McCain would be better on defense (I think). His comments about shutting down Gitmo concern me.
I look at...
Opposition to the Bush tax cuts
McCain Lieberman
McCain Kennedy
McCain Feingold
The gang of 14
His record is left of center. He’s better on Islamofascism than Obama, but that’s an obvious threat. He’s no different on enviromarxism and that’s the more dangerous threat because it’s unopposed.
The GOP would rally in opposition to the hare-brained polcies of a President Obama. Only principled conservatives would oppose the hare-brained policies of a President McCain. A President McCain would be marginally better on terrorism (I think), but would fracture the GOP and take our country on a long left U-turn. He scares me more than Obama.
I was raised in a liberal. democrat household and strongly supported Carter in 1976. At the time, I remember thinking that the Democrats owned the Senate, House, and Oval Office. There are no excuses.
I may have been young, but I saw the error of my ways. I joyously voted for Reagan in 1980 and 84. I volunteered and campaigned for an incompetent Beau Boulter (against Lloyd Bentsen) in 88 because of GHW Bush’s voodoo economics rhetoric, which made me justifiably doubtful about GHW Bush. I voted for GHW Bush only because I couldn’t stand Dukakis. Four years later I voted for him only because I couldn’t stand Clinton. Four years later I voted for (duh) Dole only because I couldn’t stand Clinton. Four years later I voted for GW Bush only because I couldn’t stand Gore. Four years later I voted for GW Bush only because I couldn’t stand Kerry.
Today, I can’t stand McCain or Obama or Hillary. I’m tired of voting against people. I’m tired of RINOs. I’m tired of Republicans who are little more than Democrats at a 10% discount.
I can’t support McCain because he’s less despicable than Obama. I’ll vote because the down ballot elections matter, but I don’t know if I can vote at the top of the ballot. If I do, it will be for Bob Barr or a write-in. McCain, Obama, and Hillary are not very different to me and none will get my vote.
I’d almost talked myself into voting for McCain until his Oregon Gorebasm speech. I won’t support a green enviromarxist any more than an out-and-out red marxist. I suspect my views are similar to many conservatives. If McCain wins, it will not be with our support, it will be because he staked out a position left of center, while running against a radical left of left candidate.
McCain will govern to the left and take away any chance for the GOP to rally in opposition to leftist jurist appointments (i.e., more David Souters), tax hikes, Gaia worship, and command and control enviromarxism.
If McCain loses, we’re in for a very bad four years. If he wins, we may be in for a bad quarter century.
I can’t support Obama. I won’t support McCain
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The other major point for McCain is that Ronald Reagan is not waiting in the wings to come and save us again. He is gone, God rest him. We simply cannot afford the possibility of a 4-8-or possibly-16 yrs. of hard core socialism.
Just look at Great Britain. Their meteoric slide into Clockwork Orange Land has only taken a few short years.
Polygamy is illegal in GB, but last month the Muslims were awarded welfare benefits for multiple wives and children.
The Swiss just recently held a gov’t conference to consider the plight of flora and fauna, the feelings of plants and the proper respect for those feelings. Germany has arrested parents who choose to homeschool their children. In one case, they put a 13 yr. old girl in a mental institution because she declared herself a Christian. Every day, here on FR, you can learn about hundreds of these examples.
Here in the U.S., we have an unknown entity who will likely be the Dem candidate for POTUS. Is he Muslim or just black liberation racist Christian? Is he a legal scholar when he cannot even understand our capital gains tax system? If he loves America, why does he want to change it? What does “hope and change” mean to this man anyway? All that...and he has a shot at being our leader. Nope. No way in hell.
Somebody here has a tagline that states, “McCain couldn't make me vote for him, but Obama did”. That's exactly the way I see it.