Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 13:21, Marc James Small wrote: > By US standards, Senator McCain -- who believes in Big Government and > detests the insistance of the several States that they DO have some rights > under our Constitution -- is somewhere to the left of Ralph Nader. He is > hardly "traditional" or "conservative" by any US standard. > > George Bush is a mild liberal: he has eroded civil rights and has insisted > on using the Federal authority for items for which it was never intended, > such as the protection of the environment and for the suppression of Free > Speech. He is close to McCain in earning my dislike but he isn't quite at > the McCain point yet. > > Me? I'll vote Libertarian or I will write in a candidate. Virginia, where > I live, is going to go heavily for Bush so my vote becomes a meaningless > protest vote. > > Marc What I am getting at is that I think there is a significant ideological split in the Republican party, so much so that people like my godmother, a staunch Republican for more than 50 years, stepped out of the party before she recently passed away. She disliked the growing influence of the religious right (she was religious, but a firm believer in the separation of church and state) and the rise of the shrill tone coming from people like Tom Delay and the neo-conservatives who reminded her far too much of McCarthy and worse. I am not registered with either party and have voted for both Republicans and Democrats in the past. My allegiance belongs to the country and the constitution, not an administration or a party. I vote for whom I feel will do the best for the country as a whole, now and in the future. Feli