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Originally Posted by MikeK
There are a lot of die hard democratic voters in my office who all say they will vote republican if Hiliary gets the nomination.
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I hate to say it, but if it comes to Hilary vs. McCain... I'm not sure who I'd vote for. If McCain wasn't so for sticking it out in Iraq and trying to win a hopeless war, I'd probably vote for him over Clinton... but if I voted for McCain I'd have to share the blame for every soldier that dies over there after he takes office.
Granted the situation there isn't his fault as much as it's the fault of the Bush Administration, but if he's not going to be part of the solution, he's part of the problem. Like I said earlier, I respect McCain's opinion about the war, because unlike Bush et. al., he's upfront about how it's a shitty situation that we should never have gotten into rather than blubbering and bullshitting about how great things are going. I just disagree with his opinion on the solution of the problem enough to make him nearly unelectable to me.
If he conceded to popular opinion on that one issue alone it would be enough for me to vote for him. All the rest of the things I disagree with him about (gay marriage, homeland security, abortion, healtcare, etc) I could overlook because I think he's a positive politician that would be willing to work with Congress to meet the will of the people. I'd rather have a president I trust but disagree with than another president that I can't trust no matter how much I agreed with their election platform.