After looking at candidates that I thought I could support slipping quietly off of the radar, I feel like standing in the middle of the "shining city on the hill" and screaming, "Where is MY candidate?" I'm sick of being called a bigot because I support border enforcement (for those idiots who would like to turn this point of view into Mexican-bashing, look up the statistics - only 60% of those pouring over our borders with the complete support of our government are Mexican - guess where the rest come from?) I'm sick of hearing about tax hikes when 11 to 22 BILLION dollars are going for social security benefits, medical benefits,etc. for people who have no claim by right of birth or even appreciation of this country and willingness to conform to our culture! Although I certainly don't support all of his positions, I'm sick of hearing the candidates explain their positions by saying how horrible the current administration is - don't tell me that; obviously you don't agree with this administration. That's a given. TELL ME WHAT YOU DO BELIEVE IN! Where is MY candidate, MY president?

Hilltopbabe writes: Where is MY candidate, MY president?

Unfortunately Hill your candidate is being railroaded out of contention by thoughtless, agenda driven Republican party leaders. What their aim is, I haven't quite figured it out, as of yet.
Only a cave dwelling ignorant dolt would not recognize the duplicity that comes with the McCain package. But, many in our party of supposed intellectuals (what a canard that one is) just ignore the facts and blindly throw in with the popular misconception that, "he's got to be a good president because afterall he was a war hero and suffered greatly as a POW."
Honor him as a great soldier, yes - equate that to making a good president, no. If that is how it's done, then Audie Murphy should have been our leader after WW2.
To answer the second part of your question, Hill, your president is over there, the one that our party leaders and the rest of the ignorant sheeple shoved down our throats. Take him or leave him, but he's still the one your going to have to vote for ------- OR NOT!
In any case, I agree with Ann, Clinton or McCain, it really don't make a damn. We lose either way.

It is quite obvious to me now how McCain came
to think he was the only person in his party to
support the surge, he thinks he's a Democrat!
For sure, he's the only one over there, save Liberman, who took that possition and where all the grief for that stance was comming from.

Do we give him a pass on this because of his age?

GW Bramhall
Bronxville NY

This is a very sad time for me. I have spent the last few months explaining to my kids that you do not vote just on party lines but on issues. Now I have people telling me to "get with the program" and the "Party" comes first. Well if it was a simple matter of an issue or two disagreement I would be inclined to agree. McCain is NOT an issue or two, it is everything the man stands for or doesn't stand for. I believe your right and Hillary is the lesser of two evils, however I can not vote for either. If it turns out that McCain gets the nomination then I will just not vote in the general election. My personal integrity is more important, not being a hypocrite in front of my children is more important. For that I will not apologize.

I well remember the "Gang of Fourteen". Nominating McCain would be like putting Benedict Arnold in charge of the Army while we were fighting the Revolution! I don't know if I can bring myself to vote for him. I feel like if he is nominated there will be two Democrats running. For the first time in thirty-six years I may not vote.

What scares me is the fact that Ted Kennedy will be "the guy" to go to for either Obama or McCain!

How he must be enjoying this moment in the spotlight! If he couldn't get elected himself, he'll just ride along on their coattails!

The best piece of political advice I ever got was from my mother, who was a very smart woman. It came on the eve of my first Presidential vote. Knowing me quite well, she gave me the advice indirectly by allowing it to flow from my own recognition of the flaw in my reasoning process.

It was 1968, and I was an idealistic young man in my very early 20s, faced with the prospect of voting for either Richard Nixon or Hubert Humphrey. I didn't particularly care for either one of them.

The evening before the vote, she asked me if I had thought about who I was going to vote for the next morning. I said yes -- and announced that I was going to write in Gene McCarthy.

Mom looked at me and said,

"Oh . . . that's nice. Of course, someone is going to win."

And she walked away, leaving me with that empty feeling that comes from realizing that your position does not hold merit. I tried to justify it in my mind all night, but obviously could not. I realized that I was about to throw away my first Presidential vote.

The next morning I went in and voted for one of the two contenders. As it turns, again out this year, I do not care a whit for either of the two "front runners."

I support Mitt Romney, and I believe that it is still possible for him to win the nomination, which would have the simultaneous benefit of preventing John McCain from securing the nomination.

John would indeed be the weakest Republican candidate, for numerous reasons. Just ask Bob Bechel -- he insists that McCain is the candidate Democrats fear the most. Consider the source! Anyone with any sense would immediately know that is "lie number one."

So, I'll continue to work to promote Mitt between now and the end of our primary process.

But if it should come to that nightmare choice in the fall, I will face the prospect of two highly unattractive candidates, but with the full knowledge that, as my mother said, "someone is going to win."

Either your value system stands or it falls and one doesn't just say, "Oh well" and vote for one of the least acceptable. One of the things that made Americans noted in the world in the past was that we were not only giving but 'stood by our word'! The 'wishy-washy' attitude of many Americans of today makes many of us 'older Americans' just plain ILL!! "Can't we just get along?" - yes but don't ask me to sacriice my values and backbone. Clinton more than concerns me for her 'wacked out' ideas and McCain just makes me ILL because of his attitude of 'compromise into extinction' and his 'volcano' temper. Mitt has had to fight the political process, the biased press everywhere and still has presented a class above the rest and has demonstrated his abilities in tne many areas that this country NEEDS and hasn't just relied on the past or his military record. By comparing the political records of the four frontrunners for this office it becomes clear that we can choose between three liberals and one consevative and then we can add one overstated pastor who pontificates and announces in a very smug and arrogant attitude his self' proclaimed virtues' even though we know that he doesn't have a 'prayer' of a chance of winning but is just staying in to draw away support from Mitt and in hopes of being the 'second seat' on the ticket with McCain. Honor, Values, Principles, Family, Hard Work, National Pride and Strength are not just words and they need to be restored to meaning something again not just words in a speech.

John McCain: The Manchurian Candidate

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