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The McCain quandary

Posted 08 Feb 2008 in 2008 election, Barack Obama, gun control, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Republicans

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”
- Joseph Goebbels

For months, the media and their Democrat handlers have anointed John McCain as the Republican nominee. They’ve flooded the echo chamber with the notion that he’s “moderate” and “electable.” And that he was the only candidate capable of defeating Hillary Clinton.

I’m sorry, but that’s complete bovine excrement. There were several candidates who could have easily defeated Clinton and Obama. Thompson could have united the Republican party and plowed the Dems like so much topsoil, but his campaign lethargy was his undoing.

I wish I liked McCain. But I can’t say that. I can’t even pretend to like the guy. To me, he’s like a more-liberal President Bush. And who needs that? Several weeks ago, I looked deeper into McCain’s record and his positions on the issues and found very little to like. So much so that I wrote a post citing my reasons for eliminating him from my consideration set.

sh*t_sammichAnd now, America is faced with the dilemma of which sh*t sandwich to bite – Clinton, Obama, or McCain – I’m trying to convince myself that McCain’s doesn’t have quite as many peanuts.

Sure, McCain served honorably in the military, but his career in the Senate has been detestable. Every time he “reaches across the aisle,” conservatism takes a back seat to the liberal agenda. And America takes another step toward Marxism.

The only area where I’m comfortable with McCain is when it comes to combating the threat of Islamic extremism (with the exception of his plan to close Gitmo). And maybe, just maybe, he’d be decent on the appointment of judges to the Supreme Court. However, in the latter capacity, his penchant for cooperation with Democrats gives me cause for doubt. Combined with his ideas on campaign finance regulation, amnesty for illegals, his predilection toward gun control, and his willingness to join the global warming panic, he’s just too uncomfortably close to being a Democrat. Which explains why he nearly switched parties back in ’01.

Until November, Senator McCain has a lot of convincing the do.

Posted by FullMetalPatriot
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT

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