Qualifications for President

Now that everyone's favorite candidate for president has now wound up prematurely politically dead, I think it is time to plan for 2012.

I will vote, and I promise, without the least equivocation or mental reservation whatever, to actually vote, for any candidate for President of the United States who :

- Drives a pickup.

- Knows the value of a dollar because he's actually worked for one.

- Has never been divorced more times than absolutely necessary.

- Occasionally laughs, always means it when he does.

- Never drinks more beer in a night than he can lift.

- Owns a gun and knows which end to point.

- Knows that we can't tax our way to prosperity.

- Knows that we can't buy prosperity with a government check.

- Knows that the Founding Fathers are dead, but that common sense isn't.

- Understands that government isn't the solution, it's the problem.

- Doesn't trust Kentuckians because they're Northerners.

- Who always straightens his back when saluting the Stars & Stripes.

- Has either a son who plays football, or a yellow dog.

- Who isn't ashamed to be an American.

- Knows that there are people in the world that will stop at nothing
to repeat and outdo September 11th.

- Who doesn't believe in promises made by enemies.

- Who, whatever he does for prayer, has a deep respect for those who do.

- Who doesn't look like a jackass in a Stetson.

- Has done a day's work.

Bob Dole minus the charm, conservatism and youth

Bleech. We're stuck with John McCain.

The Democrats are in a frenzy, with the Clintons having to eat Barack Obama in plain sight of everybody, blood and gore dripping from their teeth, and it turns out there isn't a Republican running against them.

The bastards. The whole miserable lot of Republicans sent to Washington in 2000. They set themselves to pork-barrelling, didn't give a damn about the issues, then the whole self-serving lot have given up their majority, and now they can't even find a sober man to run for the presidency among them.

And McCain;—that blundering, angry, blathering, left-leaning doofus. A man without a clue as to what he wants to do with or for the country, but who pretends to want to lead it. It makes me queasy, just thinking about it.

I DID get my wish, though. With Thompson and Giuliani out of the election, at least there's a chance that Conservatives could unite around Romney—but that would have had to have been before Florida, where it would have helped, not now, where it may be too late.

With any luck, McCain will blow a gasket before next Tuesday.

Seminaries of literature and the sciences

This came tossed over our transom window this morning, sent from The Patriot Post's e-mail service, the Founders' Quote Daily:

"Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people, being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties, and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in the various parts of the country, and among the different orders of people, it shall be the duty of legislators and magistrates... to cherish the interest of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them."
-- John Adams (Thoughts on Government, 1776)

Interesting quote from Adams. A good legislative concern for the seminaries of literature and science would also include, for the founders, the popular government taking an interest in the curriculum being taught there. No one ever erected a wall of seperation between the government and the colleges and universities...