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There the sentiment has been expressed by some who make up this voting block that it is necessary for McCain to be a Gerald Ford that in four years there could be Ronald Reagan to rise from the ranks of the party and reclaim not just the right but the White House from the Democrat who would have since won with the absence of their support. A move that would hinge on his principle rival, the presumptive Democratic Nominee, Senator Barack Obama serving as a Jimmy Carter like figure and the national and international state of affairs being similar to that of how they were as the 1980 campaign was waged, all of which made him increasingly more unelectable in the face of a serious challenge from Governor Reagan.
With that, there has been little doubt that it has been a hard, harsh courting process indeed, one that has taken it's toll on the McCain campaign throughout. There has seemed to be few breaks for the Arizona Senator throughout it, as it seems like he has one of two choices. Either he can wholeheartedly embrace the values voters in the Republican Party, offering to compromise on each of the demands they have made of his campaign to woo there support, thus potentially alienating the moderates and the independents that he has styled himself the champion of, or completely distance himself from the religious right, letting them stay at home on the gamble that he can win enough independents to make up the difference of the votes he will need.
But could help be coming and could it in fact be coming from the most unlikely of sources in the most unlikely of ways?
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Re: Are They Helping More Than They're Hurting?
By Michelle Kenneth, June 16, 2008 at 11:13Oh, and KUDOS to McCain for making his own stand. It's about damn time someone did it.
Re: Are They Helping More Than They're Hurting?
By Michelle Kenneth, June 16, 2008 at 11:10If Hillary made it...I'd be voting for her. But since Obama got the nod, the only way I would be persuaded to vote for him is if Hillary was named VP.
Since there's been a lot of bickering between the two for months now and an onslaught of media that could rival the paparazzi chasing down the likes of Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan...I'm voting for McCain.
It's pure and simple why...because the media hasn't gone crazy over him. He won my respect when he emphasized HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES, which is very uncharacteristic of a Republican to embrace, especially when it was a Republican president he was going up against. By embracing human rights, he also divorces himself from the Religious Right (ironic, huh?). That, in itself, gets my vote.
The Religious Right is too powerful. They seek to do more damage then they do good. There is this thing called separation of church and state. The church needs to separate themselves from the state. Their morals and ideas are not conducive of a great government. It only hurts those who are not part of their religous right. That's what? Half the population of the USA they're harming?
It also is a violation of the US Bill of Right's to exercise their power over the government. It prevents others from practicing their own freedom of religion. Their rights END when it VIOLATES another person's rights - that is taught in high school World Civics classes. That is the government basics taught to high schoolers. I guess the Religious Right forgot about that little principle. Or maybe their egos got all out of whack and they forgot to step out of their box and see they were hurting others and violating other people's rights to their own beliefs and religions.
There are more pressing things to talk about in America then the rights to life, Roe v. Wade, etc. How about universal health care? That stupid war and acts of treason President G. W. Bush committed to get us into this stupid little war? Stabilizing the economy? I could care less what the Religious Right has to say, b/c there are more pressing things to discuss in America then morality.