Ye Olde Blogge Politique

I haven't written lately because, well, I just haven't been all that fired up about anything. Life's pretty doggoned good right now. But. You know me. I love a race.

And Here Is Where I Finally Tick Off All My Readers Once and For All, Liberals And Conservatives Alike:

In my 25 years of voting, I have been all over the map in my viewpoints on every issue. Call me wishy-washy. Fine. I prefer the term "evolving". Whatever.

But I think I have finally nailed down my own personal political agenda. This is now my touchstone. My litmus test. My yardstick by which I will be measuring all candidates. Here it is:

1. Americans are incredibly smart, optimistic and yes, still nominally God-fearing people. We can figure out the solutions to all our problems ourselves. 2. As long as nobody blows us up first. 3. The candidates I percieve as least likely to get me blown up and my sons shot at will get my vote.

That's it. That's the only issue I am voting on. I do not care about a candidates' views on the economy, same-sex marriage, global warming, creationism, or (gasp) abortion. I do not care to hear a personal testimony. I do not care whether he or she has a temper, likes brussel sprouts, or once inhaled. I do not even care whose campaign button he or she once wore. I don't care about any of that stuff, unless it disproves my contingency #1 or impacts contingency #2.

Do I care about those other issues? Yes. But here's the deal, guys...we're solving none of those issues before November. And we have our own representatives that we can harrass and harangue about those views til the cows come home. In the meantime, we have a world that is littered with potential national security time bombs that must be navigated with brilliance and finesse.

Don't I want our leaders to be sound Christians? Yeah, that would be great, sure.

But let me enlighten you, here. Anybody can be taught to speak Christianese by a competent handler. Anybody can say the right things and even, in public, do the right things to make us think they are fine, upstanding and devout. The truth is that we are so far removed from personally knowing any of these people and their daily walks, that most of what they say should be taken only as that...what they say.

The hard truth of it is, folks, that if America is to be a Christian nation, it's because her Christian leaders are not the people we hire to do the national work, her Christian leaders are You and Me.