The case for McCain

I’m not certain how good a president McCain will make; I’m only certain he’d be the better one.
I’d like to see America remain a capitalist nation, safe from terrorist threat, victorious on the current battlefields, maintaining a strong military, and with more conservative judicial apppointments.
I hope Americans are taxed lower, and that taxes are not used to achieve fairness or equality of assets, nor to punish nor reward.

My son is in the military. I trust John McCain to be his Commander-in-Chief.

The Court.

Reasons for McCain/Palin:

Life and liberty:

In a Fallen world, where there can be no candidate who is perfect, undamaged by the Fall, we can only look for the relatively better against the relatively worse.

McCain and Palin understand that. Even though he has suffered terribly at the hands of the communists, he still extends his hand across the aisle when appropriate. Far from throwing non-sycophantic media off his campaign planes, He has even forgiven his torturers. Gov. Palin has shown this in loving her errant but repentant daughter and fiance who didn’t wait til marriage after getting engaged. Those two show moral fortitude and responsibility, keeping the baby and working to support the baby, in spite of the hateful glare of the public eye. We see the outworking of law and gospel.

McCain and Palin also show love when faced with damage by the Fall. Trig (named for St. Olaf Trygvason) has Downs’ Syndrome, yet Mrs. Palin did not have him murdered. Todd Palin, a man’s man, nonetheless positively dotes on Trig, even though Trig will likely never gratify him through projection as a sports hero or business success. This country needs that kind of role model. Both the McCain’s and the Palin’s have larger than average children, showing that children are not a punishment, but a blessing. The McCain’s adopted an orphan from Mother Teressa’s orphanage, because she needed a family, not merely because they could have none of their own – for they have several of their own. Whatever TV makes them look like, they have real love for others and welcome them into their family.

McCain is a man who believes in honor, and being honorable. He has Sarah Palin to help him grow in understanding what is right, and what is wrong in areas where he hasn’t previously understood, such as human embryonic research.

McCain has promised to nominate only Constitutionally-faithful judges. Not illegal legislating from the bench, not even stare decisis where that is contrary to the Constitution. (Stare decisis would have upheld Dred Scott as well as Roe v. Wade).

Sarah Palin is the most openly pro-life candidate since Ronald Reagan. In a nation already guilty of the brutal murders of 50 million of its own children, she is a breath of fresh air.

She is a regular American. She is not an east-coast blue-blood like nearly all candidates that have ever run in this country’s history. She is the only candidate who is middle class. The only candidate with chief executive experience. The only candidate to have negotiated with foreign powers.

She and McCain have sons in Iraq. McCain himself is a veteran, and his family has served this country for generations. They have the soldier’s understanding that war is a horrible thing not to be sought for glory, but that there are worse things even than war, which war sometimes must be used to stop.

If McCain/Palin are not elected, abortion and homosexual “marriage” will be the law of the land for the rest of our lives. We would no longer have the political or religious freedom to object, for DOMA would be repealed and FOCA and the thought crimes bills would all be passed. Electing them will hold that off for a while. Salt to slow decay. The restraining of evil and lauding of the righteous. (Romans 13).

We will not be forced to pay for the murders of babies with our income at the muzzle of a gun.

Our churches will not be forced to host the black mass – demonic rite – of homosexual “marriage”

We may be able to prevent kindergartners from being taught that homosexual sex is normal and that they and older children need to experiment to find out what ‘preference’ they are.

Sarah Palin has a strong track record of taking down corruption – even in her own party. She has an approval rating of 80% in Alaska among both Democrats and Republicans, whereas the Pelosi-Reid congress has a 9% approval rating. The people who know her, like how she does things, and in a non-partisan fashion.

I agree with the posts above and especially second the mentions on abortion and the courts. The next president will appoint SCOTUS justices and they will more than likely be replacements of the most liberal current members. Swap one liberal for a conservative and you overturn Roe. Swap a liberal for a liberal and you have Roe for another generation. God is in control and I’m not worried about the outcome.

The Life issue. I will not sin against my conscience.

I forgot, in the post above, to mention McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin as V.P. candidate. She is an exciting choice, and stirring in her support for life. She is smart, and has a good sense of the pulse of the American people. She will make a good Vice-President, and, someday, perhaps a President.

Where to begin? McCain has many flaws, and I know some of them. But my reasons for voting FOR him are as follows:

1. He would appoint judges who are likely to limit Roe v. Wade.

2. He will manage foreign policy well. Enemies of America will respect, and even fear him. He will understand how to prosecute and win the wars we are now fighting.

3. He will more or less preserve the free-market character of our economy. Including maintaining our place in the global economy which has produced a lot of our prosperity in the past 15 years (yes, I’m giving Pres. Clinton credit for recognising this).

4. He will try to reduce the growth of government power and spending. An area in which Pres. Bush really failed.

5. His health care plan is hard to understand, but it appears to be an attempt to inject market forces into the health care system, which it sorely needs. McCain would try to make health care insurance an individual thing rather than a employer/employee thing. Which would make it portable with the individual, even if the individual worker changes jobs or moves from state to state. He does this by taking the tax breaks for health insurance away from the employers and gives them to the individual workers (thus the falsehood that McCain is going to tax health care). It would also give patients some concept of what health care providers are charging, thus forcing providers to compete, which would drive costs down, which would drive the cost of insurance down.

6. He will have a comprehensive and pro-independence energy policy. Come on, people. Jobs generated by an industry whose product (energy) is in high and growing demand will be good, family sustaining, economy growing jobs. We can’t afford to throw them away.

7. He will take a sane approach to immigration and hopefully rebuild the Republican’s relationship with Hispanics (if you don’t care about the relationship between Hispanics and the Republicans, this doesn’t matter to you, but I DO care about it).

8. He is probably the politician most likely to eliminate torture (and have a realistic definition of what torture is) in the United States.

9. He will not treat his political oponents like enemies of the state.

10. He will oppose the “fairness doctrine”.

11. He will not interfere with the 2nd Amendment.

13. He will not raise taxes during an economic crisis.

There are probably more reasons, but I have limited time to think about this. There are also a few reasons to worry about McCain, but that wasn’t the question.

I voted for John McCain on Saturday because he believes unborn children have a fundamental, intrinsic right to life. He does not believe they are subhuman and therefore unworthy of protection by our laws and Constitution. Although I have some misgivings regarding some past votes on stem cell research, he has a record of pro-life votes as a U.S. Senator and I believe as President he would never sign the Freedom of Choice Act or allow the Hyde Amendment to be repealed.

I’m pretty indifferent to the issues that have gotten most of the attention in this campaign. This year I’m basically a single-issue voter.

The Great McCain Story You’ve Probably Forgotten – What an old anecdote about Mo Udall in the hospital reveals about McCain’s character.

For the past few years, Udall has lain ill with Parkinson’s disease in a veterans hospital in Northeast Washington, which is where we were heading. Every few weeks, McCain drives over to pay his respects….

A nurse entered and seemed surprised to find anyone there, and it wasn’t long before I found out why: Almost no one visits anymore. In his time, which was not very long ago, Mo Udall was one of the most-sought-after men in the Democratic Party. Yet as he dies in a veterans hospital a few miles from the Capitol, he is visited regularly only by a single old political friend, John McCain. “He’s not going to wake up this time,” McCain said.