Cut the Crap Part II: The Quick and Dirty Case for You to Vote for McCain

Of course, there is no way that this posting can live to its title.  However, if any of this applies to one person and convinces them to vote for McCain, I’ll be tickled.  For the record, I’m practicing what I preach here.  I disagree with McCain on abortion, McCain-Feingold, gay marriage, spending, and environmental policy, absolutely none of which will preclude me from voting for him and volunteering for his campaign. 

 

 

Pro Life:  Even if John McCain picks a pro-choice VP, the fact remains that McCain himself (the guy who will be nominating Supreme Court justices) is strongly pro-life.  Is it really worth electing Barack Obama, who has supported what by any reasonable definition is infanticide in the past, over the nominee to an office that “is not worth a bucket of warm piss,” in John Nance Garner’s immortal words?

 

Union Democrat:  When Barack Obama talks about helping the middle class, he is not talking about you.  Obama’s middle class are the folks that in the 1980s we used to call “yuppies.”  Obama has backed off of his opposition to NAFTA, he thinks you “cling to guns and religion,” he has a record as a gun grabber, and is promising a vast increase in social welfare spending that you are never going to see.  Obama says he is going to pay for this by taxing the rich.  What do you think the rich will do?  Sit there and take it?  No, they will move their money overseas, because they are rich and can do that, and you are going to get stuck with the bill. 

 

More to the point, what about your kids? Do you want them working in the same job that you do?  I didn’t think so.  How do they get a better job?  1) education: McCain will continue to make teachers more accountable to you, Obama is in the pocket of the teacher’s union.  2)  Opportunity:  If your kids are going to be the man, not work for the man, then they need to be able to get white-collar jobs.  Raise corporate taxes, fewer jobs.  Fewer jobs, less opportunity.  Less opportunity, more working in a shitty job to make ends meet.  No progress.  3)  The chance to open their own business.  Owning a business is where the big money is at.  However, if you raise income taxes, there is less incentive to make more money and less money to invest in small businesses.  Also, if you raise corporate income taxes, small companies that were staying above water are now out of business.  That is why big companies don’t fight corporate taxes, they can just pass the cost on to their customers, while small businesses go under.  Your kids are not rich, and their businesses are the ones that go under.  Obama wants to raise taxes on both incomes and corporation.  That makes it awfully tough for kids wanting to go from working class to capitalists to pull it off.  

 

What does John McCain offer?  Less taxes means more money in the economy which means more jobs.  He is going to revolutionize the way healthcare works in this country, so you do not need to rely on your company doctor and can work with health care professionals that care about you.  And, in general, he is going to give you more control over your life, because you can manage your money and your well-being better than any one else. 

 

Clinton Democrat:  Regardless of policies, you need to vote McCain because Obama is going to push you out.  You have already seen the way he has used the Democratic machinery to punish those who don’t toe his line.  This is going to get nothing but worse when he gets in office.  You have a great opportunity here.  By voting for McCain, you can beat the Obama machine and build the party back up from the ground up.  You are smart, patriotic, and pragmatic.  The best thing that could happen for the United States is for the Democratic party to re-embrace patriotism, and you can make that happen.  But you need to discredit the New Left first, and you do that by beating Obama.

 

Libertarian:  I get that you don’t like the war in Iraq, the Patriot Act, and all of the related civil liberties issues with the war on terror, and will not try to convince you that you are wrong.  What I will warn you is this: wars end, what Obama is proposing dies not.  First, Obama shows no signs of rolling back any of the expansion of powers of the Bush administration.  He proved that with his support of the FISA bill.  Second, Obama is not joking when he talks of expanding the purview of the government.  When he talks about the money being spent in Iraq, he says that he will spend it on new initiatives, not reduce overall spending.  Obama wants to expand and centralize government, which is probably more of a threat to liberties, civil or otherwise, than anything the Bush administration has tried.  The phrase that Obama uses in nearly all of his speeches is that “we must be our brother’s keeper.”  Does that sound like a good idea to you?  What has McCain said that is half that scary?  There is a clear lesser of two evils here.

 

Fiscal conservative:  Yes, McCain has voted to raise taxes and has been to chummy with Democrats.  Still, the solution is to let Obama get in there?  Barack Obama is the antithesis of everything you believe, that should be reason enough for you to vote for McCain. 

 

Reagan Conservative:  Again, Barack Obama is nearly the perfect antithesis of everything you believe.  So what if McCain goes off the reservation half of the time?  Is “keeping it real” worth electing Barack Obama president?  If you think that a McCain defeat will result in anything good for the country or the party, you are fooling yourself.  That was the same attitude that Alexander Kerensky had when the Bolsheviks seized power, and look where it got him (and Russia).