When I arrived at my polling place, a church owned multi-use building, this evening I found that there were more than a dozen people in line in front of me. One of the election workers said it had been busy throughout the day. If my polling location here in small town central Ohio was any indication of the turn out in Ohio and America this was not a typical off year election. Later this evening someone commented that people were very upset with the Republicans in Ohio. I am upset as well, but not so upset that I would sit out the election or that I would vote for a party of death, doom, deceit, depravity, and for the party that denies the existence of evil or evil nations.
Sometimes it takes a foreigner to see what should be obvious to every American voter. Let me illustrate via an Agape Press item that I read this evening:
A Canadian-born columnist and author says a Democratic victory in today's congressional elections would send a message to many U.S. allies around the world. Mark Steyn says he has no doubt that "if the American people decide they want the United States Congress run by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, that will be seen allaround the world essentially as a repudiation of the entire war on terror." A Democratic-led Congress, he contends, "would be seen as a reward for a party that is profoundly unserious on national security issues." He describes the Democratic Party as a "September the 10th" party that refuses to recognize there is a problem. "And when they do speak out, if you're sitting in Singapore and India and other countries that are well disposed toward America, you would have to conclude that this nation simply lacks the belief in itself to win over the long term," says Steyn; "and that's very dangerous for America." Steyn recently released his new book, America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It.
I am hopeful that many new conservatives will be added to both the U.S. House and U.S. Senate and that there number would grow among the GOP members. I also am hopeful that the party of more conservatives will retain both houses of Congress. If not, the challenge would be to minimize the damage that Nancy Pelosi and/or Harry Reid would do over the next 2 years until the next election when once again we will have a chance to continue to move the ship of state ahead or to right the ship if the left wins the day today.
As important as the Senate and the House may be, some of the ballot issues are also going to be equally important in discerning the mind and mood of America. If any of the 8 marriage protection amendments, the Missouri embryonic stem cell research ballot issue, the Ohio casino gambling amendment, or the South Dakota Abortion ban fail, that will not be a good indication. It will show how far the morality of this country has declined.
In conclusion, I pray that God does not give us those politicians that we deserve, like Nancy or Harry or Sherrod, but would have mercy on us and continue to bless us with conservatives who in turn actually be real conservatives the next two years. We need conservatives who will be part of the solution to America's problems, moving away from a culture of death, standing the course toward winning the War on Terror in Iraq and elsewhere, putting an end to the deficit and deficit spending and who would not be tempted to increase the size of government, and who would not feel the need to tax us to death.
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