Posted by
Randy Starner on Thursday, October 09, 2008 2:52:18 PM
It is fair to say that 40% of Americans will vote for John McCain no matter how lackluster his campaign or personality. I am one of these. 45% of Americans will vote for Obama no matter how thin the resume, how radical the history, how partisan the record. In fact, this is the rub. They will vote for Obama because of his partisan record. In fairness, some of us on the right wish that our candidate were half as partisan on our side. He (McCain) was not and is not.
This brings us to the inexplicable 15% of voters in the middle. I do not wish to offend them. But suffice it to say that its difficult to comprehend the difficulty of making a choice between these candidates. But, we always tend to view choices through our own prisms. We are told that millions of Americans long for a bi-partisan or non-partisan approach to solving American problems. In near desperate attempts, both candidates attempt to sway this fickle 15% with their commitment to the evasive "middle".
Barack Obama would like you to believe that he is a hybrid concoction of JFK, Reagan, and Bill Clinton. His record is much more LBJ (Great Society), George McGovern, and Jesse Jackson. Rank and file democrats are content with his rightward push prior to the election, because they are comfortable that he will govern in a manner consistent with his left edge record. Conservatives, on the other hand, have no such illusions with Senator McCain. He would govern in a bi-partisan manner, to the consternation (but not surprise) of conservatives everywhere.
At the end of the day, most conservatives will vote for McCain because we believe compromise with Democrats is superior to domination by socialists. If a moderate voter ever had a candidate that fit the mold, it has to be John McCain. Many of us on the conservative side have long believed that moderates were really democrats that thought moderate sounded more intelligent (funny thing, it does). The 2008 election may prove it once and for all.