Reasons Why Conservatives Should Vote for McCain

I’m not a conservative, but I’m counting on conservatives to save the rest of us from making a mistake this fall.
It’s time for America’s conservatives to stop whining and get serious. You don’t always get what you want in life. Does that mean you should take nothing out of spite? No, you should take what you can get.
I understand why McCain makes conservatives queasy. You’ve got to get over it and hold your nose for the good of the country.
Do you think there’s no real difference between John McCain and Obama or Clinton? Or that your staying at home this fall will teach the rest of America a lesson?
You’re wrong on both counts.

The differences aren’t there in every category, but they are there and where they exist, they’re as vast as the Grand Canyon. Here’s the five main ones I see:

Defense and defense spending. Do you think Obama will make military recruiting and budgeting a top priority? Do you think McCain, a former navy pilot will? Enough said. And while I doubt Clinton would ‘gut’ the military, don’t you trust McCain a little more to make sure we’re military prepared?

Universal Health Care. Hillary Clinton and Barrack Obama are both promising to socialize medicine. That’s not going to happen in a McCain administration.

The Iraq War. This is ironic, since I opposed it from the beginning. But, much as I hate to admit it, we’re stuck there. What pains me more is that Karl Rove had a point when he suggested Iran would have control over Iraqi oil if and when we leave. We can’t leave right now. This isn’t 1991, when we had a strong tyrant there to act as a buffer against Iran. We killed that buffer, literally.

The Bush tax cuts. Hillary and Obama are already promising to end the Bush tax cuts. They will also have to pay for health care. It’s 1/7 of the economy. They’ll likely need to raise taxes considerably.

Judges. I realize would only barely view McCain as the lesser of two evils here, but it does matter.

And if you think the rest of the country will be so sorry that a Republican will be guaranteed to win in 2012, remember Clinton’s easy re-election in 1996…two years earlier he’d seemed impotent and beaten. Truth is, there are a lot of have-nots in America who’d be glad to move toward socialism.