Quote from rew:
Given what I know now, I would still do what I did in 2008 -- vote for a third party candidate, largely as a protest vote. Indeed, I will no doubt do that in 2012.
Obama is a disaster. McCain would have been no less of a disaster. It takes a peculiar sort of simple minded partisanship to believe that if the opposition candidate is bad then your candidate must be good.
McCain would not have rammed Obamacare down our throats but he would have gotten us into a war with Iran by now. Indeed, he probably would have started it in his first year in office. Of course this country still seems to be headed into a war with Iran, Obama's election merely delayed the schedule. When that war comes it will be a disaster. It will make the Iraq war look like a towering success. I hope all you neocons griping about $4 a gallon gas are happy with the $7 gas you'll have after the war with Iran begins. The budget would be just as hopelessly imbalanced under McCain as it is under Obama. The Bill of Rights would still be in tatters, indeed one of the greatest enemies of the Bill of Rights in congress is John McCain. He is a big advocate of the Patriot Act, was a cosponsor of the police state provisions in the NDAA, and favors the Department of Homeland Security and the growth of the NSA. McCain has long learned to stop worrying and love Big Brother.
Add to that the fact that in his speeches back in 2008 it was obvious that John McCain was beginning to edge into senility.
