I've said all along that I am not a McCain fan by any means. My disdain for Obama trumps my disdain for McCain, but I've figured most of this campaign season that I would vote for neither.
But one thing you can say about McCain and his "Country first" mantra: When he talks about he would rather lose an election than lose a war, he isn't just talking rhetoric. When he supported the surge, the Iraq war was already very unpopular. Polls showed a majority of the Americans supporting an end to the war and bringing the troops home. If McCain simply blew with the political winds, like most politicians, he would have kept quiet. Instead, he supported the unpopular option: The surge. That could have wrecked his campaign. If it had failed, it certainly would have wrecked his campaign. But he urged it anyway.
I admire him for that. One, he wasn't willing to waver from what he thought was right just because the political climate was against him. And, two, the fact that it was such a resounding success proves that he knows how to execute a war. Those are good qualities to have in a president. And even though I don't think his domestic policies would be policies I could agree with (immigration, guns, etc.), I also wouldn't worry about the security of our nation under his leadership.
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Politics, it seems to me, all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. ~Richard Armour
I think McCain can be taught and will stop if he sees an error in judgement, Hence Pahlin, I also think if he had a real choice it would have been Lieberman beside him not pahlin.
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"There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory." --American author and humorist Mark Twain (1835-1910)
McCain: Country first?
