All the GOP candidates are equally bad, but yet are still better than the alternative.
I think the key difference is that while there is no one I would love to vote for on the Republican side there is no one I’d let walk my dog on the Democrat side let alone protect the country against all enemies foreign and domestic.
I don’t think that’s necessarily true regarding McCain. Yes, in the past he has taken conservative stances - but recently he has started veering sharply to the left. He is unpredictable, a loose cannon - & I think, certifiably insane.
I’m sorry to hear Laura pick party over values. I won’t be doing that again. I’m out of the GOP & going Independent. I will never vote for McCain under any circumstances, not saying I’ll vote for Hillary or Obama - but I DEFINITELY won’t vote for John McQueeg.
The hell with the RNC establishmentarian mouthpieces.
McCain is a liberal who will run the country into the ground, but, because he has a scarlet “R” next to his name, conservatives will get the blame.
If we are going to be run by liberals then let it be an open Marxist like Hillary or Obama so that leftist policies get credited with destroying the country.
Why vote for McCain when we can run Petraeus in 2012?
You are saying there is an alternative?
That assumption, which I held five years ago as firmly as you hold now, I finally figured out is WHY we're looking at the train wreck of ultra-liberal Democrat and Intrusive Government Republican candidates we have today. Had enough Republican voters rejected that false premise over the past decade and refused to settle for intrusive government Republicans they didn't like but voted for because of the R, the Republican party would not have moved so far left that it set the bar for Liberalism at the likes of Hillary and Obama and put up an entire field of Republican candidates that actually endorse intrusive government concepts like nationalized health care, save-the-planet global warming restrictions, "rights" of homosexuals to lead your local Boy Scout troop, etc. That I and others have for so long unskeptically accepted the ol' "still better than the alternative!" position is why we're in this mess in the first place.
I'll vote, but my choice will be predicated on using my vote to push the Republican party RIGHT. Bottom line: neither Romney nor McCain nor Huck will ever get MY vote because long-term, they are worse than the alternative.
“All the GOP candidates are equally bad, but yet are still better than the alternative.”
The most important issue is defending our southern border, and maintaining US sovereignty in the USA.
Only one of the four remaining leading candidates will do that: Mitt Romney.