Google Bomb

Some of the stuff that I comment on, or propose, is at odds with things that John McCain has said in the recent past. That's because while I am interested in the present, I'm primarily about the future - be it next week, next month, or next year. Conservative principles are a proven commodity. They've won Presidencies for the Republicans, and also majorities in the House and Senate. If McCain decides to jettison some of those principles in the hope of getting good news coverage, that's his problem. The media never has been, is not, and never will be your friend, Senator McCain. They just used you as an effective foil against President Bush.

If some of what I (and many other like myself) write about and propose is counter to what John McCain is out there talking about, so be it. If he's smart and wants to win, he and his campaign will listen. If not, he has only himself to blame. In other words, I'm kind of talking past McCain. Don't get me wrong, I hope he wins. But the reason why I hope he wins is not because I believe in everything he says, it's because I believe that the alternative would be disastrous for American and the world. We conservatives played our "spite" games with Ross Perot in 1992, and it gave us Bill Clinton and his minions - and the eternal coarsening of American politics. We don't need to go there again. And we don't have to - I think that we can build a solid case for people to vote against Barack Obama's based on his proposed policies and 'solutions'. For when you scratch the surface of Obama even a little bit, it's readily apparent that there's no "there" there.

Having said that, I'd like to call everyone's attention to this article in Computer World: Blogger launches 'Google bomb' at McCain. Subtitled "Effort aims to boost Google rankings of negative news stories about Sen. John McCain", it's the story of Chris Bowers of OpenLeft and his attempt (which will succeed, by the way - he's done it before) to game Google. He's highlighting negative McCain stories that include some rather interesting quotes from the candidate himself on issues from tax cuts to the just passed GI Bill.

I don't have the technical know-how to either understand this, or do anything about it. But I trust that people on our side are counter-Google Bombing now that this is in the open (with positive McCain articles and negative stories about Obama)? If not, someone had better get started. We have enough problems already...