Stark Differences
March 10th, 2008 at 11:34am KMorrison
One thing that all the campaigns seem to agree on is that there are stark differences between the positions of the Democrat candidates and Senator McCain. As someone who tends to be a middle of the roader, it’s striking how far left the Democrats have gone. Just looking at domestic issues, taxes, health care, spending, and free trade, there is no sign of moderation. Senators Clinton and Obama are championing big government in a big way, and it makes me nervous. They’re not offering modifications or refinements, they’re offering huge government programs, massive regulations, and red tape. Even when packaged with the moniker of change this is still poor governance, and economics.
Entry Filed under: Barack Obama, Campaign Issues, Hillary Clinton, John McCain
5 Comments
1. Eric T | March 10th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
I think McCain will do well in the election, the democrats want big change, big government, big taxes. Hillary and Obama have some extremist views on social issues. Many people from both parties will be able to appreciate a president like John McCain that is not going turn the economy upside down and to try to change everything and offer new government programs for every new problem at our expense. John McCain’s has real leadership experience.
2. Matt DiBari (Mattpat11) | March 10th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
I consider myself a middle of the roader as well. I’d have almost as hard a time hypothetically voting for a fringe right candidate as I would fringe left. I also wouldn’t have a problem voting for a moderate Democrat.
Hillary Clinton, and especially Barack Obama, are fringe left. Heck, I actually think Barack is significantly left of Hillary on issues I find important. I’d vote for a broom if the GOP put it up to oppose one of those two.
Luckily the GOP has a candidate that I don’t have to put a protest vote for. We have a man that is right on the war, right on terrorism, right on spending and right on foreign affairs. John McCain is a man that I would support enthusiastically, even if we didn’t have such a scary alternative. He’s the best possible candidate, in either party for the country.
3. NJ McCain | March 10th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
As a small government conservative, I am so pleased that Senator McCain has been railing against pork-barrel projects for so long. The GOP has become a party of largesse and the Democrats are far worse. We need to get back on track as a party.
Listen closely to Obama and Clinton and you will hear your taxes being raised and government interfering in your daily life. I do not have that worry with Senator McCain—in fact, I’m pretty comfortable knowing that taxes wouldn’t go up, but rather, down under his leadership.
4. Realist | March 11th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
Surely you jest. How can you say McCain is right on anything. The war is based on a lie. There are no American intersets, there are only no bid contractors paid for by our taxes. That small government that created a war, and a Department of Homeland Security that puts 17 people on each gate at land locked non international airports, while you could drive a train of trucks across our land borders and sneak a bus in through any sea port. Yeah we’re safe now and we’ll be safe with him right, while are forces are deployed fighting on two fronts, maintaining, bases around the world. Well guess what folks because of the idiocy of it all, not that it is in the realm of probability, but there is no one here but the mamed, injured and those suffering PTSD to protect the Country. I am a 12 year veteran and I know from personal experience that anti american sentiment has been on the rise for years all around the world including with our allied nations. Although a true hero, then now and forever, John McCain is not right for this. He barely made it out of High School, got into the back door of the Naval Academy because his father and grandfather were Naval Elite and pulled strings. He barely made it out of there (5th from the bottom) and through the same priveleged means got through flight school He has never so much as led a single mission, or even had a successful combat landing. He does not have the brain power (we have one “special” president) we don’t need another one. His big plan is to just keep everything the way it is and the economy, whats that? I don’t quite get that.
5. Almiranta | March 11th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
McCain has been around long enough to be able to go back and see how his positions on key issues have remained consistent over time.
Hillary and Barack are kind of trying to appear to move toward the center, without doing so in such an obvious way that they might upset the far Left wing that they need so much. But if we go back into their histories, for example reading Barack’s book or Hillary’s college thesis (if a copy is available—she has threatened to sue if it is published) we can see the politics they USED to espouse, and wonder if they are really so different today.