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Never voted for an earmark.

Voted to confirm Alito and Roberts.

Consistently votes for lower budgets.

Voted to support the WOT every time it comes up.

Voted for the border fence.

Has an 82% lifetime ACU rating, including an 80% rating for the year 2007.

McCain actually voted FOR allowing the use of waterboarding, even though he personally does not approve of it (see the vote for the Feb 2008 Senate Intelligence bill, which would have banned waterboarding, and he voted against that bill).

Voted twice (one of only two Republicans to do that) to take SS off budget, meaning that Congress could not continue to use IOUs from SS to cover budget deficits.

Any of those worth voting for? And then compare those votes and positions to those of Obama and Hillary - I think you’ll find them diametrically opposed.

I have been voting since 1980 and in all that time I have only voted twice for what Freepers would call a pure conservative and even that one had some flaws but still turned out to be the greatest President of the second half of the 20th Century.

I think when we vote on conservative purity and not what is in the best interest of the country we end up with Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. I don’t think we need or can afford a second Carter term.

So I will vote for McCain.

Thank you, and you. This is the kind of debate I'd like to see more of. I might suggest that someone start it as a separate post, in fact. I think this specific topic is far too underaddressed not to.

If I'm mostly silent now, it's because I want to watch to see where the thread goes from here. I'm listening.