Posted on 05/12/2008 8:55:19 AM PDT by PurpleMountains
My friends and I have cried in our beer long enough about the awful choices we face in the upcoming Presidential election next fall, and we have made it clear how much we regret having to vote for Senator McCain. What I decided to do was to list the 10 most important issues I have, in order of their importance to me, and see how the three present candidates would stack up with respect to these issues.
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I’m voting for McCain for the simple reason that he is the least likely to eliminate the Bush tax cuts. The Bush tax cuts have saved my family thousands of dollars a year.
I’m voting for Senator McCain because I consider him to be the only serious candidate when it comes to the WOT. However, this is my last vote for a GOP candidate like Senator McCain. If McCain wins this November, he will not get my vote 4 years later.
I’m fed up with the “better than the alternative” idea because the GOP keeps running candidates that are further and further to the left.
While McCain does about half. While he was not my first, second or third choice, I will hold my nose and vote for him in the fall because Hillary and Obamalama are unthinkable! There is too much at stake and they would do irreversible damage to the United States, our military, our standing in the world and to our very way of life.
I am voting for McCain because he is the best candidate for the Presidency. The others that I liked, and there were several, just did not make it happen. McCain did.
The alternative, Obama, is too awful to contemplate. Massive gun control, probably through the use of serialized ammunition and talking as a substitute for action are initiatives that are simply not up to the standards we have set for our Presidents. This is the worst lot of Demo candidates that I have ever seen. Simply irrelevant in this 21st century world.
There are an awful lot of people in this world who would feel the need to mess with Obama, to test his resolve with threats and perhaps attacks and bombings in our bluer cities.
There are fewer who are crazy enough to “eff” with McCain. He is regarded as being substantially more lethal than any of the Demos and that reputaion is well deserved.
McCain gets my vote. Handsdown.
I think this gag reflex will hurt him a lot in the fall.
It is pathetic that our candidate will adhere to conservatism 50% of the time, at best. Meanwhile, the Democrats are voting for candidates that will go with them about 95% of the time.
The conservative movement is weak and marginalized. And it doesn’t seem to be getting better.
When the dems lost, they were all trying to come up with a strategy to win and ‘get thier message out’. So far, nothing is happing on our side. We’ve been reduced to voting for chaos in the democratic primary.
Well, he is the best of our remaining choices,
his temper makes me a bit nervous but I figure the rest of the world needs to see an American President GET mad once in a while.
The "Conservative Revolution" under Reagan (who enabled big government and open borders) and then Gingrich (replete with politicians who were more concerned with Beltway perks than charting a new course), was the closest we're ever going to come to a conservative government. Conservatism is something that sounds good in theory but will never be a reality, so long as politicians are politicians.
And after 20 years of wating, I agree would with you "realists" that I might as well vote for McCain (if I bother), although he's not much different from the candidates on the other side (and why I think he'll ultimately lose to a more charismatic Obama-- the election will come down to personalities, not a clearly articulated differences in political doctrines). The American public is rightly disillusioned with political critters. Government will not get off our backs-- let's make the most of it and focus on getting ready for the next life.
No political party can expect me to lift a finger ever again. The 18th century notions of political optimism that we're pregressing toward a freer and happier society played out long ago. It's not going to get better in this life; neither conservatism nor liberlaism is going to give us utopeia on earth.
I'm over it.
I agree. John McCain refused to knuckle under while being beaten in Vietnam and these little tin horn dictators from Iran, Venezuela or North Korea are going to find him a very tough character.
I am voting for Mccain without holding my nose. He is the best candidate.
I fully expect history to repeat itself, in that if Senator McCain is elected, he’ll be a one term president. After that, a far left liberal along the lines of Jimmy Carter will get elected. After that, the Republicans will move further to the right and put forth a true conservative candidate.
Perhaps this election will see the far left candidate win. I’m hoping we can stave it off another 4 years in order to spare Iraq the disastrous consequences of a sudden withdrawal.
I think the Democrats have the political cover they need in order to lose Iraq. If Senator Obama wins, he can pull the troops and blame whatever anarchy results on “misguided Republican policy.”
I'm not so sure about that, no matter what he might say now that he's pandering for votes, since he voted against the tax cuts in the first place.
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