As a conservative who will not vote for John McCain, I seem to be on the receiving end of a lot of conservative vitriol.
John Hawkins says there is nothing conservative or principled about me.
Daniel Henninger of the WSJ says I need to grow up.
Kathleen Parker says I’m a cannibal.
Linda Chavez says I’m truculent.
A commenter at In The Agora says I’m a political terrorist.
But I won’t be voting for McCain. It’s a shame, because there are a couple of important points on which I agree with him. I think he would handle the Iraq war better than any of the other candidates, and that is huge. I agree with him on protecting the ANWR (though would gladly have the whole place strip-mined if that could somehow keep him or Hillary out of the presidency).
It’s too bad, but his stance against free speech and the First Amendment is a show stopper.
I doubt I’ll vote for Barak Obama, but I would much prefer a liberal Barak Obama to an authoritarian/fascist John McCain or an authoritarian/fascist Hillary Clinton. The question for me is, is Barak Obama really a liberal? I’m not sure if it’s possible for a liberal to exist in American politics these days. But if Obama is one and the worst he wants to do is destroy the economy through redistributionist tax codes, I think we could survive four years of it.