Primaries divide. This year, it appears they have the potential to divide even more than normal. Some Conservatives are even frazzled to the point that they are starting to sound as emotionally as irrational as many on the left are daily. But more on that near the end.

Obama and Billary are looking to take this possibly to the Convention. Super Delegates, and the Florida and Michigan delegates, which are diluted and standing out due to the States moving their primaries against the will of the DNC and other party powers that be, may come into play. The problem of Florida and Michigan has been looming since late spring 2007, and the Dems still have not solved their own in house problem surrounding this issue. This lack of ability to control their own sandbox begs the question: If they can’t control their “own” messes, how the hell do you expect them to run a world that is NOT in their control and NOT cooperative with them?

Obama is doing what I have said several times on here was very possible… he is gaining momentum, and I think his eventual nomination is becoming imminent. He is giving booming speeches, orating from on high without a single smile, acting as though he is wielding a sceptre of might over the masses. He is the perfect ‘figure’ for an emotional (hate and hope) driven left wing Democrat party. Bill Clinton was right- he is, in fact, becoming a fairy tale.

Forget the fact that he has only a little less actual “in-office” experience than Clinton, and just spend some time listening to his platitudes. He is a master at speaking in colorful catchy phrases that have little defined meaning but sound like manna from heaven to the rabid far left who feed more on style than substance. He has scoured from much of his rhetoric any sense of controversy, which, without deeper scrutiny (something you cannot expect from kool-aid drinkers) really mean either nothing, or everything.

Some examples:

1. “We’ve got a series of very important decisions to make, and we have the opportunity to make them, not as Democrats, not as Republicans, but as Americans. And it’s that promise that I’m most excited about.
2. “We can do better,” and, “America is ready for a new set of challenges.”
3. “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
4. “We have to acknowledge the progress we made, but understand that we still have a long way to go. That things are better, but still not good enough.”

And some real philosophical gems:

1. “No one is pro-abortion.”
2. “All across the world, in every kind of environment and region known to man, increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it’s here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster.”
3. “This notion that’s peddled by the religious right - that they are oppressed is not true. Sometimes it’s a cynical ploy to move their agenda ahead. The classic example being that somehow secularists are trying to eliminate Christmas, which strikes me as some kind of manufactured controversy.”

I have to say that Obama’s sweeping platitudes and frightening political perspectives makes me look at Ron Paul in a different light altogether. While many of Paul’s positions are not those I espouse, at least he is direct and clear about defining them.

(No- this is not a change of heart on Paul on my part. I just have to find a way to work Mr. 3% into posts so I can get the search engine traffic his name generates… he IS worth something, after all…)

Should Obama win the Presidency, here is what will happen:

1. The MOST liberal Senator on the Hill will pull troops out of Iraq as soon as possible- and his “as soon as possible” is not the same as the rest of the resonable world’s “as soon as possible”. This will leave a vacuum for Al Qaeda and Iran to run their course.
2. He will begin negotiating with the most radical leaders of the Middle East and the rest of the world. Kim Jong Il, Ahmadinejad, Hezbollah, and King Abdallah, to name a few. They won’t be just talking at Columbia University, they will be in the White House. Hell, I bet Hugo Chavez comes for supper.
3. He WILL appoint very liberal judges.
4. Your taxes will again, go up.

This is very concerning to those of us who are conservative, but even more concerning is the fact that many conservatives are screaming to high heaven that they will abandon ship if McCain is the nominee. These folks keep moaning the mantra that it is about “principle” and how could you criticize us for that?

Here is how I can criticize you for that. If you stick to your principles to the point that you:

1. make Iraq a failure
2. allow the US to start having one on one relationships with terrorist States
3. allow for the appointment of more Ginsburg’s
4. and insure that your taxes will go up in support of more big government tit program…

…then you are a danger to your OWN principles, and therefore, you are not exercising WISDOM.

If there is one thing that people of maturity and reason should understand in this world it is that perfect is rarely possible, and when it is not, “good enough” sometimes makes more sense than making a stand.

Anyone who would vote in any manner that allows a President Obama or Clinton II is betraying their own principles and their fellow countrymen with similar principles. If your hatred for McCain is such that you cannot see that he is in fact a Conservative, I suspect your emotions are still overriding your logic circuits, and recommend you take a look at this again when you deal with the reality of what the alternative you have.

Here is another Obama quote, one that makes sense, and applies to the situation that some Conservatives find themself in:

“If we aren’t willing to pay a price for our values, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all.”

The price that needs to be paid by those who would vote for someone other than the GOP nominee, out of disgust based on ‘principle’, is a price of “humility”; “sacrifice”; “devotion”; and compromise for the greater good.

Your principles will be meaningless for the next four years (hell, even a lifetime, if you think about the Supreme Court) if your lack of wisdom allows for the Obama fairy tale to come true….