I respect John McCain for his service to our country, and that is where it ends. Finito.
I found him to be very condescending to Mitt Romney during the Republican debate, especially about Governor Romney's expense of his own money for the campaign. So what was McCain's solution?

Apparently, John McCain took out a loan for $3 million dollars last summer to finance his campaign. So how will he pay it back if he wins the Presidential election? You guessed it!
With our tax dollars, i.e. his salary. How dare he make fun of Mitt Romney!

In this day and age of bad debts, sub-prime lending, and unemployment in tremendous upheavals, I do not believe Senator McCain has the fiscal discipline to rule himself or others.

We need a Statesman, not a Bull-dog. I do not like his short one-liners, when a more analytical approach should be taken when dealing with others, such as Castro or Putin. One way communication isn't, just like one size fits all doesn't. I find him way too trigger happy and defensive to be our Commander-In-Chief.

Immigration is too important an issue, to let slide by,but he has not grappled with it yet.
I do not want our sons and daughters, grandsons and grand-daughters to be in Iraq for the next 100 years.

I don't like his having a beautiful, young wife, only because it usually means that he is condescending to her. Most older women have the confidence to tell him some things his own mother may not have thought of, so he's the type that needs someone younger, who is easier to intimidate. I'm not impressed with this sort of thing. I like guys who can actually love a woman and respect her feelings enough, to not sleep around. I care if a candidate is loyal to their spouse. Guiliani and Clinton are out!

To be really cruel and petty, I will say that I don't like his voice. It is not relaxed and full,"like a man's"... I know this is sexist, but I respond very differently to the sounds of voices, and I personally like that of a deep, full-bodied adult male, in resonance and tone.

I'm a bit upset, but also feeling energized because a pre-recorded telephone call just came in and I pressed the daylights out of the phone to express my dislike of John McCain. Who would I vote for? Ron Paul, John McCain, or Mitt Romney. I pressed 3 for Mitt. Who would be my second choice? I pressed 1 for Ron Paul. What was my most important issue? I pressed 7, for whatever it was, I only knew I wasn't pressing what the John McCain automatic telephone political machine, paid for with a loan, wanted me to. I know it's dumb and childish, but it felt good.

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