I understand and agree with what you guys and the beautiful Mrs Boyer are saying: we shouldn't be naive about what we are getting and, yes, all those cheering fans are being very naive! But now the cloned post:

Hey all you Paleo Purists! We’ve lost the culture war. The dialectic has turned a few times and nothing short of meltdown and/or civil war is going to bring back the life we cherish. Most of us older folks haven’t even been able to pass it on to our children and certainly not to our grandchildren. No election is going to change that — as most of the Chronicles posts recognize.

So why are we being stubborn holdouts for the perfect ticket? It hasn’t happened, again. All one can do is perform a little calculus as the issues and facts parade before us and go for the team that is closer or even slightly closer to our own desires.

Other than the possibility of McCain foolishly pursuing hegemony around the world, McCain is closer to our side than is Obama. And even with Obama we are still going to have someone who thinks we should be the world’s policeman. You can count on his signing on to United Nation’s adventures and foolish treaties that usurp US sovereignty. With McCain having a Democratic congress to contend with I doubt that he will be able to engage in much imperialism.

It pains me to see so many of you whom I respect being such absolutists. Most of you are agreeing that Obama would be worse and yet you are still holding out. For what? Look, we all know the Bush years have been a disaster but at least we got a Supreme Court that recognizes the 2nd Amendment means what it says. And didn’t Bush appointees uphold the partial birth abortion ban? I hate to expouse situation ethics but that’s the choice we have before us.

I know you don't like to vote. And it's probably true that if it would change anything then "they" wouldn't let us do it. However, I still show up at the polls for 2 reasons.
1. I had to wait 10 extra years for citizenship because I was white, and even then Congressman Frank Wolf had to intervene on my behalf -- the spite factor, and
2. I vote No on any and all bond issues and Virginia constitutional amendments -- another spite factor.

Plus, since VA has no party registration I'll vote in democrat primaries for Lyndon LaRouche because he's a bull goose loony who got railroaded by the system, and he's Virginia's bull goose loony. Like Tip O'Neill said -- all politics is local.

More serious is the blatant militarism of the McPalin ticket, emphasized and re-emphasized by both candidates and the me-too militarism of Obama and the democrats. The American people are bloodthirsty and eager for more war. Were a pro-war position unpopular, the candidates would be eager to conceal their own pro-war inclinations; instead they proclaim their militarism in every interview.

Mark Shea is doing an outstanding job of analyzing the leftist hatred of Palin, which he rightly sees as an example of the leftist hatred of the normal which Joe Sobran has been writing about for decades.

Mark Shea is doing an outstanding job of analyzing the leftist hatred of Palin, which he rightly sees as an example of the leftist hatred of the normal which Joe Sobran has been writing about for decades: http://www.markshea.blogspot.com/

I think you are correct.