Thursday, May 8, 2008

McCain Are You Trying To Break My Heart?

Senator McCain, I had such great hopes for you.

You have been labeled a "maverick", an independent thinker. A man who can work with Democrats because you see "eye to eye" with them on important issues. You are strong on defense, but you understand that military action when taken should be planned out and properly staffed. For us sometimes single issue voters of the Jewish persuasion we know without a doubt that you understand that Israel must be supported and that their enemies are your enemy and not the Liberal view that we have to be nice to our enemies because they had a bad upbringing and were denied Playstations.

Your may not understand economics but you are clear that wasteful earmarks are just that wasteful.Your sorta for keeping undue excess private money out of politics as long as your opponent agrees. You seemed to recognize that pandering to people that their self created financial crisis should be bailed out by the Federal government.

Now, I understand where you did come from. I know that way back when you were an extremely right minded politician. In fact, I was surprised by your previous run for the presidency when you let W get to your right side. I didn't think there was any room there.

We were reassured that the "real Republican conservatives" didn't believe you were conservative enough and the press agreed with them. Your ancient history voting record had been long forgotten. You could really be a man of the center. The kind of man who could become a great President.

Now, your making sounds to pander to that conservative base. Your recent statements that your judicial nominations would not be "Activist judges".Meaning you will not appoint a liberal. You have gone so far so say that a judge that does not believe in Roe v Wade is ok with you. Maybe you are going to try a nomination like Eisenhower who nominated Earl Warren who despite his Republican background brought us Brown v Board of Education of Topeka and Miranda v. State of Arizona. So maybe your just trying to trick them. Maybe?

Now, we know that you have one of, if not the strongest, voting records against any form of abortion, that is a woman's right to choose but couldn't you remember the middle America or rather the 75% that believe a woman has the right to choose?

Do you really think those "conservatives will stay home on election day when faced with a possible Obama / Clinton ticket or something similar that would be so far to the left on every issue? Do you realize that the center would be left open to you?

Please Senator we are counting on you to be a bigger man. The man we have been hoping you could be as you near the possibility of being the President. Forget the W Bush conservatives. All they brought us was an unnecessary war costing $2 Billion per week, tax cuts and policies that resulted in $6.5 Trillion of national debt since being in office. A view of the world that has made us hated by the rest of the world. Eight year of non-caring and insensitive to any number of issues.

Please Senator be the man we know you could be.

1 comment:

Charles said...

What do we know about his ability to move to the center? For every "Gang of 14," there's an acceptance of an endorsement by the Rec. John Hagee, aka the white Jeremiah Wright. For every reasonable immigration reform, there's McCain backtracking on his condemnation of Jerry Falwell and other "agents of intolerance," only to cordially receive their support. Maverick? The only way McCain is a maverick is that he's a Republican who plays nice with the press, his primary constituency. But sure, he can move to the center. As soon as the center can be convinced that his actual positions on substantive issues - abortion, the death penalty, the war on terrorism - are just to the right of Dick Cheney's. And I think we can all feel comfortable that six years in a Vietnamese POW camp left no permanent damage. Does that sound about right?

There's your centrist candidate.