A Day in the Life

I spent the whole day today working for McCain/Palin in Indiana. Yes, I am from Kentucky. But I am an American before a Kentuckian, and Indiana needs me. We have to win Indiana, so I went to Indiana. I woke up at 3am, unable to sleep. I was like a kid on Christmas Eve. I fell back to sleep for a little while and then woke up again at 6. I got my shower, got dressed, and headed to Republican Headquarters in Jeffersonville. I wasn't due there until 9, but I couldn't stop myself from showing up at 8.

I helped set the phones up around the room, then distributed a huge stack of telephone numbers among the 21 T-Mobile phones in the room, in a place that USED TO BE what could best be described as a "wannabe Chuck E. Cheeses." An old go-cart track with a bunch of free standing video games inside. The video games and go-carts were now gone. Apparently repossessed by the bank. The company went out of business, but as I stood outside and enjoyed a cigarette I stared at the track, reflecting back on the days my son and I would race around that very track, which wasn't far from our home at the time, thinking of how he would grit his teeth and try his best to beat his dad, and how he would pout if I bumped him too much, or God forbid beat him! Soon I heard the sound of hammering, and found myself helping nail red, white, and blue banners and Mike Sodrel for Congress signs to the outside of the building. GOP headquarters had moved. It had been in a much smaller building down the street, but now the troops were gearing up, election day was nearing, and they just had to have more room for "the surge." Obama was against it. Haha.

Around 9am I sat down to start to make calls. It was just me. As the next hour quickly slipped by, a few more volunteers trickled in. By noon it was 8 or 9 volunteers. But by 4 O'clock every phone was up to an ear, and the sound of a nearly a couple dozen McCainiacs talking to voters was music to my ears. People came in and out, in three hour shifts, but I couldn't make myself put that phone down and go home. I had to seize the moment, and seize it I did.

I guess over the twelve hours I sat and called voters, I had two hang-ups, three Obama supporters, and countless voice mails. One guy was deceased but his wife promised to carry the torch and vote for McCain. Another woman, the most interesting of the day, vowed "NEVER to vote again for anybody." Why? "In 2003 I was being evicted from my apartment and I called every politician to help me that I could find, and nobody helped me. So I'm not voting for anybody ever again." Yeah, that made sense. I am sure Obama would have helped her. There is absolutely NO REASON not to prevent any and all foreclosures, any and all collection efforts . . . we should just take more money from the rich, give it to the poor, so they can pay their rent with it, right?

But time and again, almost every time I actually spoke with someone, as soon as they heard I was with the Indiana Republican Party, volunteered that they WERE voting, and they were voting for McCain. So much for the polls. I'll tell you THIS right now. I know what the "polls" say, but I know what I heard from INDIANA VOTERS, from ALL OVER THE STATE . . . and this was the easiest sell I have ever had to make. I KNOW that voter turnout is going to be absolutely phenomenal this year across the country.

The race is between, on the one hand . . . people who just want "change," whatever that means, people who have no interest in considering character, experience, and voting record . . . people who have either CHOSEN to believe what the "networks" have told them, or who have chosen to NOT be educated on the issues that matter, or SHOULD matter . . . . and on the other side people who value experience, judgment, a candidate's record, and national security. Believe me. I talked to these people. These McCain supporters KNOW why they are supporting McCain, and it's not because Obama is black. McCain supporters CHOOSE to know the candidates and choose among them, being informed. Obama supporters want "change," and don't care about anything else. That's just a FACT, like it or not. The laundry list of Obama's character flaws, bad judgments, and questionable associations is far too long to dirty up THIS blog entry with. You know what they are. You either choose to pay attention to them and support McCain, or disregard them because you want "change," or some expanded entitlement.

Obama said that the Republicans are making a "virtue out of selfishness," but isn't it just as selfish to base your vote on what Obama is going to do for YOU? Checkmate.

I'm back on the phones tomorrow, on my son's 13th birthday . . . Country First baby! And I have already been assigned to be a "challenger" on election day, to investigate absentee ballots that ACORN and others have tried to slip through the system to steal the election. I was born in the day, but not yesterday, and I promise you this . . . every ballot I lay my eye on will be valid, or it WILL be challenged, no matter WHO the ballot is for. And finally, to you Obamaheads: Go ahead and be uninformed. Be selfish. Make bad choices. It is only fitting you would make a bad choice in choosing a man who has done NOTHING BUT MAKE BAD CHOICES. But not to worry . . . us RIGHT thinking McCainiacs will save you . . . and protect you from YOURSELVES.

Nighty night. : )

GOD BLESS AMERICA!