We all have our personal litmus tests for our candidates.
Some won’t vote for a man unless he’s 100% right on every issue they hold. That is one extreme.
Some will vote for anyone with an R by their name, regardless. That’s another extreme.
Myself, I look at which electable candidate would do a better job leading this nation. There is no contest whatsoever. McCain is the obvious choice. I am a patriot. I will do what’s best for my country, without “holding my nose.”
McCain is about 90% where I am politically. That is far and away enough for me.
For me, the very first litmus test is character, of which McCain is without completely and utterly, so I need go no further. He is not worthy of the office.
Outside of that, if I were to go forward (which I will not), he is no where near me politically, especially in his collusion with the likes of Feingold, Kennedy, and Clinton. One cannot be conservative in the least and find agreement or compromise therein.
I can really find no redeeming feature in him, with the solitary exception of his somewhat reasonable experience in military matters and foreign policy. But his inherently poor character traits, his obsession with globalism, and his compromise with the worst of the Marxists in our government far outweigh that solitary advantage.
Putting one's faith in the faithless, expecting a betrayer not to betray yet again, is a fool's errand.
That is about where I stand. Although I know McCain is going to cross the line on many issues, its the best choice.
Unfortunately Alan Keyes lost his relevancy a long time ago, and seems headstrong in making himself even more irrelevant.
I took the essay to mean that Keyes is criticizing Dobson for the change in his position, based upon the reason that he gave for making it in the first place.
Really, if he intended to do a flip flop, Dobson should never have made that statement in the first place.
Keyes is taking Dobson to task for his inconsistency. If you never made a statement like Dobson, that you would never vote for McCain out of conscience, then it doesn’t have relevance toward you.
I read most of this and just garnered criticism for Dobson out of it which he richly deserves for his behavior this election season.