McCain-Romney Showdown February 1, 2008
Posted by taoist in McCain, Politics, Republicans.trackback
McCain is drawing a lot of fire. He’s criticized as a RINO and is drawing the fire of lots of prominent conservatives – who now have to step up to the plate for Romney.
I think Romney’s definitely better on the economic issues, and probably just as good or better on a lot of the other issues, although McCain is pretty awesome on foreign policy. While I agree that McCain has some problems, and has his name headlined on a couple of bad bills, I think its pretty rash for conservatives to say that they would vote for Hillary if McCain was the candidate. First of all, Iraq, Islamic terrorism, and foreign policy is still a huge issue, and very few conservatives disagree with McCain on those issues. Second, McCain is clean and has always fought against pork and corruption, another big issue many conservatives have with government. Voting against McCain just because he’s not with you on all the issues is just stupid.
Here’s the deal. McCain doesn’t support torture or spying on Americans, or Blackwater. He doesn’t support the death agenda of the far right. The so called Christians.
Romney will bring the end times, and it will be ugly. Neocons know it, and they savor it. They think they will be saved.
When do I tell them they are the devil himself.
That’s quite the statement. So you think Romney is the antichrist, and is leading the religious right astray to usher in the end times. Wow.
I have to say though, I don’t think Romney supports torture either. And the torture argument is always framed the wrong way, and everybody knows it. Right now, the left will pick the harshest interrogation technique used, and criticize Bush and the right for using it, calling it torture. You will never hear them say what technique would be acceptable, because then they would have to stop criticizing the right when that technique started to be the technique we used. If waterboarding was really so horrible, you wouldn’t have protesters doing it repeatedly at every anti-war/anti-Bush protest they had.
Spying on Americans? The constitution gives the president the explicit authority to conduct foreign surveillance to protect Americans. If American citizens are talking overseas with people that the executive branch thinks are terrorists, you honestly don’t want those conversations overheard, and you honestly think that that conversation shouldn’t fall under that explicit authorization for surveillance?
Death Agenda? I’d like to hear this explained.