I was leery of John McCain from the beginning. I was actually looking forward to voting for Duncan Hunter, but he dropped out of the race before I had a chance. I thought about becoming a Fred Head, but alas, he didn’t make it either. I ended up voting for Mitt, just a few days before he dropped as well. Right now, with my track record of every candidate I have gotten behind falling out of the race, I am thinking of supporting whoever becomes the Democratic Nominee. I am curious whether or not my support is actually detrimental to a candidate.

My blood runs cold at the thought of any of our present choices becoming the President. Both Hillary and Obama have openly stated that they want to turn our country into a Socialist Paradise starting with Nationalized Health Care and then moving on to stripping the profits (and incentives to produce) from our oil companies. Obviously the schools they attended didn’t have economics as a part of the curriculum.

What choices does that leave us with? Ron Paul? I am all about getting rid of the IRS and getting back to a smaller government which actually looks at the Constitution to see what it is supposed to do, but I think his chances are about as slim as a snowball in Global Warming. He also scares me with his ideas about the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is just too much, too quick, our country is not ready for that amount of change in one big step.

Where does that leave us? John McCain, War Hero. The only thing I like about McCain is his stand on the war. But you have to wonder about him. War is a dirty business, and there are things done there that you really don’t want discussed in the parlor over tea. I can understand his personal position on torture and Gitmo, but I think that it is wrong to tell our enemies what we will or will not do, what lines we are willing to cross, and those we won’t, but if our Nation’s security is at risk, we should have the freedom to cross those lines if needed.

What about the price of gasoline? All three of the main candidates have proposed their solution for the high price of gas at the pump. The problem is, they are just pandering to the voters. They don’t have a solution. At most, they have a plan for very short term relief for a problem that has far reaching implications. We need to get out of the way and let our country do what our country does best, and that is, find a solution.

Stop this talk about confiscating profits. Stop trying to regulate every aspect of our lives. Give us the freedom to think and experiment. We will never find a solution to any problem when the government has us so tied up and regulated with petty rules that every time we try to do something we trip over the red tape.

Open up our oil fields to exploration. We have technology to drill without destroying the countryside now, let’s use it! John McCain said on the Glenn Beck Radio Program last week that he would as soon drill for oil in the Grand Canyon as to drill ANWR. I agree with Glenn’s commentary on his statement that he was all for it as well, if there was oil in the canyon. Of course, that is a gross example, but we have oil reserves in this country, we have huge coal reserves, we have some of the best scientific minds in the world here and the best facilities. LET US USE OUR OWN RESOURCES!

But, that is just My Arrogant Opinion.

Every time I turn on the radio or watch the news on television these days, I keep hearing how Hillary has a plan to save the taxpayers some money on the high price of gasoline.  Obama is also chiming in with his own plan to solve our problem.  John McCain is right in the thick of the fray as well declaring a gas tax holiday from Memorial Day to Labor Day.

Maybe it’s just me, but it seems like they should be more concerned with what they will do after they get in office than what they are going to do this summer,  because unless I missed something, not one of these wizards of the gas price has any authority to do a damn thing about it this summer!  We have 3 Senators running around telling people what they are going to do about the high price of gas and making noises like they are in charge of something.

I don’t know of anything that an individual Senator has ever accomplished especially with the margins being so tight in Washington, and none of them have made it to the Oval Office yet to implement their magic spells over the gas pumps. Since the Democrats gained control of the House and Senate in 2006, they haven’t been able to accomplish anything of note.  Gas prices have skyrocketed, as has the price of food.  None of the wonderful things Queen Nancy promised would take place under her watch have come to pass.  Is she a liar, or just a totally ineffectual Speaker of the House?

These candidates need to tell us what they plan on doing when they are actually in office and shut up about what they are going to do right now, oops what they WOULD do if they had unlimited power and authority to act right now.  They sound an awful lot like the little boy who was teasing the dog behind the fence as he walked down the sidewalk then came to the sick realization that the fence didn’t turn the corner when he did.

But, that is just My Arrogant Opinion.