Don't You Love John McCain?
Sat May 17, 2008 at 10:05:11 AM PDT
At this point, most of us have caucused or voted. There is no point in defending our preferred candidate. There will be a winner soon enough, and I won't presume to predict who that winner will be. Yes, I know that it looks like it will be Obama right now, but HRC has fought her way back before and I don't rule out the possibility of it happening again. At the end of the day, I don't care. I will support our nominee regardless.
If you live in one of the tiny hand full of states who are undecided, or if you are talking to an undecided democrat from one of those states, by all means promote your candidate. However, I would like to honor the fact that both Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama have fought the good fight. Both of them have many, many devoted supporters. The nominee cannot win without the other candidate's supporters.
I'm not worried. I have faith in democrats. For the moment, though, I thought it might be fun to discuss all the things we oppose about John McCain, just for morale.
I don't need to actively wish John McCain harm. Heaven knows he's been through enough in his life. Still, at the risk of appearing malicious, I'll go first.
- He is, currently, a pro-life advocate who wants to overturn Roe v. Wade.
- He thinks our economy is better now then it was in 2000.
- He projects that our country will be in Iraq for 100 years, long after he's gone.
- He called Chelsea Clinton ugly when she was a teenager.
- He feels don't ask, don't tell is working.
- He continues to attempt to block the Webb GI bill.
- Two words? Bomb Iran.
That's just the beginning. I know you all have many, many more reasons.
Irrelevantly, a friend of mine bemoaned Edwards dropping out of the race in part because he's pretty. But you know what? All three of our democrats have got it going on. If this was a beauty contest, we'd have it in the bag. But every one of us is smarter then that.
