We have published many articles and reports about Senator McCain, Senator Clinton and Senator Obama. We have not come out and actually said why we support Senator McCain over Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

Well here is a partial list of reasons. We hope you will comment on our take on issues and present your own ideas.

1. Senator McCain will make the Bush tax cuts permanent and cut the size and growth of government at the Federal level. Senators Clinton and Obama have both said they will let the Bush tax cuts expire. Senators Clinton and Obama have proposed at least $600 billion in new or expanded government programs when they take office.

2. Senator McCain has never requested an ear mark and said he will veto any bill with an ear mark in it. Senators Clinton and Obama have used ear marks extensively, with Senator Obama obtaining an earmark in 2007 for the hospital that his wife works at, right after the hospital gave her a raise from $190K to $300K.

3. Senator McCain will appoint strict constructionist judges to the Supreme Court. Senators Clinton and Obama will appoint judges that make public policy from the bench, something that goes completely against our constitution and the role of the judiciary.

4. Senator McCain understands the global war against radical Islam and the imperative to win in Iraq and Afghanistan. The consequences of losing and pulling out are catastrophic. He wants to end the fighting quickly but continue to have a presence in Iraq for the long term to stabilize the region. Senators Clinton and Obama simply want to pull out, regardless of the consequences or implications.

5. Senator McCain will be a very formidable negotiator and free trader. Senators Clinton and Obama want to scrap NAFTA and are anti-free trade. Senator Obama has said he will meet with dictators and rogue leaders with out preconditions.

6. Senator McCain wants to fix the economy by allowing it to right itself. He is for cutting regulation, lowering taxes on businesses, funding research and entrepreneurship. Senators Clinton and Obama want more regulation, higher corporate taxes, they want to tax profits and are for more government control.

7. Senator McCain wants to provide all Americans access to heath care via affordable, transferable, and cheap health care insurance. He wants to give individuals a $5,000 tax credit like we do to corporations to allow them to buy their heath coverage. He is for a market based system and getting government and insurance companies out of the way of the medical decision making process. Senators Clinton and Obama want socialized medicine, which has been proven not to work.

8. Senator McCain is pro-gun and pro-life. Senators Clinton and Obama are anti-second Amendment and both support late term abortions with Senator Obama supporting the killing of babies who survive an abortion even if they are out of the womb.

We strongly disagree with Senator McCain, Senator Clinton and Senator Obama on two issues.

1. Human caused global warming. Scientific research has now proven that CO2 emissions from the burning of fossil fuels are not the cause of global warming. The Global Warming science has been debunked. Global warming is no longer a scientific theory it is a political movement much like we saw with DDT. The science behind the DDT scare was debunked however the political movement went on and it killed tens of millions of innocent men, women and especially children mostly in Africa. We are seeing the same thing with the global warming political movement and ethanol. People are starving so we can feel good about filling up our SUVs.

2. Torture. Senators McCain, Clinton and Obama want waterboarding taken off the table as a method of interrogation. We believe strongly that waterboarding must remain on the table as the "nuclear option". The President must have the authority in specific cases to personally authorize our CIA to waterboard an individual or individuals for high value, time sensitive intelligence. For example, should we capture Osama Bin Laden the President must have the authority to waterboard him, if deemed necessary.

That it our say. What say you?

In their editorial, "The honor and the burden" the Sarasota Herald-Tribune just can't keep from taking the opportunity to hate President Bush using the pretense of honoring the death of an American hero.

I do not know if any member of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune editorial board has ever lead men and women in combat or served in a military leadership position, other than Command Sergeant Major USMC (Ret.) John Annis, or had someone under their command killed.

Well we have. We can tell you that the burden felt at the loss of a fellow soldier by those non-commissioned officers and commissioned officers in the chain of command lasts a life time.

General Peter Pace, USMC (Ret.), former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, traveled to the Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C. immediately after his retirement ceremony on October 1, 2007. When he arrived at the wall he went to the name of Guido Farinaro where he stood for a while, then bent down to place a small card (pictured above) against the Wall. This card said,"For Guido Farinaro, USMC. These are yours, not mine. With love and respect, your platoon leader. Pete Pace."

This is the life long burden all military combat leaders carry.

When Vice President Cheney said, "He's the one who has to make the decision to commit young Americans." and bears the greatest burden. He was right.

Of all the Commanders in our Armed Forces the Commander in Chief bears the greatest burden of all. President Bush was crying when he presented the Medal of Honor to the parents of Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael Monsoor.

We know the President will never stop crying in his heart as he remembers the 4,000 plus men and women who have paid the ultimate price in the defense of our great nation.

We cry with the Monsoor family, with his chain of command, and especially President Bush. But we also are thankful and proud of those like Michael who volunteered to keep us safe.

We are ashamed of the Herald-Tribune and the editorial board for using his death as a cheap political tool to attack President Bush. That is truly hateful and sickening.

We absolutely loved the Sarasota Herald-Tribune's editorial, "Another election mess".

The editorial is a great analysis of the train wreck about to happen in the Democratic Party. We will not go over the gory details of how the Democratic National Committee (DNC) disenfranchised Florida's and Michigan's voters by stripping them of their delegates. Reams have been written about that by us and others.

What is really great to watch is how the Democrats, the party of every person votes and every vote is counted, is trying to figure out the right way to allow the Democratic voters in Florida and Michigan to have a "re-do".

Florida Democratic primary voters already cast their ballots. As the Herald-Tribune points out, "Seven weeks ago, more than 57,000 Democrats in Sarasota and Manatee counties voted for Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. Statewide, another 1.4 million Democrats cast ballots in the presidential preference primary — one of Florida's highest-ever turnouts."

Note the "one of Florida's highest-ever turnouts". Not according to Al Sharpton. According to the New York Sun, "Laying the groundwork for a court battle that could divide the Democratic Party, the Reverend Al Sharpton is threatening to sue the Democratic National Committee if it counts Florida's primary results in the official presidential delegates tally." Reverand Sharpton is concerned that "some" voters did not go to the polls in Florida because their delegates would not count. Neat argument. We hope the law suit goes forward.

Sorry Hillary even though you won the Florida primary by 50% over Barack's 33% you can't count it. Hillary is disenfranchised along with the 50% of Democratic primary voters in Florida for the sake of "some" who did not go to the polls.

So now comes the talk of a re-do mail in ballot. Not so fast. Senator Carl Levin of Michigan told ABC News that there is a "security issue" with a mail-in ballot. "How do you make sure that hundreds of thousands, perhaps a million or more ballots can be properly counted and that duplicate ballots can be avoided?" Mr. Levin has vivid memories of how absentee ballots have routinely been abused in Detroit and other cities by unscrupulous candidates.

In Florida, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Miami has her own issues with a mail-in ballot. "It's fraught with problems and now is not the time to be experimenting when we're talking about stakes this high," she says. "We still have very raw nerves from the 2000 recount."

For a party that tends to pooh-pooh concerns about voter fraud, it's refreshing to see a few key Democrats alert to the problems of having ballots distributed and handled outside the supervision of election officials.

By the way. The Sarasota Herald-Tribune tries to pin this mess on the Republican led Florida legislature for voting to move the primary date up. What they forget to tell you is that our very own Sarasota Representative Keith Fitzgerald, who is a Democrat, voted for the legislation. Keith is now going around town trying to explain his vote, saying part of the bill was the elimination of touch screen machines in Florida. The legislation would have passed without Keith's vote.

This is fun to watch. More coming soon.

There is a great article in the Aspen Times Weekly, "In election 2008, don't forget angry white men" written by Garry Hubbell. Here is a part of it.

There is one group no one has recognized, and it is the group that will decide the election: the Angry White Man. The Angry White Man comes from all economic backgrounds, from dirt-poor to filthy rich. He represents all geographic areas in America, from urban sophisticate to rural redneck, deep South to mountain West, left Coast to Eastern Seaboard.

His common traits are that he isn’t looking for anything from anyone — just the promise to be able to make his own way on a level playing field. In many cases, he is an independent businessman and employs several people. He pays more than his share of taxes and works hard.

The victimhood syndrome buzzwords — “disenfranchised,” “marginalized” and “voiceless” — don’t resonate with him. “Press ‘one’ for English” is a curse-word to him. He’s used to picking up the tab, whether it’s the company Christmas party, three sets of braces, three college educations or a beautiful wedding.

He believes the Constitution is to be interpreted literally, not as a “living document” open to the whims and vagaries of a panel of judges who have never worked an honest day in their lives.

The Angry White Man owns firearms, and he’s willing to pick up a gun to defend his home and his country. He is willing to lay down his life to defend the freedom and safety of others, and the thought of killing someone who needs killing really doesn’t bother him.

The Angry White Man is not a metrosexual, a homosexual or a victim. Nobody like him drowned in Hurricane Katrina — he got his people together and got the hell out, then went back in to rescue those too helpless and stupid to help themselves, often as a police officer, a National Guard soldier or a volunteer firefighter.

His last name and religion don’t matter. His background might be Italian, English, Polish, German, Slavic, Irish, or Russian, and he might have Cherokee, Mexican, or Puerto Rican mixed in, but he considers himself a white American.

He’s a man’s man, the kind of guy who likes to play poker, watch football, hunt white-tailed deer, call turkeys, play golf, spend a few bucks at a strip club once in a blue moon, change his own oil and build things. He coaches baseball, soccer and football teams and doesn’t ask for a penny. He’s the kind of guy who can put an addition on his house with a couple of friends, drill an oil well, weld a new bumper for his truck, design a factory and publish books. He can fill a train with 100,000 tons of coal and get it to the power plant on time so that you keep the lights on and never know what it took to flip that light switch.

Women either love him or hate him, but they know he’s a man, not a dishrag. If they’re looking for someone to walk all over, they’ve got the wrong guy. He stands up straight, opens doors for women and says “Yes, sir” and “No, ma’am.”

He might be a Republican and he might be a Democrat; he might be a Libertarian or a Green. He knows that his wife is more emotional than rational, and he guides the family in a rational manner.

He’s not a racist, but he is annoyed and disappointed when people of certain backgrounds exhibit behavior that typifies the worst stereotypes of their race. He’s willing to give everybody a fair chance if they work hard, play by the rules and learn English.

Are you an Angry White Man?