McCain: in the end it's matter of character
McCain is an American. Obama is a cosmopolitan commie (or maybe even an alien from Uranus.) It's that simple.
The strangest thing about many of the anti-McCainites in my small corner of the blogosphere is that they literally worship Dubya and were till recently Romneyites or, amazingly, Rudyites! Ironically Bush and Romney (and obviously especially the pro-choice Giuliani) are IMO as "liberal" or more so than Mac.
Their main objections to Mac seem to be 1) that Mac called Falwell and Robertson "agents of intolerance" which is not an untenable opinion and pretty obvious to anyone who is not a biblical literalist; 2) his "amnesty" bill which may not have been perfect but at least was an attempt at a bipartisan solution to a problem which must be addressed and 3) the Gang of 14 - which is particularly ironic considering that they got Roberts and Alito confirmed.
It's getting to the point where I can no longer regard most of the socalled "religious conservative" anti-McCainites as adults. They are as emotional and irrational as leftists.
That said, I do not agree with Mac 100% but, as Reagan said, "My 80 percent ally is not my 20 percent enemy." Maybe I only agree with him less than 80% but, when it comes to the Prez, I'm a single-issue voter: America first! which is not what Obama or anyone on the left believes.
I'm not a "conservative." I'm a classical Lockean liberal/Whig Americanist (if I may coin a word) and McCain is both a true American and an Americanist. Obama and most extremists on both sides are neither true Americans nor Americanists.
The strangest thing about many of the anti-McCainites in my small corner of the blogosphere is that they literally worship Dubya and were till recently Romneyites or, amazingly, Rudyites! Ironically Bush and Romney (and obviously especially the pro-choice Giuliani) are IMO as "liberal" or more so than Mac.
Their main objections to Mac seem to be 1) that Mac called Falwell and Robertson "agents of intolerance" which is not an untenable opinion and pretty obvious to anyone who is not a biblical literalist; 2) his "amnesty" bill which may not have been perfect but at least was an attempt at a bipartisan solution to a problem which must be addressed and 3) the Gang of 14 - which is particularly ironic considering that they got Roberts and Alito confirmed.
It's getting to the point where I can no longer regard most of the socalled "religious conservative" anti-McCainites as adults. They are as emotional and irrational as leftists.
That said, I do not agree with Mac 100% but, as Reagan said, "My 80 percent ally is not my 20 percent enemy." Maybe I only agree with him less than 80% but, when it comes to the Prez, I'm a single-issue voter: America first! which is not what Obama or anyone on the left believes.
I'm not a "conservative." I'm a classical Lockean liberal/Whig Americanist (if I may coin a word) and McCain is both a true American and an Americanist. Obama and most extremists on both sides are neither true Americans nor Americanists.
posted by Joubert at 11:15 PM
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