Conservatives' pledge to John McCain

By Donald Hank

Now Americans know that John McCain is deeply indebted to conservative-hating George Soros, and that, partly in response, over 40% of poll respondents will not vote for him, over 20% may vote for him depending on how he behaves from here on out, and 12% will vote for him only to beat Hillary and Obama.

Here is his dilemma:

Senator McCain says he is the candidate best positioned to protect America from its foreign enemies, but like his fellow neocon, George W. Bush, refuses to support closing the border or deporting illegal immigrants, none of whom are required to show any evidence that they are not enemies of the US, thanks to the lax policies in place due to politicians like McCain.

John McCain goes to Senate cronies and says "amnesty for all." Then as a candidate, speaking out of the other side of his oral cavity, he comes to the electorate and says he'll close the borders.

Americans are thinking: shouldn't he be fighting for border security in the Senate before telling us this story? After all, he is a powerful US senator. At least his friends will listen if he trumpets this message persuasively in the Senate. He helped organize a coalition that almost granted amnesty to 20 million, so he must have clout.

Of course, if he claims he doesn't have that kind of clout, why should we be voting for a political weakling? If he claims he does, then he can prove it by persuading the Senate and the President to do the right thing, building the fence and starting to turn back illegal immigrants rather than detaining them and releasing them on our territory. Oh, and releasing Ramos and Compean as well, of course. After all, it shouldn't take much to persuade them, since every Republican senator, and the President as well, have a vested interest in a John McCain win.

The hole in which McCain may soon be buried was dug by McCain, not by the conservative voters he now wants to court. So the problem is his. Nonetheless, here is how you can generously help him solve it. Simply sign and send in this conservative pledge to the McCain Campaign:

My Pledge as a Conservative:
Sen. McCain, I am respectfully asking you to persuade your friends in the Senate and your friend the President to actually close the border by November, actually building a physical fence spanning all parts of the southern US border generally deemed to be vulnerable, turning back all illegal immigrants detained at the southern border and elsewhere in the United States, releasing border agents Compean and Ramos from prison and firing US Prosecutor Johnny Sutton for abuse of authority. If you succeed in persuading them, and if you do not move substantially further to the Left on any other issue, then I will understand that you are not only sincere in your campaign promises but are strong enough politically to lead America. Under these circumstances and only these, I pledge that I will vote for you in November. If you do not, I will vote for a third party candidate.

Meanwhile, for those of you who, like myself, seriously doubt McCain has the will or ability to persuade his fellow GOP politicians to do their duty under the Constitution, here is an inspiring message from a politician who has always shown respect for that document and who might eventually wind up on a third party ticket thanks to the utter failure of the GOP to provide a truly Republican candidate.

I realize that Ron Paul has one apparent flaw in the eyes of many conservatives, namely, his lack of support for the war in Iraq.

But let me point something out.

America, under a devout Christian president, has been fighting in Iraq for about 5 years now. By over a year ago, 50% of all Assyrian Christians had fled Iraq for fear of persecution and death. Ironically, under Saddam Hussein, who had at least one Christian, Tariq Azziz, in his cabinet, Christians lived at peace with their Muslim compatriots. By these criteria alone, it is hard to speak of success for the US. Quite the opposite.

Thus, a religious group totaling in the hundreds of thousands is now being forced to flee after 5 years of occupation, despite a Constitution that guarantees equal rights to its citizens regardless of religion, to whit:

Article 14:

Iraqis are equal before the law without discrimination based on gender, race, ethnicity, origin, color, religion, creed, belief or opinion, or economic and social status.

In reality, this reflects our own situation, where the Constitution enjoins the President to execute (enforce) the law but where the mandate is being ignored, most notably in terms of G.W. Bush's execution — or rather non-execution — of immigration laws.

Thus the assumption that Bush's war has succeeded succumbs to scrutiny. A pullout under a Ron Paul administration could hardly do more harm to Iraqi Christians than the harm that Bush has done through unintentional consequences.

The fact that the group harmed most is Christians adds insult to injury and amounts to a net liability for our culture and our country.

Fidelis novelist A.R. Horvath has already pointed out that when Christianity fails it is because Christians ignore the actual text of the Bible, and that likewise, when America fails, it is because she ignores the actual text of our Constitution.

No politician has departed more radically from that text in a lifetime of service than the co-author of McCain-Feingold.

Likewise, no politician has stuck more closely to that text in a lifetime of service than Representative Ron Paul.

© Donald Hank