The Most Important Election in History

Every four years, politicos and pundits, both left and right, come together in a harmonious hymn of hyperbole: “This is the most important election in history!” they sing.   This time nobody’s exaggerating.  What happens on Nov. 6 really is of critical importance. America’s future really does hang in the balance.

On THIS November 6^th, those who vote will choose life or death for many of our freedoms in this land. This presidential election outcome will have huge consequences. We have two men with very different ideas about what America should be. The right man could provide the fuel to get our country back on track, and the wrong man could prove to be the final nail in her coffin.

Under President Obama, the reasons for this election’s unparalleled significance are piling up like pink slips in the private sector, like credit rating downgrades, like zeros on the national debt.

Not since the civil war has there been this great a difference in two major political parties in this country.  On the one hand we have the Democrats who believe the form of government in Cuba and Venezuela is the way our country should go.  http://www.democratichub.com/hugo-chavez.aspx?o=pv&gclid=CJfzr7HqprMCFe57QgodoEgAkQ   And on the other hand we have the Republicans who believe we need to get back to the constitutional principles on which this country was founded.

If re-elected, the only roadblock in Obama’s way will be the Supreme Court, and he will have the power to remove that roadblock.   To be sure, the next president will appoint at least one, maybe two, and maybe even three or four new justices to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The average age of retirement for Supreme Court Justices is 78.7 years. Right now, the Court contains two conservative justices who are 76 years old, and one liberal justice, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, who is 79. Five justices have served a term of at least 18 years. The breakdown:

• Ruth Bader Ginsberg, age 79, tenure 19 years, politically LIBERAL
• Antonin Scalia, age 76, tenure 25 years, politically CONSERVATIVE
• Anthony Kennedy, age 76, tenure 24 years, politically CONSERVATIVE
• Stephen Breyer, age 74, tenure 18 years, politically LIBERAL
• Clarence Thomas, age 64, tenure 20 years, politically CONSERVATIVE
• Samuel Alito, age 62, tenure 6 years, politically CONSERVATIVE
• Sonia Sotomayor, age 58, tenure 3 years, politically LIBERAL
• Chief Justice John Roberts, age 57, tenure 6 years, politically CONSERVATIVE
• Elena Kagan, age 52, tenure 2 years, politically LIBERAL 

As voters, this should be our most critical point of focus: ensuring an originalist, strict constructionist majority.  If Obama is re-elected and appoints just one more Ruth Bader Ginsburg, forget it. America, as our founders envisioned her, is gone and we will indeed be just like Cuba and Venezuela.

This is why, after the primary, I went from an outspoken Romney critic, to a cautiously optimistic Romney supporter, to an outspoken Romney supporter.   He has pledged: “I will appoint conservative, strict constructionists to the judiciary.”

President Obama has already shown who he’ll appoint.  In Justices Elena Kagan and Sonja Sotomayor, he has stacked the Court with two radical counter-constitutionalists who share his belief that the Constitution “is not a static, but living document and must be read in the context of an ever changing world.”

Naturally, if the Constitution is “ever changing,” the Constitution is meaningless.

But it gets worse. Obama has also called this – the very founding document upon which our laws, public policy, indeed our very freedoms rest – an “imperfect document,” a “living document … that reflects some deep flaws in American culture.”

Moreover, during the 2008 campaign, Obama lamented that the Supreme Court, under Chief Justice Earl Warren, failed to “break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution.”

Let that sink in a moment.  In his own words, this man – a man solemnly sworn to uphold the U.S. Constitution – has portrayed utter disdain for it.  He has, in essence, admitted that he views our most sacred founding document as a “constraint” against his thinly veiled efforts to “fundamentally transform” America into Greece.

Thank God our Founding Fathers predicted that men like Barack Obama would come and go.  And thank God they had the wisdom to plan accordingly.

Patrick Henry once said, “Liberty ought to be the direct end of your government.”  Today, we have it exactly backward.  Four more years of Barack Obama, and government will be the direct end of your liberty.

If you don’t think it matters whether the guy making those calls is Mitt Romney or Barack Obama, then I think you’re smokin’ something funky.  

A vote for anyone but Romney is a vote for Obama. 
Still thinking of sitting this one out? 

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