iMurphy

I don’t get to vote for another two weeks, but I’m afraid it may be too late by then. John McCain has come out of left field to dominate the Republican field and he is not a true conservative. Barring some major pledges at CPAC, he will get nothing but my disdain. After the immigration bill McCain/Kennedy, the 1st Amendment fiasco McCain/Feingold, and the Gang of 14, how can anyone call him a true Republican? Mitt Romney is a Mormon, which I have a real problem with, but he’s financially, socially and security conservative. It might just be talk for the campaign, but the others are even talking that way.

I take Al Mohler’s advise, and prioritize the issues before I vote. So here they are according to Robert Murphy’s take on Scripture: Abortion, it’s corollaries, War, Small Government, and Immigration (just to name the top five). The three Republicans all get the first one right, the Democrats get it all wrong. Next, there are all things that should come out of a real understanding of the sanctity of life, like issues relating to stem cells. If George Bush hadn’t held his ground and withheld Federal money from embryonic stem cell research, they never would’ve found pluripotent stem cells in adult skin cells. Huckabee called this one right, and Romney had to face the whole Massachusetts legislature over this. McCain gets the War right, but we can’t skip over priorities; he’s already out by now. To separate Huck from Mitt, we have to move on to Big vs Small government: the Huck was a tax-and-spend, Bush-esque governor of Arkansas.

Outside of the list of priorities, is the concern as to whether our nominee could have a hope of battling Hillary or Obama. There gonna have a ton a cash and a ton of support. Only Mitt has that kind of cash, and anyone but McCain could united the Republicans to battle Clinton or Barack. The Democrats reveal how easy they are gonna push over McCain when they admit that he’s likable and nearly one of them. Ugh!

Elections in America are about winning a party first and independents second. McCain can’t unite his party and if he is indistinguishable from Obillary but less charismatic, then he won’t win independents either. Mitt could unite the party and win the folks in the middle, like he did in MA. Huck is just sticking it out for the glory.