Juan McCain and the Left-Right Paradigm

I hope people realize that both Obama and McCain are unacceptable. McCain is merely a liberal in conservative clothing who will change his position depending on who he's speaking to at the time. For example, when he's in a hardcore GOP meeting, he'll say he wants tough border security, but when he's speaking to a Hispanic special interest group, he wants to show illegal aliens "compassion" and a "path to citizenship."

In 1999 he told the San Francisco Chronicle that overturning Roe vs. Wade would lead to illegal abortions, and that he opposed overturning it. Recently, however, he stated that he would support South Dakota in banning abortions.

In 2005 he opposed a ban on gay marriage; in 2006 he supported it.

In 2000, he called Christian leaders including Jerry Falwell "agents of intolerance" and compared them to Louis Farrakhan.

Although he might appear to oppose liberal gun control, he collaborated with Joe Lieberman in an attempt to gain government regulatory control over all sales at gun shows.

He was behind the McCain-Feingold Campaign Reform Act in 2001, which limited political speech, and would restrict what candidates could say, as well as limit the speech of radio personalities and internet bloggers--certainly a blow to conservative activism.

Barry Goldwater Sr., the outspoken conservative, is said to be John McCain's mentor. Yet John McCain has attacked the very same principles in the candidate closest to Goldwater's views--Ron Paul. Barry Goldwater advocated a policy of noninterventionism abroad, in order to keep us out of entangling alliances and conflicts in which we have no real national interest. As a neoconservative, McCain believes that we should be in the nation-building business, a practice that is helping financially ruin the United States.

Let's see, Ron Paul predicted a "quagmire" in Iraq, while John McCain predicted that we would be in and out in three weeks. Who was right and who was wrong here? Then, instead of acknowledging that Dr. Paul was correct, McCain chose to attack him by saying, "that kind of isolationism, sir, is what caused World War II. We allowed Hitler to come to power with that kind of attitude of isolationism and appeasement." First of all, noninterventionism is not isolationism, and was the preferred policy of the Founding Fathers. In actuality, it was our and European nations' involvement in post-World War I Germany that generated the fervor and hatred that allowed Hitler to come to power in the first place. Without that, he probably would've never made it past Postmaster.

So we have to choose between Hardcore Liberal and Liberal Lite? I refuse. The GOP has not provided me and others like me with a viable candidate for the Presidency. I will be voting for Chuck Baldwin of the Constitution Party, Bob Barr of the Libertarian Party, or writing in Dr. Paul's name. And before I'm told that my vote is wasted... I refuse to acknowledge the credibility of either Obama or McCain with a vote. Any vote for a supporter of an illegal alien amnesty is a slap in the face to every American family that has lost loved ones because our "leaders" will not do their duty and secure our border.