I Gave Money to Mitt Romney. I Gave Money to Huckabee. But I Voted for McCain.
From the beginning, my concern has primarily been to get a Republican elected. Any republican is better than any Democrat. My key issue is that of social abortion. I think using abortions as a means of birth control is just plain evil. Democrats have a litmus test when selecting or approving judges. That is will they support Roe v Wade or not. Since life is not defined in the constitution and judges have invented a "right" of privacy many judges have taken to legislating from the bench. A democrat is going to appoint judges that do just that. At least with a Republican you have a chance at getting a judge that will judge and not legislate. The point being that whoever can beat Hillary (or perhaps Obama) is my candidate.
At first I thought McCain was unelectable. He doesn't have the party elite supporting him and the guy always looked like an angy white man. Have you ever seen someone so white? He frankly scared me. But the guy learned to smile. And in no small part to that smile he started racking up the delegates.
Up to Florida it was clear it was either going to be Mitt Romney or McCain as nominee. If the economy was the most important thing to you, you choose Mitt. For everything else most people choose McCain. I've been listening to the other pundits about McCain's supposed anti-conservative record. I find it somewhat lacking to be true. The guy has a perfect record voting for life. Most of the time he votes to cut taxes. And he fights to cut government spending. The two things he supposedly is bad on is immigration and campaign finance reform.
McCain Feingold has loop holes. That's bad. So what? I mean what other bill got passed that even attempted campaign finance reform? The American people hate the fact that special interests have so much power in the country. Some argue if the government would just get out of our personal lives (shrink government) that money would automatically have less of an impact. But the argument is circular because you can't get government out of our lives until you limit the effect that money has on how law makers choose to expand or contract the size of government.
http://www.ontheissues.org/celeb/John_McCain_Immigration.htm
Regarding immigration, it's a complicated and emotional issue. I may not agree on every aspect of his immigration policy but we have do have several things in common. 1.) Stop or at least severely slow the number of illegals coming into America. 2.) We won't be able to find and deport all the illegals so we need a practical plan that get's them paying taxes instead of getting a free ride on our entitlements. 3.) This country has had waves of immigration throughout its history. (INHO It's a little disingenuous to be so protectionist now.) 4.) McCain voted Yes to making English the official language, voted yes on building the border fence.
Q: Will you pledge to veto any immigration bill that involves amnesty?
A: Yes, of course, and we never proposed amnesty. But then you've still got two other aspects of this issue that have to be resolved as well. We need to sit down as Americans and recognize these are God's children as well. And they need some protection under the law; they need some of our love and compassion. I want to assure you that I'll enforce the borders first. We'll solve this immigration problem.
Immigration is a hard problem. He sounds like a guy that is really trying to solve it while at the same time being a compassionate Christian. What's so bad about that?
To wrap it up, McCain has the best shot at stopping a Democrat in November. He has proven he can work across the line with Democrats and even attract some of them to his side (i.e. Lieberman.) He has a strong showing among independents. He'll either appoint pro-life judges or constructionists. Romney will have a much harder time beating Hillary. Huckabee just doesn't have a shot at winning the nomination. (not this year anyway...)
-Peace
From the beginning, my concern has primarily been to get a Republican elected. Any republican is better than any Democrat. My key issue is that of social abortion. I think using abortions as a means of birth control is just plain evil. Democrats have a litmus test when selecting or approving judges. That is will they support Roe v Wade or not. Since life is not defined in the constitution and judges have invented a "right" of privacy many judges have taken to legislating from the bench. A democrat is going to appoint judges that do just that. At least with a Republican you have a chance at getting a judge that will judge and not legislate. The point being that whoever can beat Hillary (or perhaps Obama) is my candidate.
At first I thought McCain was unelectable. He doesn't have the party elite supporting him and the guy always looked like an angy white man. Have you ever seen someone so white? He frankly scared me. But the guy learned to smile. And in no small part to that smile he started racking up the delegates.
Up to Florida it was clear it was either going to be Mitt Romney or McCain as nominee. If the economy was the most important thing to you, you choose Mitt. For everything else most people choose McCain. I've been listening to the other pundits about McCain's supposed anti-conservative record. I find it somewhat lacking to be true. The guy has a perfect record voting for life. Most of the time he votes to cut taxes. And he fights to cut government spending. The two things he supposedly is bad on is immigration and campaign finance reform.
McCain Feingold has loop holes. That's bad. So what? I mean what other bill got passed that even attempted campaign finance reform? The American people hate the fact that special interests have so much power in the country. Some argue if the government would just get out of our personal lives (shrink government) that money would automatically have less of an impact. But the argument is circular because you can't get government out of our lives until you limit the effect that money has on how law makers choose to expand or contract the size of government.
http://www.ontheissues.org/celeb/John_McCain_Immigration.htm
Regarding immigration, it's a complicated and emotional issue. I may not agree on every aspect of his immigration policy but we have do have several things in common. 1.) Stop or at least severely slow the number of illegals coming into America. 2.) We won't be able to find and deport all the illegals so we need a practical plan that get's them paying taxes instead of getting a free ride on our entitlements. 3.) This country has had waves of immigration throughout its history. (INHO It's a little disingenuous to be so protectionist now.) 4.) McCain voted Yes to making English the official language, voted yes on building the border fence.
Q: Will you pledge to veto any immigration bill that involves amnesty?
A: Yes, of course, and we never proposed amnesty. But then you've still got two other aspects of this issue that have to be resolved as well. We need to sit down as Americans and recognize these are God's children as well. And they need some protection under the law; they need some of our love and compassion. I want to assure you that I'll enforce the borders first. We'll solve this immigration problem.
Immigration is a hard problem. He sounds like a guy that is really trying to solve it while at the same time being a compassionate Christian. What's so bad about that?
To wrap it up, McCain has the best shot at stopping a Democrat in November. He has proven he can work across the line with Democrats and even attract some of them to his side (i.e. Lieberman.) He has a strong showing among independents. He'll either appoint pro-life judges or constructionists. Romney will have a much harder time beating Hillary. Huckabee just doesn't have a shot at winning the nomination. (not this year anyway...)
-Peace
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