Imagine John McCain’s America
John McCain promised to end “partisan rancor,” yet his entire convention was nothing but partisan. He sounds like George W. Bush all over again.
He chose a running mate so far to the right that it leaves moderate Republicans struggling for words.
His solution to high oil prices, “Drill, Baby, Drill.” Sounds like an oil man to me.
His solution to the rapidly slowing economy, George W. Bush’s tax breaks for the rich.
His solution to the Iraq War, the old George Bush policy of stay until we “win.”
How can a maverick agree with George Bush 90% of the time? He’s not a maverick anymore. He’s become the very thing he’s fought so hard against, a partisan politician.
If the McCain/Palin ticket wins this fall, I imagine our nation at war on multiple fronts because McCain will not be willing to apportion troops where they are needed most but will want them to fight battles for all young democracies.
I imagine a nation of foreclosed homes and closed businesses. The rich will merely take their tax free dividends and head overseas.
I imagine a nation of struggling public schools and pregnant teenagers with parents trying to figure out why abstinence education doesn’t work.
I imagine nuclear waste that has no safe disposal and American oil being pumped into a world economy that swallows it whole and never realizes it was even a drop in the bucket.
Since moderation won’t exist in the Republican party, what’s a moderate Republican to do? Vote for Obama. It’s the only chance Republicans have to send a message to the conservative right that people who disagree with them are not all liberals. We’re everyday people. We’re moderate Republicans, we’re Independents, we’re even conservative Democrats. Bring back moderation to the Party of Lincoln and give all Americans a real choice once again. Vote Obama/Biden.
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