“While I am pro-life I’m even more ANTI amnesty. That nails it for me!”
In the general, you will have a choice. Hillary is even more liberal on Immigration than McCain. Plus she is pro-abortion to the core. McCain is staunchly pro-life.
So, even if you assume the worst about McCain on Immigration, he still agrees with you on one out of two of these issues.
And as far as the all important issue of who is Commander in Chief in time of war and with troops in the field, let me put to you like this: “If you were in Iraq or Afghanistan as an ordinary combat soldier, who would you want as your Commander in Chief, John McCain or Hillary Clinton?”
If you can look in the mirror and say “Hillary Clinton”, then you have your candidate. If not, you have to ask yourself whether your opposition to McCain on other issues is worth the cost in human lives that our troops will sustain from Hillary as Commander in Chief, not to mention the damage to American security. Remember, in the 1940s, it was a Democrat President who lost China to the Communists, and the Red Chinese represent a security threat for us to this day. And in the 1970, another Democrat President, the “estimable” /s Jimmy Carter, helped to overthrow the Shah and replace him with our enemies in Iran who are still there 30 years later, assisting terrorists and trying to acquire nuclear weapons to use on us.
History is full of examples of inept leadership at the top causing huge casualties. (Lyndon Johnson in Vietnam comes to mind) For my part, if I disagreed with McCain on everything, I would be hard pressed to elect someone who I would not want as my Commander in Chief. I would feel that I was letting down the very same troops who have never let me or the rest of us down. JMHO.