Posted on 09/13/2008 7:36:55 AM PDT by Schwarzeneger
Why I am voting for McCain over Obama
1) Economy/Taxes: McCain will tax the country less. Even if you believe Obama's tax plan (and that's a stretch because he has NEVER voted for a tax cut when given the chance in congress) Obam claims he will cut taxes on 81% of Americans, but he will raise taxes MORE than McCain overall. In other words Obamas tax plan raises more taxes overall than does McCain's. Where will Obama get his taxes from? From those making more. What Dems don't seem to understand is that most Americans are employed by small business. Many if not most of those are structured as S corps where the company’s income is in the owner’s name. The S corp. offers an advantage in many respects. However all the profits are shown up as income to the owner, even if he reinvests that the following year. It makes them look rich when perhaps they are not. But either way taxing them makes it more difficult for them to provide benefits or even to hire. It’s no stretch that raising taxes on these groups can and will slow the economy, and therefore slow the tax receipts. In other words you raise the tax on these guys and still take in fewer taxes. As a bonus you also slow down the economy and increase unemployment. We don't need this with a recession coming or here already. As far the tax cuts from Obama for the 81-95% of the families, it doesn't matter if you lose your job or your salary goes down or you lose benefits.
2) Security: McCain will protect the country better than Obama. Obama is green and has no record and no history of working with the Military. Obama talks a good game but essentially has a liberal record. He’s a large green scary unknown. He has zero international experience. Its true that Palin also has zero international experience, but Pain is NOT on the top of the ticket. We face a renewed Russian problem as well as terrorists both in and outside of our country. I trust that McCain is NOT A WIND TESTER on this. He has shown a willingness to stand up and do what is needed even when it is not popular (surge). He has provided CLEAR LEADERSHIP on this. Obama has not. Obama did stand up and say it was wrong to invade IRAQ which is now the popular stand, but I'm not so sure it was a wrong move, and I am sure that once committed we need to successfully finish the job, not hamstring our success with hindsight management. Obama has tempered his answers but I just don't trust him to follow through.
3) Conservative Judges- By far to me one of the largest problems we have in our culture is the undisciplined Judges who basically legislate from the bench. Judges have more power IMO than almost any other individuals. At the federal level the damage done by liberal judges who legislate from the bench has been catastrophic. It messes up the entire American system, since essentially the people's legislation gets ignored, and in many cases (like abortion) states are prohibited from implementing their own policies (the policies that those communities want). This is true for case of gun control, and government condemned use land etc. Nothing has more potential for subverting our rights than undisciplined federal judges. McCain is for appoint strict constructionist judges. Obama is definitely NOT. He hated for example Anton Scalia, and Clarence Thomas and basically all the conservative constructionist judges and has said so publicly. There will be several Supreme Court justices appointed this term. Conservative judges are safer as they resist implementing even conservative ideas if they are not specifically spelled out in the constitution.
3) Real Reform - McCain and Palin offer a real chance at true reform. McCain and Palin has shown that he/she will work even against their own party to reform the system. That means painful (to the DC insiders) changes which an insider like Biden would never do. They are beholden to the power brokers. McCain has shown that he can muster forces from both Democratic and Republic sides to get things done. Obama HAS NO SUCH record and Biden has the opposite record. The reform I'm talking about is NOT JUST earmarks. A radical change in our system, needs to take place which will restore our system back into a fairer system which reflects what is best for the country. McCain/Palin have a record, Obama and Biden do not.
4) Health Care- Although I am concerned about people not being covered and the high cost of Health Care, I see the liberal solutions basically bankrupting the system or turning into a worse system which essential gets rationed. This is a complex problem which needs REAL complex solutions. The Dems seem to want to give it away to everybody at any cost. This would be great if it really was possible, but practicality tells me this is irresponsible. I trust McCain more than Obama to enact responsible solutions to this problem while still maintaining the best health care in the world. McCain has more experience and more connections to get this job responsibly done.
5) Responsible free trade- We have structured this new "World Economy" in the Bush and mostly Clinton administration in such a way as to not benefit our people in the long run. Building up countries like China's infrastructure so that we can have cheap Wal-Mart spatulas. We now have to borrow money from China? What's wrong with this picture? Frankly both parties are at fault here. We need to get back to basics and create a system in which we maintain an economy which produces jobs and products here in the US at fair rates. Unions screwed themselves here and also helped create the problems. I'm afraid that Obama will not do anything about this. I'm not confident that McCain will do much about this but I think he has the most chance of changing these kinds of policies. We need free trade but it has to be responsible free trade and not the selling of America.
6) Culture Decay - Hollywood and our general culture has decayed to the point of no return IMO. There is no responsible leadership on the unbridled disgusting behavior and smutty crap that is coming out of Hollywood and the internet. It makes the job of parenting very difficult and is producing a warped culture. We haven't even begun to see the results of this irresponsible spewing. And its prevalent in this culture you can't avoid it unless you live in a cave. For example the PORN on the internet is overwhelming. And there is any easy solution that could aid parents and decent folks. A set of IP address in a certain range could be allocated where the smut merchants can have their sites and the range could be easily blocked. Current filter are all but useless. For example http://xxx.whateversite.com where the xxx set of IP adresses area located to the PORNO crowd. Software could easily block that set of addresses. Once put in place we would have to be serious about internationally blocking sites that don't comply. I think this is a serious problem. Also the Hollywood crowd needs to clean up their act. Irresponsible behavior like drug use, promiscuity and drunkenness need to be punished/discouraged and we need to promote and uplift good behavior. This is sometimes difficult in a free society but it isn't impossible. McCain and Palin are more conservative than are Obama and Biden and although none of the camps are discussing this problem I have to believe that the conservatives seem more likely to solve this problem.
7) Social Security - I am actually more comfortable with Obama's solution of reforming social security. I don't believe privatizing it (as McCain wants to do) will produce good results.
8) Illegal Immigration - Here is another issue where I believe we need to make large reforms. We need to have a system in place that does not promote illegal immigration. Bush has been an abysmal failure on this issue. I don't hear what I think is the solution from either camp, but McCain sounds the most fair on this topic. What needs to be done is to absolutely crack down on illegal immigration and on states like Maryland that harbor and promote this. Its an assault on the rule of law to have these laws but basically allow the immigration because we believe that we couldn't find people to do the work these illegals are doing. This is just a basic unfair system. I believe if go back to actually following the law, we will be doing what is right (why is this even debatable?) and we will have fewer problems replacing these workers than is feared.
9) Overall move toward Socialism - Obama and Dems seem want to move the system toward an overall socialist system I fear this. I want to maintain a fair free market system where the government does its job and gets out of our way otherwise. We have too many laws and too much government intrusion. What are the ten words I hate to hear: "I'm from the federal government and I'm here to help." Limited small efficient government. Lately the Republicans like Bush haven't followed those principals but relying on the Dems to do it is not the answer. Things can get worse!
Why are you voting McCain or Obama?
Because I love my country.
I am selecting the employee for the most important job in the world.
I look at the resume’s of the candidates and I have one applicant handing me a resume that is so weak that if I got it, I would not even waste my time with a call back, let alone an interview for the position. I have another with nearly 30 years of experience, I may not like everything on his resume in those 30 years, but there is no doubt at all this is the better candidate. Period.
There are more reasons that that, but at the end of the day, that’s the begining middle and end. You cannot overcome the simple fact, one candidate is just completely unqualified for consideration, let alone hiring.
Privatizing Social Security would be a large disaster IMO. I wouldn’t have implemented it initially, but I don’t trust the private sector on managing the system either. Look at the housing bubble. The government has its place and it should be limited but Social Security is a mainstay like it or not and it needs to be maintained IMO.
Oh, good!
You’re going to protest!
And after everybody in your bathroom recognizes your reasoning, you’re still stuck with an anti-American socialist in the White House, supported by a sympathetic Congress.
Wouldn’t your concerns stand a better chance of a favorable resolution if you got over your tantrum and actually did something positive to keep the enemy out of the White House?
“it needs to be maintained IMO.
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A bad idea never needs to be maintained, it needs to be abolished. How can this country ever continue if it can only adopt more and more bad ideas never to shed them?
I understand your point but practicality and the realization that many would not save the money and the fact that the private sector does not provide the security I think is needed for this program brings me to my conclusion.
I really want to hear details of why people are voting for McCain. SPecifics on the tax code,. Culture of life is good, but how will McCain support the culture of life?
The only hope we have of advancing conservatism is to work within the existing Republican party, or form a new one from scratch.
A new party would take generations to develop into a viable political force, by that time the march to socialism will be complete. We simply don't have the time.
We must therefore work to take back the Republican party form the socially Liberal NE RINOs and party power brokers. For that, we need a conservative leader.
By nominating Sarah Palin, John McCain has done more to assure the future conservative salvation of the Republican party than anything Bush has done in the last eight years, something that he has been criminally negligent on IMO.
For this reason alone McCain gets my vote.
I appreciate that. I have a son in th Navy, and a son in law flying Seahawks form the academy. He’s in IRAQ now.
Can i copy your post to another forum to spread this around?
Thanks
TommyJoe
Good points. Palin’s interviews were weak in some areas. The bridge to nowhere worries me. She wansn’t totally above board about that. Also she was weak in my opinion on the Abortion issue, stating she understands or entertains the pro-choice viewpoint? Didn’t point out that there is another life involved. She walks the talk however , but I don’t think you shrink back on that issue. You boldly stand up like Reagan did. It works. She seemed to back off that IMO.
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Well said.
“Why I am voting for McCain over Obama (I want to hear reasons)”
Prior to the Palin pick, I was going to MAYBE vote for Juan simply because he’s NOT Obama. Post-Palin? I am going to enthusiastically cast that vote and pray that she may take over the reigns of power just as soon as He sees fit.
“I am not voting for McCain because I am a republican, I am voting against Obama because I am an American.”
That was beautiful.
Because I’m a Republican and Obama isn’t.
I wonder if you’d feel the same way if you’d payed into it for forty years?
I believe that we need to make some reforms to the system.
Reforms that turn SS revenues into some sort of investment with a minimum yield, (as opposed to a slush fund to finance dubious federal spending) are desperately needed. I think there are ways to accomplish that.
SS was, and is, a contract with the American people that paid into it for their entire lives. It needs to be honored.
How would you feel about a private company that forced its employees to contribute into its pension system for 45 years suddenly deciding that they simply cannot afford to pay that pension to the retiree because the shareholders wanted higher dividends?
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