I had thought to myself that my pole was pretty firmly planted in the ground that I would not be voting for McCain. That was up and until the Heller decision. That was my wakeup call. Now, I must vote for the lesser of two evils keeping in mind that the lesser of two evils just might appoint less evil judges to the Supreme Court. When I read Steven's and Breyer's dissents, I had to judge them as being at least partially evil. No one can come up with the excuses and reasoning they came up with to abridge a right explicitly enumerated in our Bill of Rights, without some evil intent, in my opinion.
Thus, I've come up with a new justification to vote FOR McCain. In addition to hoping for a reduction in the risk of having more loopy justices like Stevens, Breyer, Souter and Ginsburg appointed, I want Obama to lose, pure and simple. Why? Several reasons, but here's the biggest one.
Many people on the right say they won't vote for McCain because he is not conservative enough. I understand their positions and I don't disagree. However, the democrats have lost the last two elections because they ran people who were too liberal. So what did they do this time around? They ran someone who was even more liberal. Obama is the leftmost Senator in the US Senate. By having McCain win, maybe the democrats will get it through their thick skulls that far left loonie candidates typically get defeated in Presidential races. This might cause them to run a more "moderate" candidate, which would then allow the republicans to shift to the right in thier nomination.
Now, some folks might say that democrats would never get that smart. Look at their strategy to take over congress. They ran candidates who were almost, if not more so, as conservative as the republicans they ran against. Coupled with the Republicans forgetting that they are supposed to be the party of less spending and smaller government, the democrats beat them in key races and took over both the House and the Senate.
I'm going to go with McCain, clothespin firmly blocking both nostrils. If he loses we are in a world of hurt. If he manages to win, I will watch what happens in 2012 and how the democrats react. If Obama was a moderate candidate, and not just "pretending" to be one, I might not vote for McCain. Since Obama is so far left, even though he's pretending to move towards moderation, I can't let him win. There's too much at stake, because Obama's a left wing marxist, much more so than even Gore and Kerry were.