Quote Originally Posted by Psycho4Bud
Just like here in the forums....my social circle is predominately democrat. The majority are Clinton backers BUT there is one common theme. IF their candidate doesn't get the nomination they'll either NOT vote or vote for McCain. The ones going for McCain are once again predominately Clinton backers while the Obama ones would sit to home on election day. The more they flame each other the worse this will get.

As for the PAST split in the GOP....the New York Times has managed to strike the nerve that is uniting the party. Better to compromise with McCain than to back a bias lib rag like the New York Times. Like the old saying, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend". McCain may not be considered a "friend" yet but is surely an enemy of their enemies.

McCain is anti-Club Gitmo, anti-torture and unlike his Democratic contenders, hasn't been a slave to the earmarks. Seems from the debates last night both Obama and Clintons version of change doesn't include pork projects. There is nothing transparent in moneys allocated that haven't had a chance to be debated in either Congress or Senate.

Have a good one!:s4:
:wtf: Just because there is a division in your "social circle" doesn't mean there is a split nationally. Again, on EVERY poll I've seen ... the majority believe BOTH Hilary and Obama will make great Dem candidates. Hillary and Obama have both stated that opinion many times as well, including once again last night.

Again, you also have the fact that Obama is beating Hillary in recent states by more than McCain is beating Huckabee.
This would leave one to believe that so far the Dems have been more certain who their candidate should be than the Reps.

It will be interesting to see the next vote results ... To see if the Reps are indeed more in defense of McCain now. If this incident is suppose to unite more Reps with McCain ... then Huckabee should start losing votes and not gaining them.

I agree with McCain on the issue of "Pork" spending ... unfortunately that isn't a major political issue to me.

If the government is creating jobs, keeping them here, keeping us safe, protecting our rights, and remembering that they are civil servants of the people ... frankly, I don't care about the pork. If all American's were doing well ... I doubt they would care about the "pork". Besides, not all "pork" is bad.

I'd much rather have our government "slipping in" grant and financial assistance to local districts then watch them start trillion dollar wars.

We went to war with the last 2 Republican presidents we have had in this country .... In the past 15 years I've seen plenty of Rep politicians claim they are "Reagan-men" only to see them display the lack of patience that RR certainly did not have.