Conservatively
Speaking

I’m positive I’m not the only Republican out there in America who, after witnessing his horrible campaign strategy, thought he/she could’ve run a better campaign than John McCain in 2008. Ok, he ran against a young, charismatic, and popular (but very beatable) guy from Illinois. Even so, Barack Obama left a lot laying around that McCain could’ve hit him with.

Everything from his enormous tax increases, his ideas about Iraq, potential Supreme Court nominees all the way to stuff like his connections to Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, and the characters called ACORN. But oh no, John McCain refuses to get involved with “negative campaigning”. I mean after all, he does have his dignity. Screw dignity John, you’re running for the White House for Christ sake.

The first (and primary) thing I’d have done differently than John McCain was that I’d have made sure that whenever Barack Obama came up, the first thing everyone thought - tax increases. Every American (especially those who voted for Obama) should ask themselves a few questions about Obama’s plans for the American economy.

Do you really believe that a liberal in high office, with the kind of political support that Barack Obama has, will not, at some point, push for a major tax increase ? He made a list of promises on the campaign trail and a lot of those things (socialized health care, tax cuts for the middle class, amongst other things) are going to cost a hell of a lot of money.

There are two ways that the government gets more money - raise taxes or cut spending in another area. Since spending cuts are against the religion of liberalism (unless we’re talking about defense spending of course), you have to think that taxes are going up. Obama said that 95% of Americans will not see their taxes go up (never mind that 40% of Americans don’t even pay taxes). Once he sees that first bill, how long do you think before he changes his mind on that one ?

You can also ask yourself, what’s Obama more likely to do, scrap the ideas he’s promised or raise taxes to pay for them ? I would’ve hounded away on Obama’s plan to raise our taxes from day one. But yet again, John McCain thought of that as “negative campaigning”. I would have pounded it into America’s head - Vote Obama and watch your taxes grow, Vote Homer Simpson (my online alias) and watch your taxes shrink.

Unless I missed it, I don’t think John McCain has hit Obama at all in regards to the to the kind of people he’d appoint to the Supreme Court. I mean good lord, I’ve heard rumors that Obama would actually nominate Hillary Clinton for the next opening on the Supreme Court ! God help us all, I hope that’s just a load of BS that someone made up. If Homer Simpson became President, the political test in regards to the nominee’s position on abortion would be over (you know how the Democrats only nominate pro-abortion judges and the Republicans only nominate anti-abortion judges). If my plans to make abortion a state-by-state issue works out, Roe Vs. Wade will be irrelevant.

The first, and most important, qualification for my Supreme Court nominee is that he/she knows what his/her job actually is. The job of a Supreme Court judge is to INTERPRET the law. I haven’t heard anything about judges MAKING laws from the bench. John McCain have consistently asked the public about this. But once again, a perfectly legitimate question that McCain considered “negative campaigning”.

In regards to Barack Obama’s connections to characters like Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, and ACORN, talk about a ton of ammo McCain left on the table ! If McCain had been smart, he’d have mentioned the stuff himself from time to time. But then he should have had his campaign people out spreading this info everywhere. Commercials showing Wright making his famous anti-Semitic remarks and the fact that Barack Obama went to church to listen to Wright for over 20 years. Commercials pointing out the fact that Bill Ayers introduced Barack Obama to the political world in addition to the list of terrorist activities carried out by Bill Ayers. I’d have had commercials like that running around the clock, all over America. Oh, I’m sure the Democrats would start with the racism charges and the name Willie Horton would suddenly start popping up again. But hey, if they can’t take the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Don’t get the wrong idea, I’m not announcing my candidacy for President in 2012 (even though I’d love to beat Obama over the head with all this stuff). I’m just letting the word know that we’d have seen a tougher election if yours truly could have pushed John McCain aside and run for the White House.