John McCain
the best choice
for president

IT IS DIFFICULT to imagine anybody voting for an untested, untried, unknown Sen. Barack Obama on Nov. 4. His lack of experience makes him a weak choice. It is even more difficult to imagine anybody, when offered the tested, tried and deeply vetted Sen. John McCain as an alternative, who would not vote for the Arizona Republican.

McCain simply is the best choice; the only choice that makes sense for the nation, and especially for Alaska. For decades, he has served his country with distinction, even at the risk of his life, and would bring to the nation’s top job the experience, knowledge and ability to work across the aisle for the nation’s good. He understands the Constitution and is able to grasp the concept of a free market economy and the America most of us know and cherish.

Obama, with his myopic “spread the wealth” economic vision . . .

(cont'd from front page) too often reminds us of Jimmy Carter, and many of us remember the economic disaster of his administration. As an example of Obama’s expertise, during the recent meltdown on Wall Street, he stood mostly on the sidelines and hemmed and hawed and offered virtually nothing of substance. Some saw the performance as inspiring. It gave us the shudders.

An Obama administration — aided by an unchecked Democratic Congress and Senate — would end tax cuts, attack the Second Amendment, increase taxes, push ANWR off the table, end offshore drilling and turn the Supreme Court into a leftist playschool. It will leave us with much less money and much more government.

None of this should be a surprise. In truth, Obama has been little more than a bit player in Washington in his short time in office. As president he would not be able to hide and vote “present” when a crisis rears its head. He will have to make hard choices; choices that by experience he is not prepared to make.

Some of those choices could mold the America of the future. For instance, his Supreme Court choices. Can you imagine? In a few years, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg would seem a moderate. Or Obama’s pushing for prohibitively expensive universal health care. His political party’s history in these matters is grim. It is no wonder that some say he better understands the mortgage crisis, and he should. It was his party, under Bill Clinton, that planted its seeds by forcing institutions to issue loans to those unable to repay them under the theory that everyone must have a house.

McCain’s detractors say they do not like him mostly because he is too much a Republican and they make a great deal of fuss about his running mate, Sarah Palin. Silly. Either of them would be better than Obama, on virtually any level.

And something else. When McCain needs advice on prickly issues, he likely would turn to Republicans who have this nation’s best interests at heart. Who would Obama turn to? Bill Ayers?

There is no better choice. We urge you to vote the McCain-Palin ticket for the good of the country and Alaska.