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As hard as it is to believe, there are people who are seriously asking if the disgraced New York governor, Eliot Spitzer, should resign his position. The argument is pretty much a throwback to the Clinton White House: “It was just sex, after all.” What a load of fertilizer.

Of course the man needs to needs to resign. Where are the morals of this country? Everything has changed since “Slick Willy” ruled the roost at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., hasn’t it? I know of a lot of liberals who, at that time, really downplayed the role of morals in our elected leaders. I said it then, and I’ll say it now, THEY ARE WRONG!

Moral leadership is desperately needed in this country. Yes, we did at least, and at last, get a moral president in George W. Bush. However, it can’t end there. We need governors, senators, congressmen, mayors, and maybe even dog catchers who have a code of morals by which they live.

I don’t remember the article, but one of the articles that will be in my new book, “Mr. Right Opinion-Unplugged and Unashamed: one man’s musings during perilous times in America’s history,” which will be available soon at authorhouse.com (shameless plug), talks about this very subject. About how drug use among teens went up after “Teflon Bill” admitted to smoking, but never inhaling, pot.

In this day and age it seems to be almost an epidemic among our “leadership.” Whether it be a senator looking for sex in a men’s restroom in an airport, a Louisiana congressman looking for a prostitute, a Louisiana congressman taking bribe money to secure a foreign country’s business, a president lying under oath about a sexual tryst which would later be revealed by, of all the things, a Clinton-stained blue dress, or the “F___ing Steamroller,” Eliot Spencer, who was going to get rid of unethical behavior in Albany, New York, the state’s capital seat.

And it most certainly is not just Democrats who have led us down this path of public corruption by way of “private behavior.” Republicans are just a guilty, at least on some levels, of the same thing. They have been caught up in sex scandals. And in fact, my own former Governor Ernie Fletcher was the target of a zealous, Democrat, Attorney General for a hiring scandal that broke during the Fletcher Administration.

After all, Fletcher, a Republican, ran on a platform of cleaning up the unethical behavior of his Democrat predecessor. It just goes to show you that greed and dirty politics is no respecter of persons. Greed is an insidious little critter that will sneak in at the very moment you let your guard down. Even the finest of us can have a lapse in judgment if we are not maintaining our spiritual life on a daily basis.

But alas, I regress. To answer the opening question: Yes. Spitzer most-definitely owes it to the state of New York, and to those who believed in his political aspirations, for his lewd, obnoxious behavior. Anyone who is put into a position of trust should be held to a higher standard than Joe Blow walking down the street.

Just as with Clinton, this has very little to do with “just sex.” I’ve heard all the spin in the last twenty-four hours. My favorite is that it was just a “sexual mistake.” Almost like an accident, like the man tripped, fell, and before you knew it, his chocolate bar was in her peanut butter. “It’s not like he laundered money or had any financial charges.” God knows that we can justify you corrupting our morals, as long as you leave our money in tact.

Again, what have we come to as a nation when we see this as “just sex?” Is there no honor and decency in keeping your vows in this country any more? Is there no honor in raising your THREE DAUGHTERS to think that prostitution is wrong. Or is it wrong for them, but OK for daddy? Mr. Top Cop who took down a couple of those rings himself as AG. I bet he told his girls that it was wrong then!

We need to start reclaiming this country. Reclaiming the values systems that led us to greatness. Demanding that our leaders do more than talk a good talk…they should also walk the talk. From the president down to the dog catcher, we need a standard moral code of conduct. And if you can’t live by that code…don’t even bothering applying!

My kids have been out of school because of the snow. A usual, this puts a temporary halt on my writing. However, when I was looking at my senator's re-election page, I saw this and wanted to post it here. Please sign the petition.

Thanks,
Mike

Well, it’s not late December, and it’s not back in ‘63, but I think it’s fair to say, “Oh What a Night.” Super Tuesday-Part Deux proved to be just that…super. The Republicans finally can say they have a nominee, and Democrats can say they have mass confusion.

Congratulations go out to Sen. John McCain for clinching the Republican nomination with a clean sweep of Tuesday’s primaries. And I guess it’s only fair to congratulate Gov. Huckabee for his hard-fought campaign. I know I called on him to drop out long ago, and I still think that would have been the thing to do. But he had every right to stay in until the end, and, driven by principle, he did just that.

On the other side, I don’t think it could get much more interesting. As I write this, Hillary has definitely won two states, and it looks like Texas will probably go her way. The spinners for Barack Hussein Obama are trying their best to downplay Hillary’s major wins by saying that the delegate count won’t shift much, and they are right about that.

However, Sen. Clinton has accomplished a much larger feat than winning a few delegates tonight. She has put the brakes on the momentum of the Obama express. Democrats are finally coming to their senses about Barack Hussein Obama and are starting to actually think about the substance, not just the flash, of their choices.

I believe it was me that said that Obama was copying a page straight out of the Democrat playbook: pie-in-the-sky promises with no way to actually achieve them. I told you, my fellow Opinionators, that his campaign was an aberration, and that it could not sustain itself. And while it is far from over, I truly think that, with seven weeks to go before the next major contest in Pennsylvania, Hillary has turned the “mojo” on Barack.

Please do not take my little push for Sen. Clinton as support; it is not. However, Barack Hussein Obama scares the devil out of me. The mere thought of someone as liberal as he, almost to the point of Communism, sitting in the Oval Offiice, literally makes me start mourning the death of America. I’m serious, he is that dangerous.

I don’t like very much at all about Hillary Rodham Clinton, but I don’t think she would destroy the country in under four years. I do think that Sen. Obama could, and most likely would.

And while I’m on the subject of support for Hillary, indulge me, please, as I do a little commentary on one of “our own.” What in the world is wrong with Ann Coulter? I think this election cycle has literally put her over the edge. Short of Hitler becoming the Republican nominee, I would NEVER behave as she is now behaving.

I saw her today on Cavuto (I think) and heard more of the same unbelievable bile that she has been spewing lately. She was again saying that she would support the Democrat candidate in the general election if Sen. McCain is the Republican candidate. As I have stated previously, and will state again, that kind of rhetoric is childish and asinine. I find myself totally dumbfounded when I hear her speak these days.

She did say that if Mitt Romney were McCain’s running mate that she would probably vote the Republican ticket, because that would give Romney a better shot in 2012. I just can’t figure her out. If she is truly fighting for the conservative cause, what purpose does this silly talk possibly serve? Does she really think that Hillary Rodham Clinton or Barack Hussein Obama would be a more conservative president than John McCain? If so, she is delusional and needs psychiatric care immediately.

Once again I would like to point out Mr. Right Opinion’s mathematical equations. One Republican who decides not to vote at all in the general election = one vote for the Democrat (i.e. one less vote for the Republican). One Republican who chooses to actually vote for the Democrat = two votes for the Democrat (i.e. one less vote for the Republican, and one more vote for the Democrat).

Think about it, Republicans. Like him or not, Sen. McCain IS the Republican nominee for president in 2008. If you sit it out this time, or even worse, actually switch sides, you are helping either Obama or Clinton get the keys to the White House. Do you honestly think that America would be better served by one of them than by McCain? The answer is obvious.

All I can say to Ann Coulter, and to anyone of like mind, is that it’s time to grow up and stop acting like children. The stakes for our great nation have probably never been higher. I know Republicans could have done better in our choice. But, it is what it is, and we, as alleged adults, must accept the reality and stand behind our candidate.

During this never-ending primary presidential campaign season, most of the mainstream media, and bloggers, for that matter, seem to forget that there is a world outside of the United States that still spins. I know I am guilty. While compiling my new book, “Mr. Right Opinion-Unplugged and Unashamed,” I noticed that I have written very few articles in recent months that were not campaign related.

However, there is still a world out there spinning, and possibly out of control. The United Nations on Monday imposed a third round of sanctions against Iran for its failure to fully comply with U.N. demands of full disclosure and ceasing of its “peaceful” uranium enrichment program.

The obvious question to this new round of sanctions is: “Will it matter?” If history is any indication, the answer is a resounding “No!” After all, when the U.N. first imposed sanctions, Iran actually expanded its nuclear program. So, a second round of sanctions was imposed. The result? More Iranian defiance and yet another round of U.N. sanctions.

I guess one could try and be optimistic here and say that this round of sanctions targets not only military goods, but some civilian goods and services as well, potentially making them more effective. One could make the argument that we are not fighting against the French this time, as France’s president, Nicolas Sarkozy, is being credited for actually HELPING to sway countries to vote for the sanctions.

Still, one cannot help being troubled by the U.N.’s dismal record of doing more than making idle threats. They threatened Iraq for years with “serious consequences” if it did not fully comply with U.N. weapons inspectors. They never did, and the U.N. never followed through on its threats. It took a United States president with moral clarity and a little backbone to bring those consequences to bear.

And now one has to be careful about even considering that course of action, as we have seen what results inaccurate intelligence can bring about. While I’m still not convinced that biological weapons weren’t moved out of Iraq, and I am, in fact, quite sure they were, there were still failures of intelligence in the pre-war buildup.

And that fact has not been lost on the Iranians, nor the rest of the world. A U.N. report on the matter said that Iran claimed that new documents linking the rogue state to missile and explosive experiments were false. And right now, who can say there’s not at least a possibility that the Iranians are right?

I personally have no doubt that Iran has more on its nuclear agenda than just the peaceful energy plans that it claims. They have threatened to blow Israel off the map. They have denied that the holocaust ever took place, and they are sworn enemies of democracies in general.
However, given the intelligence failures leading up to Operation Iraqi Freedom, Western countries, and the United States in particular, have lost some measure of credibility on intelligence issues in the eyes of the international community. And, of course, the United Nations has zero credibility in anybody’s eyes that it will actually back up any threats of action.

As a matter of fact, not only is the U.N. notoriously impotent for not following through on its threats, it has actually been proven complicit in undermining its own policies. As evidence, one need look no further than the “oil for food” scandals in which senior U.N. officials were taking bribes to look the other way.

It will be interesting to watch these events unfold. Will Israel take matters into its own hands, as it did with Iraq in the eighties, and try to annihilate Iran’s nuclear facilities on its own? Will the U.N. actually follow through and force Iran to comply with the international mandates?

Only time will tell. However, one thing is clear: now is NOT the time to elect a president who will be weak on matters of national security. It is not the time for a President Hillary Rodham Clinton or Barack Hussein Obama. It IS time for a President John McCain. And, in my Right Opinion, a Vice President Romney.