We need candidates that recognize the fact that big government is the cause of our problems not the solution. We need people willing to stand up and say that the Dept of Energy needs to be dismantled and the government needs to get out of the energy business. Sadly, there are few in the GOP that believe that.
“Fundamentally there is no difference between McCain and Obama - they both believe it is the role of government to solve the world’s problems.”
To say there is no difference between Obama and McCain suggests that you have not done your research. I see you just signed up over here and if you are trying to spread disaffection for McCain, I don’t think it will work here.
Differences? Let’s see.
Taxes: McCain wants to make the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts permanent. Obama want to let them expire, a massive tax increase. How exactly is McCain’s position on taxes fundamentally as statist as Obama’s statist as Obama’s.
Spending: McCain has consistently opposed earmarks, which grow government at the expense of the taxpayer. Obama favors them. McCain has opposed big ticket government spending such as the $1.2 trillion prescription drug benefit, the $386 billion highway bill and the gigantic Agriculture Bill just passed by Congress. Obama has proposed even more spending than this. How is McCain’s position equally as statist as Obama’s?
Second Amendment- McCain has a nearly perfect rating form the NRA in protecting the Second Amendment. Obama is a gun grabber extraordinaire who tired to pass a bill in the Illinois Senate that would subject the VICTIMS of burglary to prosecution if they have a gun stolen in the burglary and it is used to commit a crime UNLESS the Victim of the Burglary can prove that he took “reasonable steps”: to secure it. How exactly is McCain’s position on the Second Amendment fundamentally as statist as Obama’s?
I haven’t even mentioned the radically different approaches of Obama and McCain on medical care, in which Obama would have the government gobble up an industry that is one seventh of the entire U.S. Economy. McCain firmly opposes government run health care.
You will find most people on this site to be too well informed to buy outlandish statements such as that McCain and Obama are both fundamentally the same as far as statism is concerned.
the obamama is a Marxist and plans to Nationalize industry and to tax us into "You can't drive your SUV's, have your thermostats at 72, you can't eat all you want - and have the world say OK.>
He has stated that he intends to rebuild Africa - and that will be by taking the money our of our pockets to put in theirs,,,redistribution of wealth, aka, Marxism/Communism.
He is committed to total gun control, abortion even to the point of killing live babies that managed to get born before the late term abortion was complete...etc.
McCain is a Federalist (we are not a democracy - we are a Federal gov't) and holds to STATES RIGHTS, per the Constitution. He holds that the states should decide what goes on in their states and not be overridden with mandates from DC.
He is against gun control, abortion, etc etc. (and he has NEVER once taken pork barrel money - care to list the names of all the others who have that record? It shouldn't take long.)
The "no difference between Obama and McCain" mantra is getting old.
Those who continue to spout it are either naive or willfully intent on marginalizing him - and our only chance in staving off the take over of Marxism...