To The Conservative Voter

The only option I feel I have is to vote for McCain and hope that he chooses a running mate who is more conservative than he.

I also feel that I only have one option and that is McCain. He was not my choice for the Republican candidate but he is closer to my personal views and stances on the issues than Obama or Hillary.

I have always thought of myself as a "conservative" but sometimes I also wonder. I am a perfect believer that the perfect is the enemy of the good and I get annoyed when campaigns tend to look more like a canonization process where we look for people who are perfect. For a number of reasons that have nothing to do with conservatism (one of them is the abortion issue) I will probably be voting for McCain. I can certainly live with Obama, and I suppose we could survive Hilary but I still feel it is better to have a somewhat conservative than a liberal any day.

I am voting for Alan Keyes.

It will have to be McCain.

McCain. Any other vote would be for a liberal or would be a waste, since a "protest vote" doesn't mean anything in the November general election.

If you have been listening to Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi on military and defense issues for the last year, a vote for Clinton-Obama would put the country at risk.

Yeah, yeah, I'm mad as he*l at the Republicans for betraying their conservative campaign promises and their total lack of competent leadership. But, I don't think that risking national security is a very smart way to get even with GOP.

Why is "Don't vote" not a viable option?

That's my choice, and that's what I am recommending for anyone who cares to ask my opinion.

If you think a candidate is likely to continue our march to ruin -- as I believe McCain, Clinton, and Obama are certain to do -- then how does one make a morally justifiable case for casting a vote for them?

Our government and it's mainstream media PR agency are dead set upon maintaining the status quo; the massive institutionalized plundering of the public through confiscatory taxation, the usury and couterfeiting of the fraudulent central banking cartel, and geopolitically-motivated corporate-sponsored war for conquest and profit. If any Presidential candidate truly stood to threaten this immoral and oppressive staus quo, then the MSM gatekeepers would be sure to publicly marginalize them and destroy their candidacy.

Voting for any of the current "front-runners" is tantamount to assenting to your own serfdom. Voting just facilitates the illusion that we have some sort of control of our own destiny, that we actually have some say in the matter. We do not. We will continue to be the wholly-owned property of the organized crime racket of the extortionary State and it's partners in the Wall St. Mafia. We will continue to deprived of the rights to self-ownership, and ownership of our rightful private property. We will continue to be subject to plunder by interested rent-seekers, and forced to finance mass murder abroad in unlawful occupations. We will continue to be subject to massive invasions of privacy, and the specter of detention with no recourse to due process of law. The Constitution will continue to be ignored. No matter which of the three we vote for.

The best thing Americans can do in November is stay home. Make a statement by refusing to participate in our own undoing.

If or when our government once again becomes an institution of equal justice under the Rule of Law, then I will assent to its workings by voting.

Any American who votes for a candidate who supports the Iraq debacle is an idiot! Our military is broken, we have used our troops until we are breaking them! We have litterally murdered about one million innocent folks or destroyed their lives! Our federal debt is at an all time high! Wake up folks! My first choice was Ron Paul, but you idiots did not support him enough! We need MASSIVE military spending cuts over then next 4 years to even stay solvent! We have NO country threatening to attack us! They lie to us about how we need protection when they can't even defend our borders! I think Obama is the best choice, but I don't support amnesty for illegals here. They all need to be shipped home now! and give Federal immigration enforcement to local police also!

Do you think Obama will support a strong Isreal?

NO

I feel that McCain is the only one many people can rely on. This may only be my opinion, but McCain seems to be more moderate than either Clinton or Obama. This may draw Independent voters, but the Bush label that the Republican party has gained may hurt them.

A very truthful insight, York. Will our country settle for a moderate or are we insistant upon one extreme or the other?

Steve - Not voting is ones perogative BUT it doesn't serve any good purpose. I don't care if someone writes-in Mickey Mouse....it's a vote to be counted. And if a million voters vote for Mickey or Donald or Goffy, it becomes appearant that all other contenders are doing something wrong.

Clark - why do you suppose that the ultra-right is slow to support McCain? Maybe because he is a moderate? He has had left leaning tendencies and has done things the ultra-right don't agree with. Huckabee and Romney were the Right's best chance to keep "things as they are". But McCain pulled not only some of the ultras but some of the less liberal democrats. Like it or not, even I am a registered democrat, but I am in no way, liberal. You know who gets my vote.

OK, Dave. In my opinion, Ron Paul is an idiot. I would never vote for him. I'd write-in Mickey Mouse instead.

Then the Republican Party is on the mend.

Why can't you Repubs get it through your skulls that electing people who support attacking other counties is not going to "protect" you? The people giving you this supposedly "moderate" option, don't give a rodent's rear-end about your silly ideologies, they want war, and more war. They are war profiteers, not "conservatives". Remember? . . . conservatives are against foreign adventurism, and debt spending, and "big government", not FOR these things.

Paranoid Authoritarianism is NOT conservatism, It is the opposite of conservatism. Whatever happened to "the home of the brave" you frightened . . . ?

Not too many NeoCons still around DC these days, Clark. Most have moved on to corporate CEO positions............or retired. All that remains are the bedrock, long-term Conservatives.

Didn't you see Karl Rove ride off into the sunset a few months ago? That should have given you Lefties a clue...........

And many of those Conservatives are Democrats too.................surprise! LOL

Apparently you didn't notice Mr. Rove ride into Mr. McCain's campaign.

John Knight -

"Karl Rove, the president's top political hand since his Texas days, recently gave money to McCain and soon after had a private conversation with the senator. A top McCain adviser said both Mehlman and Rove are now informally advising the campaign."

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0308/8911.html

So Rove gave McCain's campaign money and offered informal advice, eh? ::yawn::
Sounds like one Republican encouraging another................and not much else.

Wow, you Lefties still get riled up when Mr. Rove's name is even mentioned. He must have really hurt you guys way down deep.........

Another choice is to run locally.

Independents from all walks of lif are bound to be better that the bi-partisan joke that's being played on the (sadly) unsuspecting American public.

"Go Independents!"