“Often elections in this country are fought within the margins of small differences. This one will not be. We are arguing about hugely consequential things. Whomever the Democrats nominate, they would govern this country in a way that will, in my opinion, take this country backward to the days when government felt empowered to take from us our freedom to decide for ourselves the course and quality of our lives; to substitute the muddled judgment of large and expanding federal bureaucracies for the common sense and values of the American people; to the timidity and wishful thinking of a time when we averted our eyes from terrible threats to our security that were so plainly gathering strength abroad. It is shameful and dangerous that Senate Democrats are blocking an extension of surveillance powers that enable our intelligence and law enforcement to defend our country against radical Islamic extremists. This election is going to be about big things, not small things. And I intend to fight as hard as I can to ensure that our principles prevail over theirs.”

John McCain  

John McCain realizes the threats we face from radical jihad. But he also realizes that he needs conservatives to support him if he has a chance to win in November. And we need him if we have any hope of succeeding in the War in Iraq and the greater War on Terror. Even if we conservatives disagree and in many cases strongly disagree with Sen. McCain, we can agree that the greatest threat we face to our security is from Islamic Radicals whose ultimate goal is our annihilation.

We have been kept safe these past seven years because we have a president who realizes the threats we face and he meets them. He makes decisions based on what is best for America and not based on the latest opinion polls. If he was concerned about remaining popular, like the president who preceded him, we would have ended the War on Terror years ago and we would be the laughing stock of the world. But there is something more important than that, we would have proven the terrorists correct in there assumptions. They believed that we would fold under the pressure of 9/11 and even if we did react it would be a reaction based more on appearances than an actual retaliation.

President Bush’s greatest accomplishment has been re-establishing our resolve as a nation. He shocked the terrorists. They tested us during the 1990s and we never responded, in a real way, to their attacks. They said we were a “paper tiger”. They were not expecting President Bush. They were not expecting him to take the fight to them and keep us in offense in the war on terror. But more than that, with each passing year as we get further and further away from September 11, 2001, we have the tendency to want to go back to the ‘90s when we did not have to worry about terrorism. We worried about the President’s latest sex scandal. We ignored the growth of terrorist organizations for eight years.

Everything changed on 9/11. The ‘90s were gone in an instant. We were living in a bubble, in a world that really did not exist. And we were outraged when those towers were hit. “How could this happen?” we asked ourselves. It happened because we ignored the warning attacks, the test strikes, which occurred during the Clinton Administration. We felt that if we ignored them they would go away.