UNDECIDED? STAY HOME NOVEMBER 4TH 09/06/2008 Over the past few days the pundits have been expounding on whether or not John McCain’s and Sarah Palin’s respective speeches at the Republican National Convention would be enough to satisfy the “all-important” swing voters. You know, those voters who are on the fence. Those people who have not yet decided which candidate they will vote for in November. They may have been die-hard Hillary fans, not completely indoctrinated into the cult of Barackianity, but also not willing to vote for a conservative even if he were promising to raise taxes and kill unborn babies. Or they may simply be brain-dead morons who have no idea who’s running for president at all             Everyone seems to think that the key to winning this election is to entice those voters too preoccupied with who will be the next American Idol to make a decision about such small trivialities as who will be the leader of the free world for the next four years. Entice them with what, pray tell? What will be the deciding factor in getting John Q Undecided to vote for either candidate if he has not already decided who is the best person for the job? If a few well-spoken words are all it takes for you to decide who will run this country for the next four years, please for your own sake and that of your country, stay home November 4th.             Convention speeches are fine, but they serve only one real purpose: to strengthen your base - your core of voters - and give them a chance to come together and hear, in broad terms, what direction you plan to lead the country in over the next few years. And if your silver-tongued rhetoric entices a few heretofore undecided voters to give you a chance come November, all the better. But convention speeches are not designed to allow undecided voters to form an opinion of a candidate based on hard facts, they are designed to stir the crowd into a veritable frenzy to prove to the rest of the American public watching on television at home that your candidate truly is the politician they’ve been looking for their entire lives; ‘why just look at how much the thousands of p eople in that stadium love him, he must be good for America’.             And for many of those swing-voters that’s as far as it will go. They will be far too busy and certainly too bored to follow the upcoming debates. And that’s exactly what Obama is counting on. Because he knows he’ll blow it in the debates. Why? Because he doesn’t understand the issues. You see, over the past year and a half, the press has been so excited over the fact that we could have the first African American president that they didn’t stop to think about whether they had the right African American president. You know, one who won’t sell out America to the highest bidder, break our already strained economy, create greater foreign oil dependence, tax small businesses until they can no longer employ honest hard-working Am ericans, spend like a college student in a liquor store on spring break, and grow the government to unprecedented proportions. But most people won’t hear about that because they’ll be too busy catching up on what’s happening on Desperate Housewives to catch the debates.             The debates are where we’ll get to know all that’s important about each of the candidates. We’ll learn about Barack Obama’s socialist ideology, his love of big government, his belief in free healthcare at the expense of the American taxpayer, and most of all, his utter ineptitude as a leader. We’ll learn about the direction John McCain intends to lead thee country and just how he intends to do it. The debates aren’t about what any of the candidates have done in the past, but what they intend to do in the future. Not how good they look in front of the camera (though Richard Nixon proved that appearance is certainly important in a debate) but how they intend to face the issues. There will be no cue cards, no tele-prompters, just the candidates facing off against one another, armed with cold hard facts.              Over the next two months the facts will be laid out for all who are willing to see. But few swing-voters will see those facts. They saw all they need to know about the candidates at the conventions. They are not overly bothered with facts. If you don’t already know where you stand on an issue enough to be bothered to find out where the candidates stand on that same issue, or if a few flowery words are enough to get you to renounce your beliefs, then you have no business voting in the first place. For the love of God, stay home November 4th. No one will fault you for it. We didn’t want or need your vote anyway. I’d sooner my candidate lose by ten well-informed votes than win by a million uninformed votes   Alright, that’s not entirely true. In fact, it’s not true at all. I’d rather Barack Obama not be elected president at any cost, because he practices dangerous politics: bigger government, more spending, less individual rights, energy dependence, and tax, tax, tax. But if you’d rather vote on style and image, then by all means…stay home November 4th. -FreddieBanjo  Reporting from the corner seat at The Maindy Pub, Cardiff

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