If McCain wins the nomination I won’t vote for him. My issues & McCain are:

1) GWoT – Not bad but there are questions re: Gitmo & “rights” that need clarification. Grade B
2) Immigration – Terrible. He seems to have a One World Federalist approach to Sovereignty. His Hispanic outreach director is a former Mexican government cabinet member, complete with a loyalty oath to Mexico, who shouldn’t even have a dual citizenship and is completely against assimilation. Grade F.
3) Free speech – McCain Feingold = grade F. Here, and in several other areas like taxes, he demonstrates way to much sense of ease with incipient tyranny.

Those are the top 3 and he doesn’t come out well at all. My guess is that Hillary would grade out better and my feelings about HER are somewhere south of Medusa.

PS Roger, if I want to place a paid advertisement in Pajamas to run in October that touted the importance of electing a certain person, would you run it?

I see some of the same excitement being generated by Obama, though it doesn’t have a “one issue” feel about it (the issue back then of course was Vietnam).

Like Roger, and for similar reasons, I have become a one issue voter. Same issue.

Nonetheless I am following Obama closely. He’ll never get elected, but he does have the decidedly salutary effect of flushing the true Clintons out of hiding.

Still, at this point I think the election of Billary is a done deal, more’s the pity.

To me it seems the GOP has become etiolated or, perhaps, jejune. And the wind is blowing steadily and hard in the direction of the Democratic Party.

So while this is going to be an interesting election, from the point of view of those of us who want to defeat Islamofascism, it’s going to be a disappointing one.

Jamie Irons

It wasn’t very long ago that those same polls showed the only Republican who could win was Rudy. We’re at the end of January and the election is early in November. Polls this far out are worse than useless, they’re manufactured news that attempts to influence events instead of reporting what is actually happening. They wouldn’t even make good toilet paper.

McCain-Feingold by itself is enough reason for me to never vote for him. It isn’t the only reason but it’s enough. If he wins the nomination, I’ll not vote for the head of the ticket. No candidate is perfect but his temprement and distain for the 1st Amendment make it impossible for me to vote for him regardless of who the Democrats nominate.

Roger called himself a one issue voter in his post, that wasn’t my claim.

personally, I am a Rudy man, and McCain has always been my 2nd choice. My guys have come under some withering criticism from some quarters of the Republican coalition, but I find it to be just part of the game. Hell, it was just a few weeks ago that some of the same were laying into Romney, and now they are flocking to him as their standard bearer. Thus will be the same if McCain wins.

What I find extremely interesting is the position Samantha power takes regarding Palestine. In short, she says (i) lets invest billions in a (ii) nation building exercise (iii) supported by a massive military presence that will (iv) alienate both our allies (or at least one, Israel) and various constituencies at home.

Isn’t that exactly what the left has charged George Bush has done by going into Iraq?

It never ceases to amaze me what people on the left come up with? Has any one read Aristotle or understand his principles of consistency and coherency?

Regarding McCain, he was right to stand up for a change in direction and he was out in front of the surge. I think he largely gets the the war with Islamofacism. However, I less than sanguine with many of his other policy positions and he acknowledged lack of understanding of economics. My guess is that he would have different positions on taxes, spending and immigration if he had a better grasp of economics.

Anyway, I’d like to hear other people comment on Samantha Power’s vision of what is needed to build a Palestinian state.

I can’t find any verification of this, but if it’s true, that would be a deal killer for me. You don’t punish people who were doing their duty as approved by the president and congress.

I’m on the fence about McCain. I have problems with some of his stances, but I know a lot of good people who are supporting him.

If the shoe fits…

And you wonder why we have issues?

Oh, by the way, Juan Hernandez was the head of the Mexican Presidential Office for Mexicans Abroad.