We vote for the most rightward, VIABLE candidates, so that some conservative principles can actually be implemented, while you vote the most conservative candidate without considering viability and therefore whether or not your conservative principles can be implemented. You leave out half the equation.
I vote for as many of my conservative principles as I think I can get...EVERY time.
For instance, considering the pro-life question, McCain is far more likely to pick conservative, pro-life judges than Obama. On that alone, I prefer McCain. I look forward to the day Roe is overturned and there are far fewer abortions in this country.
Obama will pick pro-choice judges postponing that day thirty to forty more years.
How could any pro-life conservative in good conscience sit back and allow that to happen without fighting back, which in this case means supporting McCain?
Frankly, I must question the conservative credentials of so-called conservatives who do so. Further, you play right into the hands of our liberal enemies. You betray our cause all the while patting yourselves on the back and you're clueless as to the fact that you've done so. Liberals LOVE so-called conservatives like yourself. They're banking on you. Tragic.
Yes.
Personally I don't like McCain very much and his 60% conservatism isn't anything that would make me want to endorse him at this point in time.
That said, when November rolls around and I must make a choice on who to vote for one major factor will be abortion and Roe v. Wade. McCain is more likely to pick pro life judges. Conversely, Obama would pick judges that would continue the slaughter of the unborn for another generation.
"Mitt tanks the ticket," says a McCain insider. "We lose fiscal conservatives. We lose social conservatives. We lose Catholics. We lose evangelicals. All the groups were spending time and money on bringing into the camp would be lost. He just doesn't help us enough to do something like this, as much as Mitt might think we should. He doesn't even win us Massachusett