I was thinking this morning, as I scraped the ice from my windshield, maybe there is something to global warming after all. I don't remember Southern Illinois being this cold in April. Perhaps climate change is a real problem. My charitable instincts are urging me to send a check to Al Gore to help him pay for his carbon offsets (which he apparently buys from his own company) so he can pursue the noble crusade with even more vigor!
Later today I was thinking about the potential ramifications of Rudy Giuliani winning the Republican nomination for President. I was trying to determine if I could cast my vote for him with a clear conscience. After all, wouldn't he be far better than Hillary "bringing socialism back" Clinton, Barack Hussein Obama, or the spirit channeling personification of the reason health insurace costs are so high (John "the hair" Edwards?) My initial response was, yes, he would be undoubtedly better than any liberal candidate.... but there is still a problem. How important is the abortion issue? To me that is something I can't get past. I gave myself a simple test to determine if the abortion issue would preclude me from voting for Giuliani. I asked myself what issue could be chosen as more important than abortion. If there was an issue more important maybe I could vote for him based on a conservative view he holds on that particular issue and hope he only appoints constructionist justices as he has indicated he would. No issue I could think of met the importance criteria. At the risk of sounding like John Edwards channeling the spirit of a dead child to win a lawsuit, I thought, "If the millions of babies who were killed in the womb could be polled, what issue would take precedence over abortion?" My test resulted in the realization that while I admire some aspects of Giuliani's character, I cannot cast a vote for anyone that refuses to protect the most innocent of people.
This post is the beginning of what I hope to be a way of communicating what I see as important to anyone who cares to read it.
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