[AmericaUnited]

The problem is, he’s been wrong on some very specific and very crucial issues that are dear to a lot of folks here, plus there’s his general demeanor and attitude.

Oh I know that, having not been in a coma or cave the last few years, but don't ever try to tell me their is no difference between The Evil Witch and McInsane.

Hey cheer up everyone! At least those annoying dictator countries will get nuked every couple of months under President McCain.

[GB]

Oh I know. I don't care if I get flamed to cinders for saying this, but people that are equating McCain with Maxine Waters, saying there's no difference between him and Hillary, saying he's liable to pick Russ Feingold as VP, that's just sheer craziness and I sometimes wonder if those who are saying such things are even serious. With his record on abortion and the war in Iraq, does anyone REALLY think the Dems would let him within a light year of membership in their party?

I've long believed, and I have discussed this here before, that McCain tweaking the nose of conservatives, etc., has never been so much about him detesting us but has been about his personal animus toward President Bush, who you must admit was a darling here until it finally registered that he wasn't going to do anything toward advancing the conservative movement, toward Rush, toward others, etc., over the perceived wrongs he thought were done to him in 2000. Of course the fact that he can't get over something after eight years is a black mark against him to me as well, but again, if it's him vs. Hillary or Obama, there's no question what I will do. I'm not going to screw the country to make a point. And while McCain would not be the conservative movement president we want ... and I submit that there is no great outcry in this country for a conservative movement president and has not been in the past; we were lulled into thinking there was by Reagan's two victories and by 1994, when IMHO Reagan's victories stemmed more from his personal magnetism than anything else, and 1994 was from Clinton scaring everybody to death about health care, etc. ... I'm sorry, anyone who thinks there wouldn't be a dime's worth of difference between a McCain presidency and a Clinton or Obama presidency needs to go take a cold shower and then come back and rejoin the discussion.

I wasn't old enough to vote in 1972, but if I had been, and had been faced with Richard Nixon (who was no conservative, he actually governed to the left of Slick Clinton in some ways) vs. George McGovern, there is no question how I would have voted. Not because I'm a Republican. There's no party registration in my state, and if there were I'd register Independent. But because I want the best for my country. And sometimes the best you can get in a given situation is best.