I am afraid. Yes, I am afraid of the damage that can be done by even four years of an Obama Presidency married to a Democrat legislative majority. The damage to our freedoms and our economy might long be felt. But I am scared of more than that. Yes, I am scared, very scared of the long term effects of one, two, or even three Obama appointees to the Supreme Court would have on unborn life for generations. This is my greatest fear and my greatest motivator to get out and vote tomorrow.
I also have smaller, more immediate fears. Fears of tomorrow night. Not just a fear that Obama will win, I have been trying to prepare for that possibility for some time, but a fear that the polls are completely wrong, but just not enough.
I am afraid that polls that show Obama in a landslide will prove off the mark. We would see tight race after tight race in states Obama should have won in a walk. McCain, for his part, thwarts the media hope to call the race early. McCain wins in Florida by 3 pts. McCain wins Ohio by 5. Virginia is a squeaker, but McCain holds on to the barest victory there as well. Pennsylvania, always a long shot goes to Obama. The race now comes down to a few western states. Colorado and Nevada. McCain wins Nevada by a few points but, to my horror loses Colorado by a single point handing the election to Obama.
This would be an unspeakable horror, not only because of the requisite heartbreak of losing a close election, but because we would lose more than just the election.
Even in this Obama victory, the landslide predictions would have been shattered. The explanation? Certainly not flawed polling but racism. Racism, alive and well in America, would be the story for weeks, months, or even longer. That is a real horror, they claim victory and racism at the same time. Please Lord, spare us this fate.
Such a victory would validate the Acorn and Obama credit fraud juggernaut win by cheating methodology. History is written by the victors and the obvious fraud would forgotten and purposely ignored in the media frenzy over the Obama victory, guaranteeing even greater fraud in the future. Please Lord, spare us this fate.
A victory by Obama with small margins would also make obvious how the conservative and pro-life in name only elitists helped to cost McCain this election. Noonan, Buckley, Parker, et al with with their calculating self promotion and snobbery cost us the election with death by a thousand little verbal cuts. But most of all, the Catholics who while ostensibly pro-life, could not hold their noses long enough to pull the trigger for McCain will have mightily contributed to electing the most virulently pro-death candidate ever to run for high office. Please Lord, spare us this fate.
These are my fears, but I am not resigned to them. The record here at CMR shows that I have never been a John McCain supporter. In the primary, I wanted anybody but John. But tomorrow I will vote for John McCain. I hope you do too. Vote, and perhaps we may yet be spared this horrible fate.
November 3, 2008 at 4:11 pm
There’s also the distinct possibility of a close Obama victory followed up by widespread charges of fraud from McCain supporters, given how little stock the latter have put into polls thus far.
November 3, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Of course, any charges of fraud by McCain supporters would be completely ignored by the MSM. And no matter how narrow the victory, the Democrats will have been given a “resounding mandate” for wholesale change in every possible way.
Now if McCain wins, the fraud charges and lawsuits and expose’ stories of how the Republicans stole ANOTHER election would be endless. And that narrow margin of victory would be cited over and over again to remind McCain that he does not have a clear mandate to continue in Bush’s footsteps.
November 3, 2008 at 4:43 pm
This election is a lose/lose (the opposing side will hold a grudge for for four years), except for the issue of Life and that can only be won by one.
I will vote, no doubt, but in Ohio I am doubting my vote will even be counted. Sad, but true.
November 3, 2008 at 6:07 pm
We really have to pray that Pennsylvania goes for McCain. I have heard that it may be closer than we think. A vistory there will make it very hard for Obama to win.
November 3, 2008 at 6:51 pm
Have you seen the news on the Obama audio saying that his plan will bankrupt coal? See the news release from the Ohio Coal Association here. The SF Chronicle had the audio but has sat on it since January, apparently.
This news getting out could really help McCain.
And I feel the same way. I didn’t vote Mc in the primary, either, but the alternative is simply not acceptable this time around.
November 3, 2008 at 8:01 pm
I am not afraid—never have been. God is so majestic, so powerful, so amazing. He has this amazing capacity to bring so much good from so much evil. Read the Scripture–it’s full of God’s glory. A win by Obama may cause great devastation, but it may well bring Christians home to Christ, no longer willing to accept the status quo, willing to fight harder, willing to examine themselves and their corner of the world, no longer willing to vote for politicians–any politician–because they are the “lesser of two evils.” As a Catholic, my hope is in the Lord always. Pray, pray, pray.
November 3, 2008 at 9:07 pm
This is the first presidential election that I’ll be able to vote in. In 2004 I was in the hospital with pre-term labor so I didn’t get to vote, but tomorrow I will be casting my first presidential vote for John McCain.
I’m in NY so I don’t think it will make much difference, but I don’t want to have been silent if Obama is elected. My vote won’t get McCain elected, but I need to vote against Obama just the same.
November 3, 2008 at 9:53 pm
Patrick, this is all very well said.
Here in Illinois, my vote for McCain may make little difference, but in many down-ballot races I may help turn the tide.
November 3, 2008 at 10:21 pm
Barack’s grandmother, Madelyn Dunham just died. I believe she was Methodist/Baptist. Regardless, I sympathise with his loss.
November 3, 2008 at 10:25 pm
I too have never been a McCain supporter, I am casting my vote not FOR McCain as my ideal presidential pick, but against Obama. McCain has the best chance of beating Obama than ever tossing a vote to a 3rd party because I don’t care for McCain. The choice between McCain and Obama is clear for me on the issues of Supreme Court justices and the millions of babies killed each year in the womb. Obama hasn’t wrapped this up yet, Gore won the popular vote and still lost the election, I am hoping and praying Obama walks in those shoes tomorrow.