I’m not sure why you wouldn’t support John McCain from your standpoint as a liberal. McCain is conservative on many issues but also quite independent and even liberal on some issues. At least Mccain has done something in his life unlike Obama or Hillary.
I am not a liberal. I am a classical liberal, which would be closer to a small “l” libertarian than anything else. I believe in a minimal federal government whose budget primarily consists of military defense and a criminal justice system (for those few crimes which are truly federal because they take place in more than one state, or are against a federal institution or property). I do not have a problem with such things as public roads and public funding of primary and secondary education, although I see little scope for the federal government in either.
You don't see the confusion here?
I was thinking today how for the past twenty years McCain has declared himself a "maverick." No one could tell him what to do. Now that he needs conservative votes he wants us to all circle the wagons. Sorry, now I'm the maverick ...who will not be voting for McCain.
Because a liberal is always going to vote for a real liberal, not a fake one playing both sides of the fence.