around and declare yourself a fit commander-in-chief. It takes more than a campy salute and a “reporting for duty” at the DNC to make me believe Kerry is fit for command. I believe he is more unfit for command than any other candidate who ran against him, with the possible exception of Howard Dean.
And may I say that the Democratic party may lose me forever if they can’t give me a candidate I can respect and believe in. The Democrats have forced my hand. I was praying for a candidate I could vote for with the confidence that he would continue the war against the fascists who would change our world into one of uncompromising totalitarianism. In the past, I would have voted Democratic regardless – hell, I voted for Walter Mondale – but not today. Today, I think our safety, and the future of our way of life, is in danger. And I don’t think John Kerry gets that.
These were the nails in the coffin for me, when Kerry told the DNC:“Any attack will be met with a swift and certain response.”
That’s not good enough. We are at war now; I don’t want a president who will wait until we are attacked in order to respond. I want the targeted assassinations of terrorists. I want the continued isolation of terrorist nations like Syria and Iran. I want dictators like Muammar Ghadafy to be sweating for their lives and careers. I want someone who is committed to trying to plant the seed of democracy in the Middle East, not someone who thinks that is an impossibility. Kerry has indicated that his Middle East policy will be more of the same, using Clinton’s failed tactics and Clinton’s failed negotiators. That’s not good enough.
For those who wonder (and occassionally ask outright) why I spend so much time following this election – an election outside my own country – I offer the above.
Yesterday, local talk radio host John Gormley was asking callers if they agreed with survey results that indicated a great number of Canadians considered the US election more important than our own. He was incredulous that there were people who thought so.
Ordinarily, I might agree. But these are not ordinary times and this year I hold the election in the US to be more important than any in our own. Why?
Because my country cannot protect me.
How come when I agree with you everyone (almost) I know thinks I’m crazy? The last line hit home.
kate
while i agree with you about the canadian miltitary’s inability to defend us, (just outta curiosity) when was the last time you heard any of the islamofacists screaming “death to canada!”, or plans to bomb saskatoon or kindersley?
angus, there were Canadians killed on 9/11 and in Bali. Even if you could be confident they would never attack Canada directly (which I am not) should we have to seal ourselves within our own borders to feel safe?
And a biological attack in the States could easily lead to an epidemic in Canada. I am personally more scared of smallpox than I am of nukes.
The threat to our way of life isn’t limited to physical attack. A weakened US is a weakened western civilization – and that has implications for our freedom and quality of life that go far beyond crumbled buildings and body counts.
I remember after 9/11 therre being a threat to a number of countries. Canada was #5 on the list.
I find it a odd that a lot of leftie-socialists who think that there is nothing wrong with their government borrowing billions of dollars from Wall Street to keep its crappy little welfare programs going for a little bit longer, also think that an attack on the New York financial community “doesn’t affect them”.
And even if there is never a terrorist attack on Canadian soil, how ’bout that creeping Islamofascism on university campuses and the push to introduce Sharia law? Watch out you don’t miss the Trojan horse for the trees.
That’s the ballgame, folks
John Kerry called George Bush to concede at 11:10am (eastern) today. It’s up in the red bar on CNN too, but with no link. Will you call that a fat lady singing yet, or do you need an aria? p.s….