Education is a liberal issue because educated people are more likely to be liberal. Of course, that's not what the conservatives say--they talk about "streamlining education" so that the people "know what matters" in order to be able to "compete in our new economy". Except, what they mean is that people should be taught just enough to work a menial job, without the intellectual skills that would allow them to understand that they're being exploited or to vote to stop it. Public education is the cornerstone of democracy, because a voting populace must be an educated populace. Your neo-cons don't want that to happen, because anyone with a modicum of education and critical thinking skills can see right through Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, Sean Hannity, Michael Savage.
The reason no one is giving an actual reason for why McCain is a better candidate is because the reason they have is that he's an old white man, and HClinton and Obama are not white men. McCain has had the reputation in the Republican party for years as being a tad crazy, and they're running him now because they don't have much choice. I don't think he's very tightly wrapped, I don't want him with his finger on the button, and he just seems to lack basic reasoning skills. He also seems to be very prone to the blandishments of lobbyists and out of touch with the average American--a deadly combination.
The other, even more unfortunate reason why no one is giving an actual reason is because the Republican political machine currently believes that they can keep Obama's margin over McCain, in a national election, down to a point where the election will be stealable. I think--gods, I hope--that they are wrong, but there's not much reason to go into specifics about why the voting public should vote for your guy if you have your people in place to throw out boxes of uncounted ballots, tamper with electronic voting machines, and turn properly-registered voters away at the door for either having names similar to convicted felons or for voting while black or Latino.
I see nothing wrong with taxes. Taxes, ideally, are there to provide me, a member of the public, with services that are generally considered public goods: roads, safe drinking water from municipal plants, sewage treatment, trash pickup, police, the judicial system, the legislative system, education, safe food, safe medications, safe air, a safety net for the disadvantaged. The Republicans have managed to redefine "public good" to mean only rich people, and have persuaded an awful lot of poor people to go along with it, just in case they might someday be rich.
Comfort yourself by saying that "they're not real Republicans" if you want, but the truth is, that's the Republican party you've got. If you don't want to be the kind of good Republican the current Republican party wants--if you want access to education, if you want public services like water you can drink and air you can breathe and firefighters to work at putting out that fire, if you want the right to control your own body despite the fact that you were born female--vote for somebody else, who will support your rights as a person and a citizen, and who believes that your taxes should do something other than line KBR's pockets.
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The reason no one is giving an actual reason for why McCain is a better candidate is because the reason they have is that he's an old white man, and HClinton and Obama are not white men. McCain has had the reputation in the Republican party for years as being a tad crazy, and they're running him now because they don't have much choice. I don't think he's very tightly wrapped, I don't want him with his finger on the button, and he just seems to lack basic reasoning skills. He also seems to be very prone to the blandishments of lobbyists and out of touch with the average American--a deadly combination.
The other, even more unfortunate reason why no one is giving an actual reason is because the Republican political machine currently believes that they can keep Obama's margin over McCain, in a national election, down to a point where the election will be stealable. I think--gods, I hope--that they are wrong, but there's not much reason to go into specifics about why the voting public should vote for your guy if you have your people in place to throw out boxes of uncounted ballots, tamper with electronic voting machines, and turn properly-registered voters away at the door for either having names similar to convicted felons or for voting while black or Latino.
I see nothing wrong with taxes. Taxes, ideally, are there to provide me, a member of the public, with services that are generally considered public goods: roads, safe drinking water from municipal plants, sewage treatment, trash pickup, police, the judicial system, the legislative system, education, safe food, safe medications, safe air, a safety net for the disadvantaged. The Republicans have managed to redefine "public good" to mean only rich people, and have persuaded an awful lot of poor people to go along with it, just in case they might someday be rich.
Comfort yourself by saying that "they're not real Republicans" if you want, but the truth is, that's the Republican party you've got. If you don't want to be the kind of good Republican the current Republican party wants--if you want access to education, if you want public services like water you can drink and air you can breathe and firefighters to work at putting out that fire, if you want the right to control your own body despite the fact that you were born female--vote for somebody else, who will support your rights as a person and a citizen, and who believes that your taxes should do something other than line KBR's pockets.