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.
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.