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Originally Posted by Motorboat Cruiser
And for my conservative friends, Ann Coulter supports Hillary over McCain. If she can do it, so can you.  |
You may not be so far off for me. And if Ann hears about it and wants to show me some "appreciation", all the better.
I honestly cannot see myself voting for McCain. With his win in CA, which Romney really had to have to stay viable IMO, it looks truly inevitable that he will be the Republican nominee. For the first time ever (with the exception of two candidates in local AZ elections), I may be voting democrat. Or I may just choose not to vote. Or I may hope for a third party candidate I can support. I've always been one to see a third party vote as a throw away vote, but for the first time I can truly understand those that have taken a stand prior to this with such a candidate.
The only thing that could possibly make me vote for McCain would be that I think he "gets" the war on terror. That said, though, I think the man is unstable and has a temper that could really get us into trouble. You think we're in trouble with Iraq, wait until some foreign leader pisses off McCain. Like I posted earlier, McCain scares me in a DeNiro-as-Capone-with-a-baseball-bat kind of way, and I can think of no better way to describe it. I have always thought the Clintons were the most ruthless people politically, but if Mccain is President he will surpass them by light years, and crossing him will be the kiss of death - politically certainly, and maybe even literally.
However, we needed a Ford and a Carter to get a Reagan, and maybe this is what it will take to get another.
I've never been so completely unmotivated or discouraged politically. Please hold off on your cheering until I can at least dry my eyes.
Edited to add: There is one other factor that could cause me to vote for McCain. The Supreme court is getting older and older, with 4 or 5 justices over 70. I have no doubt his nominees wouldn't be stellar (my definition of stellar, of course), but they would be far, far better than the choices of Obama or Clinton.