Rethinking McCain

[dolfan]

Okay, I'm on record about saying how I'd never vote for John McCain.

Call me a flip-flopper.

This week has made me realize how much is at stake in this election. I've been eager, ready to vote for Bob Barr in a state where McCain will win in a walk. McCain stands against every single principle I hold dear in terms of government's size and scope. He's not going to change, either.

But, when I really, soberly look at the Court as fashioned by Obama, and I consider that this man is so far ahead in so many polls (although some polls show small margins) and I think really what this nation might become with him as president, I conclude my only practical choice now is McCain or no one at all.

I don't want to do anything to minutely help Obama become president. Having observed him since he clinched the nomination (not that I doubted it before then), he has moved arrogantly (the faux seal), hypocricitally (reneging on public campaign funding), and when it mattered constitutionally, he moved against one of our most basic rights (criticizing the Supreme Court's 5-4 thinnest of margin abandonment of the DC gun ban). He will fold like a paper tent when a Democrat Congress moves to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine (although he says he opposes it), and Pelosi has made it clear that Congress will do just that next term. He will sail appellate appointments through the Senate because there will likely be a Democrat supermajority. There's simply too much at stake to allow his opponent to go down in flames.

I intend to vote for McCain. Begrudgingly, but vote for him just the same.

[DeWayneTN]

My sentiments exactly.

[MacUser]

This is exactly what he knows also. We have core principles and he is abusing that fact.

[Shellie]

I'm not voting for McCain. I'm voting against Obama.

[Full Quiver]

If the dems get this oil futures bill through Congress and gas drops drastically in price then they dems will win an overwhelming majority in Congress and it won't matter who is president because they will be able to override any veto.

[AllenNope]

Still can't bring myself to vote for McCain in good conscious. I believe that you could easily replace Obama with McCain's name regarding all the points you made about Obama.

There appears not to be a lesser of 2 evils. Thankfully neither one of them will do so much damage that God can not make good out of it.

As of right now I am still writing in someone. Not sure yet who but I will write in someone.