Is the alternative really better than McCain?

I understand that John McCain is not the presidential candidate most of us conservatives were hoping for. I mean, if we elect McCain, then we might as well be electing Hillary or Obama, right?
Not in the least.
While McCain seems to have a lot more in common with liberal democrats than conservative republicans—which form the base of his own party—he has very little in common with socialists and communists, against whom he fought and was imprisoned by in Vietnam.
Hillary and Obama are far left of the political center where McCain is. They would just as soon rewrite the U.S. Constitution to suit their own agendas for social change. The democratic front-runners for president are more closely aligned with communist leaders of the past century than with even a liberal democratic patriot like Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-CT.
If McCain gets elected the 44th President of the United States, at the very worst, things won’t change, but shall stay the same in Washington, D.C., as they have for decades. Although I’m personally fed up with the Beltway status quo, no change may be better if the alternative is change entirely in the wrong direction. I’d rather have a President McCain keeping things the way they are than a President Obama or Clinton gutting our political, economic and military infrastructures in the name of social justice.
Don’t get me wrong: I’m no McCain fan. But at least he listened when the people spoke up about the amnesty bill that he and Teddy Kennedy were co-sponsoring. He seems to get that the core of his party is opposed to illegal immigration, even if he personally has no problem with it. As president, McCain probably won’t do anything to really fix illegal immigration. But I don’t think he’ll do or let anything happen that would make things worse than they already are. You might say that McCain is willing to at least meet his core constituents in a Mexican Standoff on this issue the same way George W. Bush has.
But if the next president is going to be Hillary or Obama, then we might as well have no borders at all. In fact, we may even kiss what borders we do have good-bye.
Furthermore, McCain will not intentionally harm our economy. He hasn’t done much to keep companies and their jobs from going overseas, but he has supported across-the-board tax relief for all Americans—not just those who would vote for him. He understands that tax cuts to everyone from the blue-collar worker to the corporate CEO not only encourage economic growth, but are also just plain fair. After all, who pays the lion’s share of taxes in America today? Who shoulders the greatest percentage of burden to pay for our government’s largesse?
The rich. The same rich that own the companies employing America. Hillary and Obama threaten to tax even more out of American employers to pay for all of their grandiose social and economic reform schemes. What this means is higher costs to companies, translating into higher costs for the consumers of the products and services that these companies provide. In other words, the cost of higher taxes on the rich eventually gets passed down to you and me.
McCain understands that the reverse is also true—something that neither Hillary nor Obama seem to get. If the tax burden is lightened on the rich, then more money is available for expansion and growth of business. This means more jobs and better compensation packages that did not exist before. In other words, you and me—the American worker—ultimately benefits.
Moreover, John McCain will do nothing to harm national defense. We can count on McCain to keep our military strong, vigilant and ready to respond. I’m afraid that if Hillary or Obama get their way, the military will be rolled back the way it was under former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter. Then, if we suffer another devastating terrorist attack, it will take that much longer to respond because we would have to build up our defenses all over again. This is assuming that we aren’t totally destroyed first.
Both Hillary and Obama have pledged to end the War on Terror by pulling out of Iraq and Afghanistan entirely, giving the terrorists what they want most: Moral and political victories over their self-proclaimed mortal enemy. All this shall accomplish is increased violence against the United States on or off American soil; not less.
While I’m not happy that our military is engaged in yet another police action conflict, at least we have taken the fight to the terrorists and not let them bring it back to us again.
Finally, John McCain is an ally in conservative stands against abortion and its wholesale practice, while the other two candidates are clearly in favor of its proliferation. McCain’s record is consistently pro-life, and I believe he will continue to be if elected president.
McCain will also neither abide judicial activism aimed squarely at changing our Constitution nor appoint Supreme Court Justices who would legislate from the bench.
I can’t say that I’ve got as much confidence in either Hillary or Obama to appoint fair and impartial justices who are strict constructionists. Chances are greater that we’d get another Ruth Bader Ginsburg or two.
The bottom line here is that for all of McCain’s faults, he is clearly the more conservative of the three most likely presidential candidates. And while he is not really a conservative, he is at least willing to listen and compromise, where Hillary and Obama will not. The latter would just as soon shut up their conservative opposition than attempt to live in harmony with them.
At least I could sleep at night with John McCain in the White House. I may not like it, but at least I could sleep. With the other two, though, I may become an insomniac from worrying about whether each morning I’ll be living in America or Amerika. I may even develop a few ulcers to along with my sleep deprivation.
But at least I would have universal health care.