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thoreauI hear rumblings on LJ - and also at the gym this morning - about gay men who (if Hillary is not on the ticket for the Democratic Party) will give their vote to McCain. I cannot understand voting for a war mongering, sexist, abortion foe with a sense of the world that continues the road of alienation and bully tactics that is bush and reagan's foreign policy. He's also not friendly even REMOTELY to gay rights - (granted mainstream politics in this country isn't all that friendly anyhow but...) even if he did show up on Ellen's show.
I can't see how a vote for McCain - who is a ruthless conservative of the WORST kind - is a protest against Obama not choosing Hillary.
Not voting? perhaps. and I'd wholeheartedly support that gesture actually.
But voting for McCain and actively campaigning for him? Thats simply aiding the enemy politically of everything progressive. I don't understand that.
and lets not be naive here - McCain and his party are the enemy of all things progressive in this country. Supporting the GOP when their platform devalues women, doesn't recognize gay people as equal citizens, fights to make reproductive rights illegal, and continues to fight and support wars on the backs of our young men and women in the service, and to give the GOP license to continue bullying it's way around the world and destroying whats left of the confidence in America as a superpower abroad?
Gay people voting for McCain in the next election is the equivalent of a Jew voting for Hitler... Look at what the GOP has done to this country in the last eight years of Bush. It's disgraceful. McCain will change a few things - but he's a conservative religious dinosaur. Voting for him is simply voting your own rights and value as a gay person away.
I can't see how a vote for McCain - who is a ruthless conservative of the WORST kind - is a protest against Obama not choosing Hillary.
Not voting? perhaps. and I'd wholeheartedly support that gesture actually.
But voting for McCain and actively campaigning for him? Thats simply aiding the enemy politically of everything progressive. I don't understand that.
and lets not be naive here - McCain and his party are the enemy of all things progressive in this country. Supporting the GOP when their platform devalues women, doesn't recognize gay people as equal citizens, fights to make reproductive rights illegal, and continues to fight and support wars on the backs of our young men and women in the service, and to give the GOP license to continue bullying it's way around the world and destroying whats left of the confidence in America as a superpower abroad?
Gay people voting for McCain in the next election is the equivalent of a Jew voting for Hitler... Look at what the GOP has done to this country in the last eight years of Bush. It's disgraceful. McCain will change a few things - but he's a conservative religious dinosaur. Voting for him is simply voting your own rights and value as a gay person away.
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Date: 2008-06-06 04:31 pm (UTC)What I would respectfully say to HRC supporters who are of a mind to hold a grudge against Obama all the way to November is this...don't vote McCain. Vote for Clinton. You can write her in. This is precisely what I was planning to do to support Obama if HRC had won the nomination.
Withhold your vote if you must. Write Hillary in if you like. But please, for the love of country don't cast a vote for McCain because you're pissed that your fave didn't win.