Matt Collins
10-06-2009, 04:47 PM
So I sent this list of similarities between McCain and Obama (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=169668) to someone that I know is a neocon. This individual's identity will be kept anonymous.
Here is their response to the list (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=169668):
I cannot argue with the facts you've presented below, Matt, but I offer the following as important areas/facts to consider about John McCain:
We would have lost the war in Iraq without McCain's leadership. Hindsight makes it easier to say we shouldn't be there in the first place, but my thinking is that, to quote Colin Powell, "we broke it so we bought it." Congress authorized this war. It is our war. We should not leave a country to be ravaged like VietNam was when we quit there.
McCain is strong in opposing abortion on demand policies. He would not endorse paying tax dollars for them here or, incredibly, like we are now doing overseas.
McCain supports a balanced budget amendment. He is strong in opposing ear marks and, for the most part, tax increases.
McCain has spoken out forcefully against the Obama healthcare proposals and is leading the fight to defeat them.
We don't live in a world where we can pick a combo of Ayn Rand, George Washington and Ron Paul to face our political opposition. We choose the best we have available. I maintain that for that point in time, McCain was a stronger choice than his Republican primary opponents and is a vastly superior choice to Barak Obama.
Thanks, though, for the thought-provoking list.
Here is their response to the list (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=169668):
I cannot argue with the facts you've presented below, Matt, but I offer the following as important areas/facts to consider about John McCain:
We would have lost the war in Iraq without McCain's leadership. Hindsight makes it easier to say we shouldn't be there in the first place, but my thinking is that, to quote Colin Powell, "we broke it so we bought it." Congress authorized this war. It is our war. We should not leave a country to be ravaged like VietNam was when we quit there.
McCain is strong in opposing abortion on demand policies. He would not endorse paying tax dollars for them here or, incredibly, like we are now doing overseas.
McCain supports a balanced budget amendment. He is strong in opposing ear marks and, for the most part, tax increases.
McCain has spoken out forcefully against the Obama healthcare proposals and is leading the fight to defeat them.
We don't live in a world where we can pick a combo of Ayn Rand, George Washington and Ron Paul to face our political opposition. We choose the best we have available. I maintain that for that point in time, McCain was a stronger choice than his Republican primary opponents and is a vastly superior choice to Barak Obama.
Thanks, though, for the thought-provoking list.