[Las Vegas Ron]

I am humbled and most respectful to these two great men.

However, McCain has still not earned my vote

[SoConPubbie]

Same here. While I honor McCain for serving and the extreme suffering he went through, it does not qualify him to be President.

It is his adherence, or lack thereof, to conservative principles that will allow me to vote/not vote for him.

Given his history, I will not be voting for him, I will, however, write in the name of an Actual conservative and fight for all Conservative candidates in down-stream races.

McCain's recent history:

1. Gang of Fourteen (Kept some of President Bush’s best judges from being presented for a vote) See here and here
2. McCain-Fiengold (Assault on Free Speech and Pro-Life
3. McCain-Kennedy (Amnesty for criminal Illegal Aliens)
4. McCain-Lieberman (50 cents a gallon tax)
5. Total support for global warming scam, including the Carbon Cap-and-Trade system. See Here
6. Support for embryonic stem cell research (Murder of unborn babies).
7. Wants to close Gitmo and give Terrorists access to our legal system.
8. F grade from Gun-Owners of America.
9. C grade from NRA.
10. 65% score from American Conservative Union in 2006
11. Wants to bail out sub-prime losers (many of which are either illegal aliens or lied on thier applications) with US tax money.
12. Voted against President Bush’s tax cuts (called them tax-cuts for the rich)
13. Flirted with the idea of crossing over to the Dems in 2004.
14. Wants to implement a socialist Health Care proposal that includes providing tax-coffer monies (your tax dollars) to the states to provide Health Care Insurance for those who either refuse to pay for it, or are unable to afford it (mostly illegal aliens).
15. Divorced his wife after he got back from Vietnam. The same woman who remained true to him and raised his kids while he was imprisoned.
16. Refuses to drill in ANWR. See here and here
17. Agrees with Democrats that our Foreign Policy has been arrogant and we need to be more humble.
18. Thinks and states that Pharmaceutical companies are evil
19. Has accepted funding from Soros and Teresa Heinz-Kerry for his institute
20. John McCain's Top 10 Class-Warfare Arguments Against Tax Cuts
21 "I think the Democrat Party is a fine and I have no problems with it, in their views and philosophy"
22. Strongly against Same Sex Marriage Ban Constitutional Amendment
23. Voted for Pro-Abortion Bill and Here.
24. Voted against bill that would impose sanctions against foreign governments and companies that invest more than $20 million in Iran's energy sector until the president certified to Congress that Iran had dismantled its weapons of mass destruction Here and Here
25. Voted against repealing the death tax.
26. McCain-Edwards-Kennedy    (Many Democrat inspired bad rules included in this monstrosity)

[txrangerette]

McCain has political problems, for sure, most of which he has created for himself.

In terms of McCain as Vietnam POW, I read an article in a small town TX newspaper by a man who once believed ill of McCain as a POW.

This man changed his mind on that after getting a personal letter from Bud Day and after speaking with Day following the letter.

Also, he checked and found to be true that those who served with McCain during the POW years are his strongest supporters, not his detractors.

This is the opposite from John Kerry’s case, where so many who knew what Kerry was like and what he was up to were part of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.

And no, you didn’t have to serve on Kerry’s boat in order to know what Kerry did. It didn’t work that way, as the Swifties explained.

Bottom line, McCain deserves respect if it comes foremost from the men who served with him.

The political problems are a seperate issue, IMV.

[forYourChildrenVote4Bush]

“...However, McCain has still not earned my vote...”

Ok, so stay home or vote for obama....it stinks to hear you people even talk that way.....

“we’ll have 4 years of jimmy carter to get 8 years of Reagan...blah blah blah...”

Well you might get 8 or 12 years of Democrats and you'll see how many Liberal Judges will be put on the bench, than what?