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The NY Times knew the story wasn’t true when they printed it. While watching my local news in recent days, there are always two stories; one is a detailed report on the positive message coming out of the Obama and Clinton campaigns and one is the ‘fight’ between Sen. McCain and the NY Times. Nothing about McCain’s message.

This is right out of the Democratic playbook. By printing a story that they know is false, but which casts a pall on the Republican candidate, they have started a snowball rolling down a hill. The Times surrogates in national and local newsrooms will continue the story perpetually. The Democratic candidate will use the story, true or false, to suggest a ‘culture of corruption’ in the Republican Party. This story was part of a larger strategy and the Times knew that it was worth taking a little heat in the process.

How many times have the Democrats done just this leading up to a Presidential or congressional election? This is slimy politics at its worst and the Times knows that their loyalty to the Democratic Party and the left wing is always paramount. The Times will get a slap on the wrist and an admonition by their ombudsman will give the image of self-policing after the fact once again.

In the end, it is all meant to turn public opinion against Republicans at the most crucial times. The original premise of the story will live on in news stories and Democratic speeches for months to come. The left does this all the time and finds just enough gullible voters to accomplish their mission.

Few people have had the experience I have had as the author of letters sent to Sen. McCain’s office.  I have called his office also.  This was long before his current presidential bid.  Because I am a classic ‘values voter,’ none of the responses, when there were responses, were ever satisfactory. Not remotely.

Sen. McCain has a narrow conservative streak in him, but it is limited to his hawkish approach to world politics and the war on terrorism. On these things, I can not fault him. 

It is the lack of a moral core in the Senator that bothers me.  On ‘family values’ matters, the Senator turns a blind eye and indifferent view.  His opinion of evangelical Christians is not unlike that of his Democratic counterparts; Obama and Clinton.

The question a conservative, Christian Republican has to ask is; where do we go from here?  There is no ideal scenario.  There is no joy and nothing to look forward too.  Liberals within the ranks of Republicans and independents will support McCain.  They may care about fiscal conservatism, but not social conservatism.  Liberal newspapers will endorse him as their Republican endorsement, but that is only because they hate conservatives and they claim to be non-partisan.

There is no doubt that McCain has a far more conservative voting record than either Clinton or Obama, but he is a Republican only on paper.   As a recent study of the voting records of Senators pointed out, anyone has a more conservative voting record than Barack Obama.  Hillary Clinton is only marginally better, with a more realistic record on defense.

This is an election that conservative Republicans can not win.  It falls short in every measure of conservative values and Christian values.  There will be judges chosen and laws passed that will set conservatives back a hundred years. 

Although I would prefer Huckabee, I will vote for John McCain.  I love my country too much and realize that another 9/11 is too likely to vote for a Democrat.  I also believe that reducing taxes and reducing government interference is too important to vote for a Democrat.  So I’m left with McCain.  I still feel empty.  The extreme left wins no matter how you slice it in November.  They either get 100% of what they want or they get some lesser amount, but not zero.

Conservatives can only ask themselves; why don’t more people care about what made America great in the first place?  The Founders had it right; Ronald Reagan knew that. Why did it end there? 

Conservatives can not wait four more years.  There will never be another chance for conservatives after this presidential election.  A new generation of voters, programmed by the extreme left, will begin voting soon.  They will forever sway the direction of elections in the future.  They have been a part of a social engineering experiment that finds its roots in the public schools, movie studios of Hollywood, recording studios of conservative-hating music companies, textbook publishers, daily newspapers and news broadcasts and a left influenced Internet.

Our last great hope was that a conservative would be sent to the Oval Office and lead the country as Reagan did.  Our hope would be that someone who believes in the founding principles of this nation would sit in the White House again.  That will be partially achieved if John McCain is elected, but there will be a void for conservatives that does not quench.  Even if he wins, we are still left asking; where do we go from here?