Pinging my list for comments.. agree or disagree?
if there are any trolls, you maybe be sorry that you posted your number
Agree 100%
With Sarah on the ticket - I will vote for it with pleasure!!
Things sure would have been a lot easier if we had picked a conservative for the top of the ticket. Yeah I’m still saying Duncan Hunter could have easily handed Obama, Clinton, or Edwards their butts on platters. (seperately or all at once)
That said Palin is a great pick for VP.
Political extremes have little luck in the American political setup. Hence, you or I and others will never find a candidate 100% ok with us. Even Reagan was not far enough Right for the Right. So our choice, if it is to have any significant impact, is always limited to which candidate is closer to us.
Palin as a VP candidate reassures me a great deal. It shows a concern for the future of the GOP. And the fact she is a Life Member of the NRA will drive the Left into Hysterical Hurricanes of Hate.
I agree with you David. 100%.
However, we don’t have a lot of logical choices.
We vote McCain, or we vote Obama.
People say “I’ll vote third party” or “I’ll not vote”
Those are both ignorance speaking, and plainly put, stupid ideas. Not voting at all is uncalled for. Voting a third party (and I mean either democrats or republicans, liberals or conservatives) means a vote for the “Other Party”.
As you stated this is a two party system, regardless... you must vote for your PARTY. McCain is right of Obama. Left of Reagan.
Palin balances things and the best part, she’s pissing of the LEFT like you wouldn’t believe.
It’s time to step up to the plate, be a MAN (OR WOMAN!) and VOTE REPUBLICAN.
Check my previous posts in the past and you will see I’m also a STRONG Conservative, and never liked McCain. But, he’s got my vote.
Until Governor Palin came onto the ticket, I was not sure I could press the lever for McCain. Choosing her was a strategic stroke of genius, as well as an answer to many prayers.
If McCain realizes that she brings the victory for him; that he had better take her views into serious consideration for she represents a mandate, he can assure himself of a second term. If not, watch out!
I disagree for the most part. I agree that McCain hasn’t been the most reliably conservative senator, but he’s nowhere near the most liberal. I’ll just throw out the names Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe, and Arlen Specter. Those three are infinitely more liberal than McCain. McCain has been rated as the Most Conservative senator as recently as 2006.
The problem with McCain is that on a few issues of HIGH importance to you (and to me, I might add), he has bucked the party and gone in another direction. He’s made me angry in the past about this too, but I’m okay with a guy who I occasionally disagree with as long as I know that (1) he makes decisions on what he truly feels is best for the country, (2) he listens to those who disagree with him, and (3) he surrounds himself with good people who will give him good advice, and (4) he accepts the responsibility for the making the ultimate decision. McCain meets those criteria. Even on point 3, I will give you that Lindsey Graham is not the best person to be taking advice from, but you can see in the choice of Palin that McCain went his own way with that choice, NOT the way that Lindsey was telling him to go (Lieberman). We simply can’t get a leader with whom we ALWAYS agree, as much as we’d like to. But we USUALLY agree with McCain, far more often than we disagree with him.
I am pleased to see that Sarah Palin has agreed to join the McCain ticket,
Is that it? Your analysis is that McCain & Palin are on the ticket? Who wouda thunk it..............