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Originally Posted by Poppinjay
He was my choice in y2k. I called his office and expressed sincere regrets when he dropped out.
McCain lost my vote when he agreed to give the commencement at Liberty U.
Every day he sells out another ideal to the Bedrock wing of the GOP, he gives one more bullet to the eventual democratic candidate. They'll need alot, but he seems to be willing to make more.
I've always known that McCain has a very conservative voting record, but I've also known that he likely could do a good job as president. We wouldn't have the incompetence of Bush or the silly scandals of Clinton. But anybody who is willing to give quarter to the religious right at a time when a real abortion ban is making its way through the system does not get my vote.
Mark Warner '08.
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I understand your dismay with McCain's efforts to cozy up to the religious right. However, it is widely believed that a Republican candidate cannot win the primary without doing so. If this is true, isn't it preferable for McCain to court the religious right and win the election, rather than losing in the primary?
If McCain wants the opportunity to enact any of his presidential agenda, he has to get the keys to the oval office first. In many respects, those are held by folks on the religious right.
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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