[DoughtyOne]

Hal, if Obame proposes to close Gitmo, Republicans will oppose him.

If John proposes it, they’ll vote for it.

It’s that simple times hundreds of things John will propose.

Give me a straight up enemy we can fight as a solid team. Don’t give us a guy who doesn’t agree with us on much, and will divide and conquer us.

[HAL9000]

I'm trying to understand. May I assume that you are not proposing to literally "vote for Obama", but rather, "let Obama win"? Perhaps we can agree that the other 414 candidates are irrelevant.

We can also agree that Obama would face the most resistance in Congress - at first. But President Obama would be in a position to influence congressional elections, and get representatives more in-line with his thinking. After eight years of President Obama, and a few election cycles, who knows what Congress will be like? Their resistance could fade.

And what sort of Command-in-Chief would Obama be compared to McCain? If Obama wins, we abandon our commitment to Iraq. This is the fatal flaw of any "let Obama win" concept.

[AmericanInTokyo]

8 years of Bush RINO-ism and the Party (GOP) as well as not a few conservative GOP leaders, to refuse to stop him, is proof enough that with McLame, we will get the same with a Trojan Horse from "OUR SIDE" in office doing the same damned things the Democrats would do, which we would unite over and oppose.