My views.

[melissa_actress]

I appreciate those of you who have asked polite questions, shown genuine curiosity, rather than visceral emotional responses, and have respected my right to have an opinion that differs from yours.

asked what is is that attracts me to Mcain. It is not so much that I am attracted to McCain as I am diametrically opposed to most of Obama's

Comments

[nasu_dengaku]

Thanks for writing up your views even though the election is already over.

Here are my thoughts on them:

Taxes: From what I can tell, Obama is not looking at across-the-board corporate tax increases but instead is more aimed at particular subsidies and loopholes. No one can get elected these days without being at least somewhat friendly to big business. (I will give credit to McCain for being willing to eliminate the ethanol tariffs to allow us to more easily import ethanol from Brazil instead of making it inefficiently here)

Defense spending: The issue is not how much we spend on defense, it's our whole strategy. We're still fighting like it's the cold war. We have no trouble blowing any other nation to smithereens even without nuclear weapons, but that's not what's needed these days. We need an administrative, police, and nation building force that complements our existing defense force so that we can stabilize nations once we defeat them. If we had that in Iraq, we probably would have been done by 2004 and there would have been little to no insurgency.

Health care: Our system is so fucked up right now in so many ways that it's ridiculous. I'm having trouble getting individual health coverage because of an extremely minor pre-existing condition. Health insurance should be a social service provided from birth instead of something that you can't get when you need it the most. Tying health insurance to an employer is as silly as tying car insurance to an employer. (Oops, I lost my job... now I can't drive until I get another job.) I will say that there are certainly wrong ways of doing socialized medicine, and I hope that the Obama administration finds a way to harness the cost-cutting and innovative power of capitalism to create an efficient universal health care system.

My biggest problem with McCain, however, was his choice of Sarah Palin as a running mate. She embodies everything that's wrong with the Republican party today -- willful ignorance, bigotry, blind evangelical faith and a desire to enforce it on others, no respect for separation of church and state, lack of concern for environmental issues, a fake "I'm one of you" populist sheen, and plain old stupidity. She doesn't belong anywhere near the helm of the most powerful nation on Earth.

[dixiemouse]

My biggest problem with McCain, however, was his choice of Sarah Palin as a running mate

AMEN!!!! I think he could have picked a Platupus and done better, quite frankly...

Can you imagine how frustrating it is to say, "Yes! A woman VP! Wait? THAT'S your choice?! WTF?!?!?!?!!?!?!?! "

[nasu_dengaku]

Yeah, if the goal was to attract Hillary supporters it was an utterly stupid move. The only thing those two women have in common is a pair of X chromosomes.

[dixiemouse]

I can't help but think, how did they come to that conclusion? Were Ann Coultier, Dr. Laura, and David Duke all busy?