I'll Back Mac!

Nearly every day at work someone tells me that they wish we had a Ronald Reagan conservative running in this year’s election. Well, Ronald Reagan he is not, but John McCain is, in my opinion, clearly the better choice for Americans. While Obama’s flashy campaigning and articulate speeches have inspired many, the truth is that voting for Barack Obama in this day in age will take us straight back to the Carter administration levels of inflation, taxation, and general “malaise” of the people.

With government spending out of control and an uncertain economy, we don’t need a president who is going to ignore the problem and worsen it by creating new bureaucracies and instituting entitlement programs that, however nice they might be, we simply cannot afford. As Ronald Reagan once said, “No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth!” If elected, Barack Obama will institute policies and create governmental bureaus that the United States will never be able to recover from. The issues that we are facing right now with Social Security are ten times less problematic than universal health care would be in fifty years!

As a citizen of the state of California, immigration is another issue that is important to me. I support increasing border security and providing easier legal avenues of entry to this country, as John McCain does. I do not believe that it is right to grant illegal immigrants driver’s licenses, as Barack Obama does. I think that granting this privilege to illegal workers completely rewards illegal behavior. My mother came to this country legally, and only recently became a citizen, something I am very proud of and celebrated with her. I think that by allowing these illegal immigrants it undermines the accomplishments of my mother and millions of others who have come to this country legally and taken the necessary steps toward citizenship.

While I personally didn’t vote for John McCain in the primaries (I have a crush on Mitt Romney like Scarlett Johansson has a crush on Barack), I am nevertheless ready to wholeheartedly support the candidate I disagree with 10% of the time as opposed to the candidate that I disagree with 95% of the time, and I have demonstrated that support working on the McCain-Palin campaign. I’ve worked both here in California as well as in Nevada making sure that people know the issues and are able to see past the rhetoric to the truth. And the truth is that no matter the hope inspired or the change invoked, America simply cannot afford to elect Barack Obama into the White House.