The World Is Too Much With Us Or, "I'm Not Bullish On A Bush Win"

I don't know. I hate to be a naysayer but I'm just not confident that Bush will win in November. As I read the leaves I see too strong a confluence of factors that favor Kerry over Bush. Don't get me wrong; it's not a question of desert. It simply is what it is.

Consider the following:

• Without question the majority of the electorate still receive their news from the "Big Media." This same group invests the talking heads with religious authority. As distressing as it is, I see the reality in my own circles as friends and family invoke Dan Rather or Andy Rooney when "proving" the case against Bush. This is their source of what is "true" in much the same way a Christian views the Bible
• Speaking of the "media", yet another reason is that the Big Media, by and large, have conspired together to mask negative Kerry information. Taken together with my first bullet and what you have is a skewed perspective where Kerry seems like he has no detractions (except for those nasty, hateful, lying 200+ veterans that made the 1 minute ad warning against a Kerry presidency) and Bush seems composed of nothing BUT wrongdoing. "Hey, where WAS Bush in '72? Did you know that John Kerry served in Vietnam? He has Purple Hearts and a Silver Star to prove it!"
• Let's face it, for some reason or another, Bush just does NOT like to come out swinging consistently or energetically. The "new tone" philosophy, if nothing else, has certainly realized a devoted follower in Bush. He seems to be comfortable (even righteously so) to let others frame the debate. This appears to some people that I know as evidence that he knows that he is wrong and has no way of refuting the plain truth
• Also, Bush seems unable to prosecute the rest of this war with the same vigor and purpose that he began the war with. Can SOMEBODY tell me...ANYBODY...tell me why Muqtada al-Sadr is still breathing? (good article on that point here). "Women and children...out of Fallujah! Sergeant, hand me a tactical nuke!" Sigh. But I digress...
• I hate to agree with Michael Moore on just about anything, but...I admit it: I share his opinion of many Americans that they are just plain uninformed, blind and, frankly, stupid. They are sheep. Of course, when I say it, I'm talking about the clowns flocking to Fahrenheit 9/11 and the proud bearers of "Re-defeat Bush in 2004" bumper stickers. There is just no reasoning with these "progressive" Americans
• And that brings me to my final point (and honestly the most important in my opinion)-- This election is a spiritual and hence cultural contest. They all are, in some way, but this one seems more obvious. Look at the hot button issues of the day: abortion, marriage, judges, role of government, welfare and even morality in the public square. If you take the vast majority of serious churchgoers and graph their positions on these issues, you will end up with a bloc of voters that look and think suspiciously much like Bush. The rest look like Kerry. In other words, Bush represents that swath of America composed of traditionally religious people, particularly CHRISTIAN religious people. That means, to the Kerry-ites, he smells like God and nothing sets the latent God-hatred in "Bush is Hitler" bunch ablaze faster than a serious Christian in a position of influence (remember the Ashcroft nomination war?) Like the ancient Hebrew church in the wilderness, I hear the "Bush Lied" crowd shouting, "We will not have this man rule over us!"

If we do have a Bush victory, it will be the Grace of God. The country seems to be in an inevitable slide downward since we cannot muster the will to submit to biblical truth. But even in a Kerry presidency, as bad as that will be for the country, I'm going to pray for faith to believe that "all things work together for the good." So should you.

How about a consistent "choice"?

Why is it that the invariable response from the abortionists when you press them on why abortion should be legal is always "a woman's right to choose"? Actually, the question is really, "why do the abortionists (who are almost always on the Left) use the 'woman's right to choose' argument so inconsistently?

If you doubt that they are inconsistent, apply this simple test. Do a Google search on "pornography women" and see what comes up. You'll be surprised at the number of feminists who suddenly change their "it's her body" mantra when it comes to pornography. Suddenly, the same women who were considered completely capable of making a literally life-or-death decision for another human being become mind-numbed, brainwashed fools, who have been "victimized" by the patriarchal society which views women as objects. Suddenly, the great champions of "a woman's right to choose" become the all-knowing, condescending elite who know better than Dallas-doin'-Debbie what she should do with her own body. While I'm in agreement that pornography is a scourge that I can personally attest to, I find the inconsistency among the Leftist feminist groups angering and hypocritical.

Ultimately, it appears that the Feminist/Leftist drivel about a woman's right has less to do with a woman's real rights and more to do with issuing camoflauge to hide the real agenda: remaking our culture in the image of the Left.