My Thoughts

First off, I appreciate all you guys responding to my post. Politics is not something we normally talk about in our little blog circle so it was interesting to see what your thoughts were. Here's where I stand.

• Not voting is NOT an option. I consider my right to vote a very precious gift that as a responsible citizen, I must exercise. Even if it means writing in a candidate, I will vote. If you don't vote, you have no right to complain.
  
• McCain is not much better than Obama. I don't see the rationale behind voting for McCain just so Obama won't win. In the end the differences between the two will be very small.
  
• I had several people tell me our country would turn into the old USSR if Obama won. I have no doubt Obama would like to turn us into a communistic country but I doubt he would get too horribly far. He might get a few radical things through but there are checks and balances in the system and just because a congressman has (D) beside his name doesn't guarantee he'll support Obama lock, stock, and barrell. I'm not gonna flip out and vote McCain so that the US doesn't become the USSR for that reason as well as point 1.
• The only part of electing Obama that does scare me is the Supreme Court nominees he would have. There again, though, I feel McCain probably would nominate people who were very similar so there's not that big of a difference. Also, even if a nominee seemed conservative at the time there's no guarantee they would stay that way. The supreme court just scares me period, no matter who is on it. They have run rampant with legislating from the bench. This is not what the founding fathers intended.
• I will be voting for the Constitutional candidate Chuck Baldwin. When I look at his party platform I agree with so many things on it and those that I don't are minor. I can vote for him with a clean conscience that he would represent my beliefs.

Lastly, I don't understand all the excitement over McCain's VP. Sure she is a woman and she seems to be pretty conservative. But, she's still just a VP and VP's don't really do that much unless the President dies or there is a lock in the Senate. At the end of the day, you need to judge McCain by his record and what he believes, not by who his running mate is.