Not quite, they have been block voting behind the neoconservatives though. The Reagan republicans sold their soul and are no longer trusted. They have bridges to rebuild. The GOP had all three branches of government and it proved to be a disaster. The Supremes got involved with an election for Gawds sake! The Republican Congress backed anything that Bush asked for and blocked anything the democrats wanted. You know the failures of the Republican Executive. Sometimes that is the case and I voted for both Democrats and Republicans throughout the 80's and 90's because they were making compromises and working together and the nation came first. But since Republicans gained control of all branches of government, by the slimmest of margins, The Neocons decided that fifty percent of the country didn't count anymore and that the democrats didn't have to be accomodated at all. The Republicans would do as they pleased because they had the votes. And they blew it, of course. The pendulum has swung so far to the right and the republicans have been so discredited that it will take quite a push to swing the pendulum back to the left. I'd love it to stay in the center, but it always swings from side to side. We need to get back to smaller swings and have more national policy and less partisan policy. How is McCain any different? We can only go on what they promise and what they have delivered in the past. You can be left of center and still be a moderate. There are more citizens in the broad middle than in the narrow extremes. McCain can be right of center and still be a moderate, just as long as they are closer to the middle than to the extremes. Of course. Are you lobbying for a President that didn't believe in his own core values? What has intelligence to do with it? Bush is a C student and he has great resolve. Inflexible resolve, unfortunately. What proof exists that either candidate will govern as they have indicated. The country needs to find its center again. The direction to the middle from where we are right now is left. I hope it doesn't don't swing it too far to the left, but that is the way of the political pendulum. I also hope the democrats don't make the same mistake as the GOP and try to get some payback instead of accommodating them and establishing national policies that both parties can get behind. But they deserve a chance and the republicans just wasted theirs.
If he was running for Admiral, I'd vote for him in a New York second. But military experience is not everything needed in an Executive. McCain's time in Congress is his experience edge over Obama and it is significant. Obama's graduate education gives him a knowledge and analytical edge over McCain and perhaps his law degree does, as well. Each candidate has his flaws and his virtues, but career as an aviator does not give him some kind of trump card.
The Oval Office isn't a think tank for braniacs. It's a volatile nerve center in an unstable world. I'd rather have the fighter pilot than the community organizer in there, thank you very much.
That is the problem today. We deserve a smarter President. That's why need someone who actually thinks before he says "Bomb, bomb, bomb . . bomb, bomb Iran". Especially if the enemy is somewhere else.
So McCain knows the strategies of war. I'll give you that. What he has done in Congress isn't very impressive. Thus I say Ill prepared as well.
I think it's a bit strange that you think the Oval office is only here for war and military people. Don't you realize that most threats are solved by economics and not fighting.
