Adam Lawson

McCain-Palin

… Wow.

I considered Palin one of the few choices that would excite me — Palin, Jindal, a few others.  But mostly Palin and Jindal.   This is one of the best possible choices, whereas Biden was one of the worst (in my opinion), and it’ll unite the base behind McCain.  It might also peel off some Hillary supporters.

This is horribly not-PC, but, I want this bumper sticker.

In seriousness, I am very exciting by this choice.  I’ve been very “blah” about politics since it got narrowed down to McCain, Huckabee, and Romney.  The only thing to really excite me since then was the talk about Bobby Jindal.  This is just huge.

Another point for McCain

Issues of the day aside, this made me like McCain just a tad more than I already did: Reid can’t stand McCain.

Seriously, coming from Drowsy Harry Reid, that’s a ringing character endorsement.  There are few politicians I like less than Harry Reid — DiFi, Pelosi, Obama. I already know they don’t like McCain.  This is just like the icing on the cake.

Strategic Oil Reserve

There’s no other way to say this, so excuse my language:  Nancy Pelosi is a fucking idiot, or she thinks the American people are.

I’ve heard her mention on at least two occasions part of her stupid little plan:  Use the strategic oil reserve to lower prices.

Now, for those of you who aren’t aware, the SOR is about six months worth of oil for the United States — probably less, actually, as the numbers I have are old.  Basically, it’s enough oil to keep us going for at most 180 days.  At most.  It’s not there to be a way around producing more oil; it’s for a real emergency, like maybe OPEC deciding to cut off all shipments or something catastrophic.  So what she’s talking about doing is, in essence, fixing gas prices by a small amount, temporarily.

It only works once, and it leaves us without our security blanket.

It leaves us vulnerable to any real disaster oil prices.  It leaves us even more vulnerable to the foreign hands that control a majority of our oil.  And this crazy bitch thinks that using it is a good idea.  It works once, Nancy.  Then we’re screwed.  If it lasts six months, then in six months not only will we need to refill the strategic reserve, but we’ll be trying to buy our oil in a market with the same supply as today.  Tell me why that’s a good idea, again?

Seriously:  Pelosi is an idiot.  She just is.  She’s the dumbest person in a leadership position in this country, and she’s currently third in line for the presidency.  And she’s so catastrophically stupid that she doesn’t understand simple supply issues or what a real emergency is.  She’s refusing to allow for a vote on drilling because she wants to use, as she puts it, “our oil.”  Well listen, lady, a majority of the country wants to drill for more of “our oil.”  Because there’s no reason that we should have to suffer so you can “save the planet.”

How about you preach about other countries that subsidize the cost of gas (China, Venezuela) in order to grow and pollute more?  Why are we expected to bear the burden of saving the planet?  This is why I didn’t like Kyoto and other stupid environmentalist plans — they all seem aimed at punishing us for our successes.   Just like that elitist, yes even uppity, Obama with his “we may not be able to… eat as much as we want.”

Listen, fuck all of you and your do-nothing, no-production-just-conservation bullshit.  We’re not going to conserve our way out of this.

Drill now.  If we’d drilled twenty years ago, then we wouldn’t be in this situation.  But we let the Democrats and their Planeteers get us into this mess then by remaining dependent on foreign oil.  Why the fuck should we listen to them again?

See, He Told Us So

Before the 2006 elections, Rush Limbaugh made a prediction.  He said that if the people did what the polls indicated and ditched the Republican majority, then after two years of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, we’d end up with a moderate like John McCain as our nominee.  Because we’d be so desperate to balance them out that we’d pick someone to appeal to the middle. And here we are, two years later — after two years of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, we nominated a moderate like John McCain, in the form of, er, John McCain.

I’ve been a Rush Limbaugh listener for a very, very long time.  My mom started watching his show back when he had a half hour on some Fox affiliates five nights a week.  This was a time after Bill Clinton took office. I distinctly remember his countdown to the next election; “America Held Hostage.”  I remember him showing Clinton get busted at some funeral — walking with some guy and telling a joke, laughing, until he saw the cameras and then the big bottom lip came out so he could look sad.   So I was exposed to Limbaugh at a young age — I think I was ten or eleven.

After his television show ended, I occasionally caught his radio show, but I was ten or eleven — listening to some guy talk about politics on crappy AM radio wasn’t high on my priorities list, especially given the time of day when his show is played (11AM-2PM local time).  After I started college, however, I began to listen to him regularly.  I’d play him on the way to, or back from, classes if I was driving during his time slot.  Then I bought a 24-7 membership so I can stream him live from my computer, or download the mp3s of his show and listen at my own time — generally on the long drive to and from a night class.

I don’t always agree with Rush politically — I’m not a zombie.  There’s no one I really agree with 100% of the time on anything, be it politics or video games.  But there’s something comforting about his radio presence, his voice, and even the theme music that opens his show.  He can be entertaining talking about cigars and HDTV, football and iphones — things I’m not personally all that into.  But he’s just got this charisma, this voice.  Even when times are bad for those that share my political views, he’s there — the lighthouse showing us our way.

Rush Limbaugh has probably been one of the most important influences on my life that I do not know personally. Liberals can screech and hollar about him all they want, point to his drug problems, and cry about how it’s just not fair that there’s not a liberal answer to him on the radio all they want.  But he means a lot to a great deal of people, and he’s meant so much for this country over the last twenty years.  You talk for three hours a day, five days a week, over the course of twenty years and see if you don’t step on some toes (minus various days off).

One great thing about Rush — he makes all the right people angry.   So here’s to twenty more years of making the left squirm!