I watched pieces of it – as much as I could stomach. Most of it was preempted by Back to School Night and a meeting with my kids’ piano teacher. Then there was a discussion with my son about his challenges in school. Apparently, John McCain wants to be a part of that – he’s going to “fight for me” on the education front.<\/p>\n
Here’s the thing – I don’t want John McCain to fight for me.<\/p>\n
No, that’s not true. I want him to make sure that America’s military is killing people and breaking things in order to keep the country secure. Beyond that, I want him to leave me the heck alone. I don’t want him messing with education or “corruption” – i.e. free speech – or global warming or any other pet project that captures his fancy on any given day. I don’t want his compromise judges to “fight for the little guy” by rewriting the Constitution to reflect the latest political fads. Yes, I respect a man who underwent five years of torture on behalf of this country. I’ll give him all the accolades he can possibly imagine. But he’s demonstrated time and again that he shouldn’t be given real responsibility to set policy for the nation.<\/p>\n
And here’s the thing, John – I don’t want to end the partisan rancor in Washington. It should grow louder and louder as long as the other guys insist on being wrong. I don’t want everyone to get along. I want my side to win. In order for everyone to get along, someone has to back down. That’s what Beavis is going to do in the name of “fighting” for America. I don’t want to meet global warming kooks halfway and spend only two trillion on junk science instead of four trillion. I don’t want free speech limited just a little bit less during campaign seasons. I don’t want judges who are acceptable to enough lefties that they’ll only be slightly less tyrannical.<\/p>\n
I want a strong military, good highways, and judges who follow instructions. I want to be taxed at the bare minimum of what it takes to make that happen. Then I want Washington to butt out of my life and let me fight the good fight without their meddling.<\/p>\n
That’s why I’m going to vote for a dead guy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iwatched pieces of it - as much as I could stomach. Most of it was preempted by Back to School Night and a meeting with my kids' piano teacher. Then there was a discussion with my son about his challenges in school. Apparently, John McCain wants to be a part of that - he's going ... Read more<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4845,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/4845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}