election season. I started off a Hillary Clinton supporter and now I am a John McCain supporter. So much for my swearing never to vote for another republican again for anything after my vote for G.W. in 2000 and his deliberate program of screwing up this nation after 9-11-01.

Moving away from the Dmocratic Party began when I encountered the average rabid Obama fanatic on these Fray boards and realized that I literally could not distinguish between them and the equally non-thinking Bush-bot of years ago. It was then that I began to get uneasy about Obama and started thinking about the problems inherent about handing over a democratically dominated legislative branch to a brand spanking new political cipher from the far Left.

Thanks to his less than sparse political resume, all we knew about this first term U.S. senator was what he chose to tell us in two memoirs and that he possessed a golden orator's voice, a reasonably quick intellect, and was comfortably younger than Hillary Clinton and less loaded down with negative political baggage . . . or so everyone thought at the time. But his fanatical supporters . . . shudder!

The last time I crossed words with people possessing that degree of non-thinking passion regarding a candidate, the nation elected G.W. Bush [with the Supreme Court's help of course].

So in due course I watched the deliberate destruction of Hillary's nomination process by a blatantly pro-Obama national press and a corrupt DNC leadership. Okaaaaay . . . what to do, what to do? Obama's political resume remained tissue thin and his past remained an unexamined cipher that the main stream media refused to look at aside from Barbara Walter's style puff pieces.

So there's John McCain and, just like with Hillary Clinton, his political career is an open book and substantial enough that a thoughtful voter could base a rational decision in regards to it. I recalled the John McCain that existed before he became G.W. Bush's little gopher and remembered seeing brief flashes of the old McCain even during the interminable nightmare that has been the Bush years.

For better or worse the old bastard is not Bush and he does mostly embrace Centrist political policies and he would not be handed a legislative body ready to become his rubber stamp entity. Sarah Palin? She's a hoot but I really don't care about vice presidential picks. Let's face facts, during his presidential nomination run Joe Biden got about one percent of the vote. Both Palin and Biden are political tokens.

What I find most interesting though is the changes in posting temperament that formerly thoughtful and steady posters on the Left underwent as they whole-heartedly embraced Obamamania. Old names, reputable names, people that have posted on this board in particular for a very long time now . . . and they seem to have shut down their brains to substitue emoting for thinking. It's creepy.

Not all of them have done this, mind you. But enough have that I am more determined than ever before that now I would crawl over broken glass to vote for John McCain. I won't let a political candidate do my thinking for me and that's what far too many people on these boards have been doing where their outright adoration of Obama is concerned.

I don't trust Obama. He's never done anything during his miniscule political career to earn that sort of adoration and very nearly outright worship from otherwise intelligent people. He's not earned my vote. McCain, I think has.

does anybody give a fuck?

Actually I would love to see you crawl over broken glass.

No brain morons usually take the physical pain better...

Gatewood!!!

You voted for Bush frst time around and you think you still have a right to have a political opinion.

Fascinating.

Demcon,you make a lot of sense.The next President will have a rough four years whomever he is.McCain is at the age of win because of his age.Obama will have many other chances to run.

I guess you know Illinois is nearly broke as is California.

It seems you have a record of backing the losing horse. I'd recommend you stay away from the track.

Well I have not voted Republican since the first Ronald Reagan election, actually that is the only time I have voted Republican.

I agree that the word Bush can be substituted for Obama and the only difference would be one can speak english.

The advantage of Obama-bots is that they rarely use multi-syllabic words and are generally no more than 1 or 2 sentence long in their fanatical flaming.

I suppose since I did not vote for Bush and will not vote for Bush again, then I will probably have to suffer through god knows how long of Bush with better diction.

Will it make a difference? Not really because the verbal mannerisms of the new Bush are about as annoying. That lift up and descent into whiny tonism that he has down pat. Condescension, declention of derogatory debutantes deciding if dowdy deirdre can come ot the ball.

Glad you're back, been a little boring here.

:)

kadet wrote the following post at 10/11/2008 9:24 PM: does anybody give a fuck?

I do.

Jack

you always do that in the wrong time, and the wrong spot .

What a waste of viagra you have become....

So you don't like the passion we are all feeling for Obama. I can understand that coming from a former Hillary supporter. Your casual dismissal of Palin tells me all I need to know about your logic and reasoning. You will enjoy living under President Obama.

Are you kidding around here? Or do you actually see similarities between bushJR & OBAMA?? I don't quite get that.

Well, yeah, the condescension -- that part I get. I couldn't believe young BO actually condescending to Tom Brokaw last week -- a la his famous line to Hillary, "You're likeable enough." OMG!!

Where does this twerp get off acting like that? I think he might be one of those socially insecure people who sometimes don't know how to respond to an unexpected comment so they say something -- ANYTHING -- just to reply. It usually turns out badly for them.

So, how've you been, J? Best, SN/t.