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Three Admirable Reasons to Vote McCain

1) You think his tax policy is sound

This is either because you are incredibly wealthy and want to retain all the money you can, or you’ve been misled by the Republican promises of “trickle-down economics”. But all the evidence of the Reagan and Bush tax plans points to the contrary. Rich people, when given tax breaks, don’t invest in the country’s future, they invest in their own futures.

If it’s because you’re very wealthy and want to conserve your money, well I can’t argue with that, except to suggest that maybe you want to show a little compassion to your fellow citizens. Besides, I’m not worried about this group, since they’re in an extreme minority. What worries me is that in order to make sure this minority achieves a majority vote, Republicans have tied their provably-false tax policies in with more morality-focused promises:

2) You want to stop abortion

I totally sympathize with this. Who wouldn’t want to live in a world where abortion could be avoided?* (Maybe abortion doctors, but they can find other jobs.)

But the truth of the matter is that five Republican Presidents have had twenty-five years between them to outlaw abortion, and we’re still deeply divided on the issue. Even John McCain seems not particularly committed (when asked to vote whether he supports Roe v. Wade, he declined to vote either way).

I believe with all my heart that McCain is yet another Republican Presidential contender who is promising change on the abortion issue, and who has no plans at all to deliver on that promise. I can’t predict the future, but I have twenty-five years of evidence. Instead of potentially wasting your vote on this heated issue, you should probably do more to prevent accidental pregnancies, like Obama wants to do.

3) You want to win the war on terror

It would be great if we could clean up every single terrorist, brush off our hands and say, “whoo! That’s done. Everybody loves America, again.” But we’re fighting an enemy whose goal is war itself, and by bin Laden’s own words: destryong America’s economy. How do you fight an enemy whose primary goal is war?

* There are, of course, many more reasons why abortion shouldn’t be made unsafe and illegal, but I wanted to concentrate on the aspects that McCain voters would agree with right away.

Comments [2]

20 October 2008, 07:42

  1. 3) You want to win the war on terror

    See, here’s the problem with this “logic” – life isn’t a GI Joe cartoon, and our military isn’t fighting a group like COBRA. (Even if our current president thinks otherwise.) These people believe that they’re right, and their enemy is wrong, and until we change our approach to actually address the ideology (instead of just trying to bomb people), this ‘war’ is unwinnable.

    — M-D    20 October 2008, 22:25    #

  2. What?
    1.The “change” he peddles is not new. We’ve seen it before. It is change that diminishes individual liberty for the soft authoritarianism of socialism. It is a populist appeal that disguises government mandated wealth redistribution as tax cuts for the middle class, falsely blames capitalism for the social policies and government corruption (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) that led to the current turmoil in our financial markets, fuels contempt for commerce and trade by stigmatizing those who run successful small and large businesses, and exploits human imperfection as a justification for a massive expansion of centralized government. Obama’s appeal to the middle class is an appeal to the the proletariat.
    2. Whether or not you truly believe for yourself that McCain cannot or will not work to fight against abortion (and, of course, one such fight is inherent in the appointment of Supreme Court Justices), it should be self-evident that Obama is the most pro-Abortion candidate ever. He is, in fact, the most extreme pro-Abortion legislator ever to serve in either house of the United States Congress. Citing FOCA as one of his first priorities, if elected, Obama cannot in truth advocate a position apart from what his history has demonstrated to be extreme.
    3. Perhaps Joe Biden said it best of all – the office of presidency does not lend itself to on the job training, and Obama’s two foriegn policies assertions – voting against the surge, and his complacency pertaining to Russian aggression ( not to mention that he and Biden were in a minority in voting against an amendment to condemn MoveOn.org’s “General Betray Us” ad in the NY Times) – serve to validate Bidens recent comments that Obama would be tested via a generated international crisis…and that he would need help. Contrary to the talking points on the left, that the war on terror required nothing more than a police action, our America ideology is and has been under attack for years – this is a war of freedom, of our way of life.

    — CK    27 October 2008, 11:45    #