CU Voter Guide (Long Awaited I'm sure)

AAL1: People I'm (more or less) happy to endorse

Presdient and Vice President:
John McCain and Sarah Palin

It has taken me a long time to get on board this ticket as a conservative. If you thought the St. Paul Pioneer Press' endorsement of George W. Bush in 2004 was backhanded, you haven't seen anything yet. Make no mistake, whoever wins the White House is no friend of conservatism. Both candidates have weaknesses on the first amendment (though Obama has been far bolder about that), while Obama and Biden have tried to paint McCain as Bush III the fact is McCain sold President Bush out weaking his tax cuts in 2003, and selling him out on his judicial nominations for no logical reason other than to play politics by appearing not to play partisainship.

While I am unabashedly close to being a neo-con, one might assume that maybe it was Sarah Palin's choice that made the difference. While I agree with her on almost everything, and if she were to use the constitutional power afforded the vice president, that Sen. Biden is just plain ignorant on, to preside over the Senate I would love to see the look on Sen. "Dirty" Harry Reid's face. I understand her power is very limited unless something should happen to John McCain. However, I think that possibilty has been grossly overplayed.

At the end of the day McCain is right one conservative-friendly issue and none of the other candidates are. McCain understands the challenge of defending this country. A couple years ago, when I wasn't pleased with the primary candidates in both parties that were emerging, I decided I should be a single issue voter, that I was going to vote for whichever candidate is willing to elminate most of America's enemies. McCain gets that the saftey of every american depends on it, Obama wants to negotate with those that are willing to outright lie to us. Furthermore, McCain gets that Obama's redistributive policies are dangerous for the economy and therefore dangerous to our security. At the end of the day, the decision is clear...

Minnesota Senate:
Norm Coleman

While many area conservatives lump Sen. Coleman as a typical RINO (Republican in Name Only, not an original CU blogword) like Rep. Jim Ramstad or Gov. Tim Pawlenty, I give Coleman a pass on his more liberal votes because 1) He has been one of President Bush's strongest supporters on the war on terror. 2) He has been one of President Bush's strongest suppoters on judges (more than McCain), 3) He has been one of President Bush's strongest supporters on taxes.

I did give Dean Barkley some serious consideration, but the fact is for a so-called "political outsider" he gave a very political "I'm not so sure how I would've voted on the bailout" type-answer. If he stood up for the bailout that none of the voters wanted, and both Coleman and Franken support I probably would've gone his way.

I think most Senators now have some remorse that they didn't listen to the american people on that bill, I'm going to stick with Sen. Coleman.

House of Represenatives Minnesota 5th District:
Barb Davis White

I know she has absolutly no shot. It is rare in Minneapolis to find people that see Obama and Ellison's redistributive policies and dangerous for the economy. It's rare to see candidates in Minneapolis that believe in life. In fact most are mocked as being uniformed, as if it takes some great intellectual power to defend the pro-choice argument. White will probably lose 2-1 or so, but she has my support.

Other Area Races (that I won't be voting in).

House of Representatives Minnesota 3rd District: Erik Paulson,
Make No Mistake Madia is another "Tax the rich until they can't hire the poor" liberal.

House of Representatives Minnesota 6th District: Michelle Bachman,
She was one of the very first people to favor domestic drilling, she has been a strong supporter of the president, and she got a bum-rap from Chris Mad-thews for simply suggesting that the Media should do their job and dig into what Obama's policies are (and damn the national GOP for bailing on her, essectially siding with Mad-thews, I hope they burn in hell for that).