McCain – The GOP Sacrifical Lamb

First, let me say I don’t believe in conspiracies for the most part. I believe nine time out of ten, what you see is what you get. But I have been formulating some ideas lately on how and why this presidential election has gotten to be what it is.

I believe that John McCain is our Republican candidate because the GOP wanted a liberal republican that they could throw to the wolves. I have often wondered why the most promising of GOP candidates all simultaneously pulled out of the primary. Especially since at the time, it didn’t appear that John McCain would even come close to winning the nomination. I believe that the GOP knew that with President Bush’s dismal approval ratings, this nation would not, no matter who the candidate was, elect a Republican as our next President. That being the case, let’s give the American people a candidate that has been a thorn in our side for years, a Republican who is much too liberal for the rest of us. After this, hopefully he will go away. Then, after the country has had four years of screw ups by the Democrats, they will have a free ride in the next election. How do they know there will be four years of screw ups? Because the American people are probably going elect someone who doesn’t have a military clue, Barack Obama. I believe the GOP knows that the screw-ups are coming and they are just going to bide their time for the next four years and wait and watch for the self destruction to occur. It’s inevitable. Not to mention that troublesome John McCain is the sacrificial lamb in this whole mess and they can be rid of him once and for all.

I hope I’m wrong and  that the next four years will be all lollipops and ice cream for everyone under the Democratic reign but somehow, after watching presidents come and go for nearly half a century I don’t quite believe that.  I hope my husband will still have a job after the government starts taxing the crap out of the corporation he works for, that my son will have a job waiting for him when he graduates college in three years, that all the terrorists that hate us have gone away and everybody in the entire world loves my good old U. S. of A., that there is oil aplenty at $50.00 a barrel and all my mutual funds and stocks are skyrocketing to lovely new heights.  If so, the drinks are on me.

Yes, I may be wrong about it all, but I’m not counting on it.

I’ve Seen The Light! Go Obama!

How could I have been so wrong? My daughter informed me this morning that she does not believe in a Free Capitalistic Society so she is voting for Obama – she is so looking forward to that Socialistic society with the Robin Hood approach – take from the rich and give to the poor mentality. What was I thinking of, actually working hard, trying to make a better life for myself and my family when I should just take other people’s money?  Aren’t I entitled to their wealth? Well, I am here to tell you I have seen the light.

For years my husband and I have worked to put our kids and ourselves through college – silly us! Not any longer! If Obama is elected we are going to start out on a whole new life and frankly I can’t wait!

First, we sell our house but make sure we don’t have any Capital Gains to report – that’s key. We shouldn’t have any problem selling, we were responsible, put down a 30% down payment, didn’t borrow more than we could afford to pay and have paid extra every month so we actually have equity in our home.

Then, since he is lifting the penalties on early withdrawal from our IRA’s, we’ll go ahead and cash those in – they won’t really be worth much once he raises the income tax level for all those companies I am invested in anyway.

Next, my husband quits his job – we won’t need that pesky health insurance, Obama will make sure we have plenty of health insurance so, not to worry.

Once we have spent all the money from the IRA’s, we’ll cash out our life insurance, our children can worry about how to bury us – we’ll be dead! Not our problem!

Now that all our money and assets are gone, let’s run up those credit card’s (that we have because we always worked hard and have excellent credit) and get new furniture, a big plasma television and then declare bankruptcy so we don’t have to pay it back! Woo hoo!

Okay, so now we are destitute so let’s go on welfare and let the government take care of us for the rest of our lives which should only be twenty or thirty years or so.  Not a bad deal.

The last thing – my most favorite part of all of this is now I can’t wait to fill out the FAFSA next year for our son’s college education! No more telling us we will need to pay it all ourselves because we make too much money! Yay!!!! And since the government is picking up the tab and his grades are so good, let’s pull him out of that crappy State University and enroll him in one of the Private Schools he was accepted in but which we could not afford to send him to because we paid all our money in income taxes so that other kids whose parents are on welfare could go to private colleges. But those days are over now.  Happy days are here again!

I am so over the idea that taking something that I didn’t earn and doesn’t belong to me is a crime – now I get all those thieves I helped lock up over the years working for the District Attorney’s office – I was so misguided, they just wanted their fair share! How dare the State and I actually think that was a crime!

But I can’t help but wonder – why did I send my daughter to college again?