We wouldn’t be the United States of America if the Founding Fathers had not compromised. We don’t always have the luxury to avoid compromise. Sometimes there is no perfect solution or, in this case, candidate, just, hopefully, a less damaging one.
My first choice was Giuliani and my second choice was McCain. I like McCain. He is an independent thinker quite like myself who doesn’t follow blindly. I like the fact that he has not agreed with Bush on everything. Neither have I at times.
I have to say that this isn’t 1980 anymore. The Conservative Party of yesteryear is no longer. There is a new generation of conservatism. That inludes the very conservative types and the liberal conservatives like myself. I am a pro-life feminist, pagan, environmentalist that likes Bush and who is also in favor of Gay Marriage. Now, as it reads, I am obviously not your cookie-cutter ‘conservative’, but I have always voted Republican.
I do plan on voting for McCain if he should be the nominee, but when I hear talk from conservatives saying they would rather vote for Hillary instead of McCain, I can’t help but wonder what they’re smoking. There is absolutely under no circumstances will I ever vote for a Clinton.
McCain is NOT the enemy. The terrorists who killed 3,000 of our citizens is the enemy. Conservatives should like about that before trying to ‘make a point’ by voting for Hillary just because McCain doesn’t fit the picture of ‘perfection’ when it comes to being a ‘conservative’. No one is perfect, but everyone is an individual. McCain will get my vote, no questions asked.