“I stand by my original assertion: John McCain as POTUS would be an imminent threat to the U.S.A. as we know it.
Somewhere in what I’ve written above I hope comes the rejoinder that what you assert is impossible. It presumes unchecked powers he simply wouldn’t have.
And if he circumvented the will of the Party, say by executive order or administrative powers (i.e., allocation of resouces) or an unwillingness to use his veto against Democratic legislation, I doubt the party would be there to support and finance a second term.”
McCain would wield power that few Presidents have, by virtue of being a nominal member of one party while ideologically aligned with the other. Republicans wouldn’t fight the POTUS of their own party, not if they wanted to keep their political careers. Democrats wouldn’t fight McCain, at least not much, because they ideologically support most of what he wants to do anyway.
Because he is philosophically a Democrat while wearing the label of a Republican, McCain would be a uniquely powerful and therefore uniquely dangerous. He would be able to do far more lasting and significant damage than either Hillary or Obama, because one party would fight them, while no party would fight him. Add to that the fact that McCain is old and sick and probably doesn’t have eight years in him, and there is virtually no check on him. He can do almost anything he likes because he literally has nothing to lose.
If McCain wins, we will have effectively lost the two party system. With so many RINOS in power already, we are dangerously close to losing it now. With four years of McCain, the transformation of the parties into “totally socialist” and “slightly less than totally socialist” will be complete, and there will be no party left that even gives lip service to the Constitutional foundations upon which this country was based.
I, for one, will not be a part of that, and I think it is childish and shortsighted for any conservative to do so just to get a win in the “R” column in November.
Do you believe we will fare just well or better with an Obama or Clinton Presidency than we would with a McCain Presidency, with regard to national security, military operations in Iraq and the War on Terror in general?
For me, it is not just about the "R" in the win column.
I particularly liked this part which has been exemplified by Schwarzenegger over the past 5 years in California:
McCain would wield power that few Presidents have, by virtue of being a nominal member of one party while ideologically aligned with the other. Republicans wouldn’t fight the POTUS of their own party, not if they wanted to keep their political careers. Democrats wouldn’t fight McCain, at least not much, because they ideologically support most of what he wants to do anyway.