“Oh, so you’re campaigning for state and congressional races. But it was the Presidential race I suggested you get involved in.”
I am saying: Take your idea and run with it! If you think it will help - DO IT! I am doing my thing to help conservatives, YOU DO YOURS.
“GWOT and the courts are two areas that McCain is solid (except for Guantanamo), but they’re offset greatly by amnesty and Global Warming.”
#1 - They are orthogonal issues.
#2 - and this is key ... AGW and amnesty are monster bills that have to get through the Congress. to defeat them, win the Congress. Obama will be worse on global warming and worse on amnesty, so sitting on your hands over those issues is a ‘do nothing’ play that won’t get the job done. what will get the job done is helping the conservatives who are running for Congress.
” Your problem, however, is your constant harping about his being the lesser of two evils. That I don’t buy,”
your problem, not mine, that you don’t grasp the obvious:
1. McCain is a moderate-to-conservative, Obama was rated *most liberal* Senator in the Senate last year.
McCain is better on taxes, Judges, Iraq, Iran, GWOT, right-to-life, gun rights, earmarks/spending, and gay marriage (Obama will use his bully pulpit to encourage it)
2. McCain is a capable and experienced man who served the country his whole life, even in a POW camp. Obama has spent a lifetime raised and associated with radicals, marxists, and leftwing activists; he has served ‘the cause’ of leftwing politics only and nothing else. Ideology aside, and putting just the basic protection of the country on the line, there is no comparison - McCain is better.
3. We vote based on who is best for the country as top priority. We will clean up the mess of RINO poop in the RNC later as a secondary priority, top priority of a patriot is what is best for America.
4. Based on #1 and #2, McCain is far far better for this country than Obama.
5. Neither man is ‘evil’, but far more bad things will happen to USA if Obama is elected.
6. You never win by losing. The most leftwing President in American history - Obama - will be a huge blow to the conservative cause. Anyone who thinks otherwise is on drugs.
Ergo, the right choice for President for any conservative is not sit-on-hands-and-hope-for-best, it is this: Vote for John McCain, with reservations that he is disagreeable on some items (AGW and amnesty), and continue the fight for our issues after he gets in office.
Save “shrill and petulant” for those who predict the fall of our party, cause and country if we elect a guy as liberal as Ford and Eisenhower.
Point already answered. Goodbye.