Today I get to go and vote in the California primary. Since my man Fred is out of the race, I've fallen back on voting for John McCain. Rather than recap all my reasons for loathing Mitt "Gordon Gecko" Romney, let me lay out the positive reasons for voting for McCain.
He was against the Bush tax cuts. President Bush just gave congress a budget that is $405B+ in the red. For a family of four, that adds more than $5700 to the debt that they will eventually have to pay off. Cutting taxes in the middle of a deficit amounts to a payday loan.
He was against the prescription drug plan supported by President Bush and all of the other candidates. One more time, that's $5700+ more debt for your family this year and next year as well. We're so far out of money, it's not even funny.
John McCain will win the war on Islamofascism. Period. He'll also call it what it is, not a "War on Terror."
If you hadn't told me that McCain-Feingold existed, I would never have known. I don't see that it's such a big deal. Money will get into politics one way or another, like water going around a rock in a stream. Whatever.
If you want to deport all the illegals, go ahead, but you can do it without me. First, show me how you will replace them in our fields and other businesses. Show a balance sheet for a California Central Valley farm both before and after the illegal aliens have been deported. Yes, I want you to behave like a grown up. Maybe you can work out the numbers on a napkin over a salad.
He can win the general election. You can't win an election with only the fringe, and that's all Huckabee and Romney are drawing right now. President Reagan won with Democrat votes. The hard line, "true" conservative isn't likely to get many crossover votes, particularly when they can't even get the moderates of their own party. Why waste your vote on a doomed nominee?
That just about covers it. I don't agree with everything he says, but for my money, McCain is the best choice.
I've voted for him as well. But I am very troubled by his tax stand. The only thing that makes me feel ok about it si the sentence that never follows the statement that he voted against the tax cuts, and that sentence is, as I understand it, that he said "unless they cut spending." And those words are key - they have to cut spending, AND they should make the tax cuts permanent. They (the govt.) must live within its means.
ReplyDeleteLetting the tax cuts lapse just means more spending. It's time to put an end to that. I hope he is up to it.
Don't like him. Don't like ANY of them. Liars and prevaricators all.
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KT Cat,
ReplyDeleteThanks for providing some insight. Those are some good reasons. I disagree with your approach on the tax and spend issue, but it is an honorable and consistent one. WRT McCain-Feingold, I guess it comes down to values and what we think is important. I am hypervigilant over all Bill of Rights threats, so this law is particularly odious to me.
Also, thanks for adding grace to the political discussion by talking about McCain's positive appeal. If you could just stop the ad-homninem attacks on Mitt Romney, I would be delighted.