It Can't Happen Here, Right?

My, we now have quite a serious problem here in America. A candidate who faced difficult odds, John McCain, has added somebody to his ticket that many Americans, for thoroughly understandable and honorable reasons, feel excited about.

After all, in the whole long history of this country, only once before was a woman nominated for Vice-President, and that was Geraldine Ferraro in 1984. I happened to spend some time in Washington, D.C., that election year, and I was appalled to be present at a gathering of some of this country's leading investigative reporters as they salivated at the prospect of destroying her candidacy through the shady connections of her husband, John Zaccaro.

I tell this story because I left that evening feeling nauseated about how biased our national press was -- not against conservatives, but against women.

So, to my friends who continue to believe in the fantasy that the national mainstream press has a liberal bias, I can tell you that, even if it does, which I doubt, a far deeper bias has been against women candidates.

So, all the chickens are coming home to roost. Now, when all of these biases are swept aside, what are we doing as a people? The polls favor the McCain-Palin ticket. So let's take this straight-on. America could well end up with a person a heartbeat away from the President whose record suggests she could be one of the most dangerous leaders to attain power in the history of this country.

To my many friends of a conservative bent, let me entreat you to take a deep breath and evaluate who this nominee really is. Do you want her as your Commander-in-Chief? If your answer is yes, I would submit that you are a racist, pure and simple. Because what you are really saying is that you can't accept a far more qualified black man.

That, of course, is what this election is all about. If you click on the title of this post, you can explore how Germany and Italy turned into the most dangerous countries on earth in the '30s.

Those who ignore the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it. That is what we are witnessing, my friends.

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