Originally posted by: loki8481
this republican looks forward to voting for McCain.
I'm not a paleoconservative by any stretch of the imagination, but it makes me scratch my head wondering how they could support a big government liberal who's bent over backwards pandering to the unions and has never actually stood up to his own party, especially when he's going to have control over the house and senate too.
2 terms of single-party rule was enough for me.
While I'm not entirely sure what sort of conservative you consider yourself, but I never got the impression you are the GWB variety of Republican. And how much of an improvement, really, is McCain? He might not pander to unions, but he panders like hell to the religious right, despite the fact that his personal beliefs clearly oppose the religious direction his party is taking. He DID stand up to his party, I'll admit, but only until he decided he wanted to be President, and then suddenly his (very admirable) stances on religion and torture and a lot of more traditional conservative positions went right out the window. He didn't change his mind, he just knows he needs the votes of Bible thumping, '24' watching new-age conservatives to win.
Obama might not be a good candidate on the issues for some conservatives, but McCain seems like a poor choice to "look forward to". Instead, he seems more like the kind of guy the Republicans were left with when they couldn't find anyone who wasn't a terrible candidate, sort of like how Democrats ended up with Kerry in 2004. At a certain point, it can't be about the issues as much as it's about the kind of man or woman you want in the Oval Office.