Ruth McClung Vs. Raul Grijalva : Monsoon Chiggers

Whether it's the Arizona CD7 race pitting challenger Ruth McClung against incumbent Raul Grijalva in 2010 or any other race in any other year, people who find a given political situation irritating treat it--all too often--as they would a case of monsoon chiggers. Now, some of you know about chiggers and some don't, so a word of explanation is in order.

Chiggers are the larval phase of tiny mites, about 1/150th of an inch long, that thrive in hot, humid areas of the southland. They're generally too small to see, but a few days after they chomp down, you know it. The itching can be poison-ivy quality. Thankfully, they don't actually burrow under the skin (it was long thought they did), but build "open turret" feeding tubes through the skin to get at your (*insert bloodsucking vampire laugh here*) blood.

A few weeks ago, I found out about them firsthand. Or firstankle, if we're trying to be precise.

This is our second summer in southern Arizona, though my wife raised her kids in the area and knew the drill long before we met. Last year was pretty dry. We suffered no chigger attacks. This year the rains came with greater enthusiasm...and we were reminded what the term "monsoon chiggers" can mean around here.

But any voter who thinks of politics in "chigger terms" is making a grave mistake. Those who go to the polls--maybe only for Presidential elections, which many do--tend to believe that a corrupt or arrogant U.S. Representative or Senator will simply do his or her "chigger thing", suck a bellyful of taxpayer blood, and that in the end (like with chiggers), This Too Shall Pass.

Trouble is, it won't pass. Not without help. Not without citizen vigilance and action of the highest sort. Without that, it will simply get worse. And worse. And worse, until our American way of life is gone the way of the passenger pigeon.

Because an ultra-Progressive, turbo-Liberal pol like Rotten Raul Grijalva is not just a juvenile arthropod looking for a free meal; he's a smallpox-infected blanket held close in a hard winter by unsuspecting Native Americans.

Fortunately, Ruth McClung is the antidote.

It's standard practice for me to Google the subjects of my hubs. Who wouldn't? Tonight, though, a key but previously overlooked statistic fairly leaped from the pages to slap me upside the head.

There seems to be a lot more interest in Ruth McClung than in Raul Grijalva out there right now. Here's an Arizona two-step you can learn in a matter of seconds which is a real Google eye opener:

Step #1: Google Raul Grijalva. Number of results: Aproximately 125,000. Not bad for a mere member of the U.S. House, eh?

Step #2: Google Ruth McClung. Number of results: Approximately 1,640,000...and she's the challenger!

Whoa.

Of course, those results indicate the relative number of people writing about Ruth and/or Raul, not the number of people searching for them. It's definitely not a perfect indicator.

But it is an indicator.

Maybe it's just because Ruth is prettier?

We live in a warring Universe. In essence, we all kill to survive, be our victims mild-eyed mammals or mere grains of wheat. Unfortunately, there are those who do everything in their power to take that killing beyond the mere slaughtering of critters or plants for food. They attempt to crush our God-given liberties, to leach them away almost invisibly, to deny them life (and us Liberty) in a thousand different ways.

And as Sun Tzu states in his classic treatise on The Art Of War, "...a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life."

We face more than a turning point on November 2, 2010. We face, quite literally, the resurrection or the extinction of our Constitutional Republic. I do believe we will emerge victorious, that the morning of November 3 will see the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate both wrested from POR (Pelosi-Obama-Reid) control once and for all. Arizona CD7 is a virtual poster child for the struggle we face, though, and cannot be ignored for many reasons...one of which is that nowhere else in the nation is the choice any clearer than between these two candidates. On the left, Congressional Progressive Caucus co-chair, the man who called for a boycott of his own state for personal political reasons. On the right, conservative Ruth McClung, the clear-minded lady with a degree in physics and a love for the U.S. Constitution.

The choice is as clear as that between, say, Sarah Palin and Barack Obama.

McClung 2010.