Choose one overarching reason to be against McCain-Palin, and defend it

[jmowreader]

In the 2008 election season, the number-one reason for me to be against this ticket is THE ECONOMY.

In an era of record home foreclosures, a teetering economy and massive foreign debt, my primary concern is that we have a president who can get the economy under control.

While we don't know Obama's method for doing so (I figure putting Ben Bernanke on a very short leash if you can't just remove him, raising taxes a moderate amount, ending the war, and choosing a good manager to be Secretary of the Treasury would do it), we DO know the Republican ticket won't be able to. This is based on three facts:

Fact One is that Republicans are traditionally extremely bad at handling the economy.
Fact Two is that John McCain has publicly admitted he doesn't know anything about economics.
And Fact Three is that Sarah Palin somehow managed to put a debt-free Alaskan town with a population of 6000 approximately $22 million in the red in eight years. This is not an easy task, but she proved she was up to it.

There are many reasons to be against McCain, and I have many reasons of my own to be against him. The economy, however, is the major national security issue facing us and the R's are not up to the task of handling it.

May we hear your reasons?

[mzmolly]

1. "It's the economy stupid."

;) They agree with Bush's approach to the economy.

[seabeyond]

2. the last 8 yrs..... the reason and defence in four words. n/t

[OneGrassRoot]

6. Yes, along those same lines:

McCain-Palin = Bush + Cheney + Falwell

[fed_up_mother]

3. Bomb, bomb, bomb

bomb, bomb Iran.


WAR! MORE WAR!

More money to prop up the war.
More dead.
More terrorists to wish us dead.

Wash. Rinse. Repeat.

[OwnedByFerrets]

4. She's a LIAR. We dont need more LIARS in office.

[tomg]

5. The Republican Theme Song:

Fifty Ways to Fuck Your Country

You go attack Iraq, Jack
Set up a scam, Stan
Go torture the boy , Roy
Just steal it, it's free
Stop Habeus Corpus, Gus
Don’t let anyone discuss much
Then repo their house key, Lee
And take it for free.

[lynnertic]

7. Last May's walk through a Baghdad Market

proved to me that McCain has no regard for human life.

Imagine twenty-one shopkeepers in your local shopping district slaughtered in their stores because a politician sold them out for a photo op, leaving them to suffer their fate at the hands of violent local gangs for 'cooperation'.

[OHdem10]

8. The Republicans went radical not conservative on Economy and

their steering of economic policy. Tom Delay wrote in his book
and proudly described their tactics on Television on nearly all
channels.

Every time a they introduced a law or policy they wrote the law
in its most far right form. Then they would go to each member of congress;
starting the the most conservative member and work their way up.
When they reached the number needed for passage of the bill, they
stopped. This insured a right wing law. (Forget that Center Stuff0

On Regulations, let the free market reign. They meant free, literally.
No oversight gave us the likes of Enron, and all those crooked failures.


Every bill was written to favor Big Business and Corporations over
the American Citizens. Medicare was a giveaway to Drug companies.

Outsourcing, no concern as jobs leave America. This relects their
absolute loyatlty to Business over American Citizens.

In conclusion, they developed a radical conservativism in which
the economic policies are slowly destroying our country.

[KharmaTrain]

9. This Is Where The Election Will Be Decided Upon

Just look back in history and the trends are clear...1932, 1980, 1992...years not only of "change", but where the economy was a mess and this was the ultimate decider in who won the election.

This isn't 2004...a "vanity" election where fear and strength were the big issue...too may people are hurting this year. Millions have seen their job vanish, houses foreclosed on, savings and earnings diminish...it's the worst I've ever seen and anyone who ignores the economy as the main issue this year is taking the GOOP bait.

As I was told and shown ages ago, when it comes to election day, people look at their wallets first...if there's enough in it, then they'll vote on other issues, but if they're hurting, that will be how they vote.

Tying Gramps to the past 8 years of failures is the key in making the sale..."more of the same" is a killer slogan that will resonate far more on election day than what the corporate media (most who are far removed from the financial realities many of us face) realizes.

[yellowdogintexas]

10. Supreme Court

The impact of McCain appointments to the Court would be frightening.
It isn't just about Roe v. Wade; it is about civil liberties, government spying, rulings on many things which impact our lives.

I pray nightly that what's left of the good appointees just stay alive until January.

[jannyk]

11. They could be 'raptured 'at any moment and leave us in the lurch.

What exactly is the Constitutional procedure in the aftermath of rapture anyway?

[jmowreader]

15. Article I, Section 11, governs

"In case of Rapture taking the entire Congress into the Heavens, the several states shall Chuse sane, atheist citizens in direct apportionment to their respective populations, and Send them to the Nation's Capitol where they will Fix everything the previous legislature broke trying to Please their Imaginary Friend."

[MadrasT]

19. 11 + 15 = DUZY

:rofl:

[bdamomma]

12. not talking about the issues.

and this ticket is more of a cult, and the people who are following them.

[MrScorpio]

13. They are incompetent

[dajoki]

14. Our country is in the worst shape...

it has been in for decades, maybe since the depression and we need to go in a complete opposite direction. We already have "tent cities" as there were during the Great Depression, people cannot afford food, gas, medicine, heat, their homes, etc. Not to even mention our standing in the world. ANYBODY that thinks McCain-Palin are the people to help are crazy!!

[Fumesucker]

16. Your twelve year old daughter was just raped by the reincarnation of Ted Bundy

Should she be forced to carry the pregnancy to term?

Not exactly overarching but it draws a pretty sharp line.

Edited for clarity.

[krispos42]

17. Because they are New Conservatives

i.e., "Bushies".

They see nothing wrong with cronyism.

They see nothing wrong with hiring people based on loyalty instead of competence.

They will gladly and without pause use the machinery of government for their own political agenda, their own political ambitions, and their own political party.

They don't see anything wrong with Reaganomics or so-called "free trade".

They are theocrats.

They do not govern by consensus, they rule by fiat.

They are intellectually uncurious.

They are hostile towards education and science.

They have no conscience.

[Terran]

18. Er, because they're republicans.

And the repub party is the party of racism, injustice, war and incompetence.

[slackmaster]

20. They would alter the composition of the Supreme Court in a way that Roe v. Wade would be overturned

Roe v. Wade is good, because it set a line in the sand for personal choice and cleaned up a horrible patchwork of state laws that existed before it.

That's enough reason for me to oppose McCain/Palin.