As the general election begins to sprawl its way through history, it is obvious the race is between two political blocs representing two distinct philosophies: the Social-Marxist wing of the Democrat Party and the moderate –liberal wing of the Republican Party.  Moderate and Blue Dog Democrats have to decide if they can stomach the Socialist-Marxist faction of their party. Conservative Republicans have to decide what is more important: supporting an 85% conservative McCain or their 100% conservative political philosophy.

The Socialist-Marxist wing promotes nationalizing health care (Clinton-Obama) and oil (Maxine Waters) industries. This wing of the party is funded primarily by George Zoros, a committed Socialist-Marxist and the “Goldfinger” of extremist politics. Democrats wanted to make Iraq the issue of the campaign. Since the demonstrated success of the surge, the Democrats have turned to the economy. However, escalating oil and gas prices have taken the wind out of their sails.

Democrats banned off-shore drilling thirty years ago and refuse to allow any drilling in Anwar.  As a result, American oil companies have neither explored or drilled domestically nor built any new refineries in the last thirty years. As long as prices were lower the Democrats escaped major criticism.  The “perfect storm” arrived as a confluence of escalating oil and gas prices, and the Democrat move to shift food resources, e.g., corn, into alternative energy. This shift of food resources into alternative energy turned into a fiasco: the price per bushel of corn increased by 400% over two years; the decreased corn, wheat, etc., translated into higher food costs.  Coupled with increasing gas and oil prices, plus the increasing subsidy of ethanol, the Democrats have created a firestorm that could cost them the election

The Republicans have an opportunity to claim national security as the prime campaign issue. National security not only includes the war on terror but also energy and food prices.  The last Democrat to be strong on national security was John Kennedy.  The question for John McCain, the presumptive Republican candidate, is how he uses the topic of national security (to include energy and food prices) and who he picks as his Vice-Presidential candidate.