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To: Swordfished
If one is a principled person, voting for McCain is 'throwing your vote away'. Think about it. This isn't a football game...and no matter which team wins, the country loses.

Depends on what issues are most important to you. If you don't care about paying more taxes, surrendering to the Muslims, nationalized health care, free government money for education and unemployed, Supreme Court, then I suppose there is little difference. I don't care for about 30% of what McCain stands for and don't trust him on another 20%. But that is still far better than the damage Obama could do with a Democratic Senate and House.

7 posted on 05/27/2008 8:42:15 AM PDT by Always Right (Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?)
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To: Always Right
If you don't care about paying more taxes, surrendering to the Muslims, nationalized health care, free government money for education and unemployed, Supreme Court, then I suppose there is little difference.

How sure are you about McCain and tax cuts?! He opposed the Bush tax cuts and has claimed he 'doesn't understand the economy'.

He's against waterboarding and wants to close down Gitmo.

He's talked about a national health care plan.

He won't be stripping or trimming entitlements, especially for 'God's children'.

He'll supposedly appoint justices like Roberts and Alito - what about Scalia or Thomas? Do you think he is more or less conservative than George H.W. Bush? Look what he gave us.

And what's with this bilge about global warming?

McCain is a nitemare candidate. Oh, and a little issue called immigration. DISASTER.

Obama may be double the disaster but a disaster is a disaster!

It's insulting that anyone on FR, supposedly a place of principle, should be pushing this RINO.

11 posted on 05/27/2008 8:53:03 AM PDT by Swordfished
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To: Always Right

Well said!


19 posted on 05/27/2008 9:12:28 AM PDT by al_c (Avoid the consequences of erudite vernacular utilized irrespective of necessity)
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To: Always Right
I don't care for about 30% of what McCain stands for and don't trust him on another 20%. But that is still far better than the damage Obama could do with a Democratic Senate and House.

That kind of thinking is how we ended up with the idiot(s) we have now. I'm done voting for Republicans who aren't solidly Conservative, no matter the result.
21 posted on 05/27/2008 9:18:05 AM PDT by WackySam
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To: Always Right

Bump that.


32 posted on 05/27/2008 10:02:05 AM PDT by RedRover (DefendOurMarines.org | DefendOurTroops.org)
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To: Always Right

Excellent Post! That’s my take on McCain too.

I’ll vote for him in November...but that’s only because the alternative (Clinton or Obama) is too awful to contemplate.


41 posted on 05/27/2008 12:04:11 PM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: Always Right
I don't care for about 30% of what McCain stands for and don't trust him on another 20%. But that is still far better than the damage Obama could do with a Democratic Senate and House.

I voted by the same rationale in 2004. Four years later I can clearly see the flaw in that rationale.

The argument that a vote on principle could in any way (short of ballot fraud) be a wasted vote is the number one lie that continues to keep the enemies of freedom in public office. To vote from fear rather than from principle is to undermine the very freedom to vote in the first place.

47 posted on 05/28/2008 10:35:54 AM PDT by Frumanchu (Life is too short to argue with liars)
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