John McCain apparently has decided that he has the good fortune of being the No Can Lose candidate in this year’s presidential race.  Unlike many of his other views, he is probably correct in this assumption.

The reason is the Democrats.  B. Hussein Obama, once thought a rising affirmative action star candidate has begun his fall back to earth that will likely end in total disintegration long before November.  It may be too late for Democrat Super Delegate buyer remorse and a switch to Hillary Clinton because Obama supporters might burn down Denver.  The Democrats, or more accurately, move on dot org, has positioned themselves in a no win situation.  By summer, realistic Democrats will be straining to protect down ticket candidates for Congress from the pending landslide at the top – against Obama.

Nevertheless, thank you Democrats for not vetting your candidate and giving us yet another problem and potential civil unrest by nominating a Harvard educated raciest with radical socialistic leanings.  Obama is sure to be crushed like a beer can in the general election and raise greater tensions in the Black community at the same moment America struggles economically because of decades of Democrat pandering to whacko environmentalists.

What bothers me more as a former Congressional staff member and classically trained political scientist is the direction of all this.  Since Republicans will nominate John McCain, the glass appears about three quarters empty for conservatives and about half full for liberals.  This means that about half the cockeyed liberal agenda will continue unfettered by McCain and few, if any, of the conservative values, like the Constitution, will remain by his departure. For the first time since the Great Depression, our nation faces a serious decline.  Not so much due to the minute concerns facing us, rather by the growing emphasis on government.

The question as to the difference between the Parties is academic.  Republicans and Democrats are in the same bed together with merely a sheet between them. One perhaps inclines to the left edge while the other toward the middle, and McCain more and more to the left.

The list of bad ideas dribbling from John McCain is too numerous to mention.  The best that can be said is he is not as bad as the alternatives.  That was the same rational to twice elect George W. Bush, who is no conservative.  Under George Bush, the federal government size, power and spending has swollen to epic proportions.  The list of aggressions to the constitutional limitations against Bush is enormous.  McCain, a life long government employee and legislator with no management experience, is unlikely, with his liberal friends controlling the House and Senate, to have much interest in constraining growing government power.

The term Maverick simply means McCain is no more a conservative than George Bush and that real conservatives therefore cannot trust McCain. Traditional conservatives evaluate questions and solutions based on the founding documents to see if they fit within the limits of government power and/or if they impose on individual liberty that springs from our Constitution.  Unlike Liberals that feel they can perfect socialism by expanding government, plowing over constitutional limitations and individual rights, McCain wants to go either way when the question suits him.  At the same time, latter day Republicans (not conservatives) have abandoned constitutional limitations in order to pursue social, religious and even war agendas.  Together, Republicans from the right and Democrats from the left are beating down Constitutional protections and limits which threaten the very Republic in a game of partisan one upmanship.                                                                                   

Since either Party is merely interested in electing partisans to build power, it is high time that The People remind our public servants not to check the Constitution at the door and that We, the People, are in charge.  That which makes America special is not the power of our government; rather it is the limited power of our government and the personal liberty of our people.  States are not mere provinces of an all powerful central authority, but the union and source of limited federal powers.  Further, as articulated in the 9^th and 10^th Amendments, all powers not prohibited or delegated to the federal government are reserved to the States and the People.