As a preface I must say that I’m not a rabid McCain supporter. There’s a good deal of his positions on things (immigration, foreign policy, etc.) that I have serious problems with. He’s not my favorite candidate of all the options that we started out with – not by a long shot!
BUT…
He has become my default candidate of choice for 2 primary reasons, which outweigh all other issues in my perspective…
- The war
- The Supreme Court
1. The war – the war on terror is huge and must be won. And the central focus of that war has become Iraq. Whether you think we should have gone into Iraq in the first place or not is irrelevant now. We are there and the terrorists themselves have made it into a HUGE warzone in the war on terror by focusing so much of their resistance on Western presence there. We CANNOT lose there. We must FINISH what was begun (in a much wiser way than it was begun, admittedly). If we don’t, two things will surely happen…
A) Iraq will become a hotbed for terrorist activity and training, and B) Iran will become the most dominant country in the region. Both of these will spell “L-O-S-S” for the U.S. led coalition in the war on terror. It would be 2 GIANT steps backward to allow that to happen.
Obama vows he will get the troops out as rapidly as he can. McCain vows to continue to stabilize and support Iraq in a democratic direction. I can’t vote for Obama on this issue – I must vote for McCain.
2. The Supreme Court – The next President of the United States will, in all probability, appoint at least 2 justices to the aging United States Supreme Court in his first term alone. If you don’t think this matters, look at the recent ruling on handgun possession. It was a 5-4 decision. One opinion more or less on either side would have dramatically impacted that ruling.
Obama will (if elected), by all clear evaluation of his past, undoubtedly appoint judges who are on the left side of the scale – justices who would have ruled to uphold the ban on handgun possession, and the decision would have been very different in the end. The Constitutional right to bear arms would have been severely supressed. Along with this comes the obvious and safe assumption that in other rulings (abortion, same-sex-marriage, parental rights, etc.) the less traditional stance would be the ruling of such a court. Such a court would undoubtedly move our country in a less traditional direction and chip away at many of the most important societal structures upon which our nation is based. With this in mind, I just can’t vote for Obama (no matter how winsome and like-able he is).
McCain has openly proclaimed that he will appoint “strict constructionist” justices – which means he’d appoint people who would work to keep the basis for our laws undergirded by the intent of the makers of the Constitution. Such a court would clearly uphold traditional marriage, would strengthen parental rights, and would understand that the “rights” of the individual include those of the unborn. Our nation would move in a much healthier direction – in my opinion. On this issue – I have to vote for McCain.
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I agree with your political position 100%. I just hope and pray that McCain chooses a solid Conservative as his running mate. In any case, the election is in God’s hands. May He be glorified.
Mal
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