Email Subject:"We Gotta RALLY all Repubs and persuade the DEMS, less than 1 week left!!"

This is the SUBJECT-line of the email that hit my inbox 4 days before Election '08.

It appealed to the business-owner in me:

Hi Probal: For your erudition and reminder. You are a business owner, and we create 70 % of all jobs. Obama is no friend to you. Expanded government  doesn't create jobs. Government does NOTHING well!!.  Vote McCain/Palin on Tuesday, Nov. 4. God Bless USA!

And in enclosed an email from one Jerry Molen that said -- in brief:

In the event the junior Senator from Illinois becomes President and especially if the House and Senate are veto proof.

 

1).  Strict new gun laws will be enacted even though he promised he would not.

2).  The phrase 'In God We Trust' will be removed from all currency.

3).  He will back away from his pledge to Israel and leave them to the wolves of Islam.

4).  Hillary Clinton will be named to the Supreme Court.

5).  Tax rates will return to their highest levels in 30 years.

6).  The capital gains tax will be at least double current levels.

7).  Retired Army General Wesley Clark will be named Secretary of Defense.  This is the General who was fired for 'integrity' issues.

8).  The borders will be 'basically open' to all comers ... especially those from the Middle East and South America.

9).  Amnesty will be granted to all illegals now in the U.S. regardless of status or even gang members (MS-13).

10).  The war in Iraq will be brought to an abrupt end and the results will be tragic and the consequences to our military will be devastating.

 

I realize that my predictions may not sit too well with some people and the best we could all hope for is that I am totally wrong.  Any bets?

 

Jerry Molen

 

If you don't want to forward this for fear of offending someone, YOU'RE PART OF THE PROBLEM!

 

It is Time for Americans to Speak up.

I wrote back to the sender:

I am with you when you say "God Bless USA". In all my political emails to you I have said "I am for the United States".

But at the risk of losing your friendship I have not stopped myself from saying McCain does not stand for "Country First". His pick of Sarah Palin is a good political pick -- but surely she is not the "best person" he could find to become the V.P. in this wonderfully talented country of 300 million people. :)

I know politicans have to do "something" to win votes, but Palin is a blatant transgression of the integrity principle (in my private opinion).

But regardless of that, we are not voting for Palin/Biden -- we are voting for McCain/Obama.

There are many good reasons to vote for McCain. And some reasons not to vote for him.

Likewise, there are good reasons to vote for Obama and some good reasons not to vote for him.

There will never be a "perfect" candidate.

In my humble opinion, write-ups such as the enclosed are a great boost for Republicans who are already committed anyway to voting McCain/Palin. But it will not impress Undecided Voters because of the obvious bias of the writer.

If you need to persuade Undecided Voters then you have to start off by acknowledging there is good and bad with both candidates.

If I don't see that tone, I am not impressed. And I doubt if undecided voters are going to be impressed either.