I will vote for John McCain because he is the most experienced candidate for the position of the presidency of the United State. Take a master class in the presidency and you will learn why.

God bless.

Sunny Murchison and Lil’ Sunny Lee
Pasadena, California

We have to be careful not to just think about George Wallace standing in the school house door over this issue. In general innovation tends to happen in smaller units at the edge and the Federal Government has proved to be incapable of innovation at the edge since DARPA first funded the Internet.

I hear your objections, but maybe there is a way to work through these show stoppers?

I’m sick of talking about abortion, and I’m pro-choice. The pro-life side is winning slowly, and the states that are serious about women’s health rights issues should gladly grab that political security. Leave it up to the states, let women in South Carolina suffer accordingly, and let’s see what’s what.

I support gay marriage. And if the Christians get given states rights for abortion (where they get to make it illegal in their state), I think they’ll deal with gay marriage in the liberal states.

I support legalizing drugs and whoring. And again, I think that the quickest way to STOP ARGUING is to let 50 different experiments get played out on all kind of social moral issues.

Yes, you are right that states rights was the rally cry of slavery. I grant it. But you have to admit, we fought a war to end that state right (well kinda). Once that one is off the table, and I get the credit, cause we fought a war to stop bad shit when we had to, I think you have to admit, states rights works out better for the stuff you believe.

There are states…Rhode Island, North Dacota, etc….which have smaller populations than many cities in the US. Why should Rhode Island have states’ rights that trump city’s rights? It’s bullshit…this states’ rights argument. It doesn’t mean anything in the big scheme of things, or perhaps states themselves should just go on the warpath and conquer one another…

What are “states’ rights”? And why are they so important to you, Morgan? I think they represent an arcane and totally artificial political construct. This is an anachronism like the monarchy in England. I’m not totally against the idea, but if you scratch below the surface, states rights don’t mean much.

There’s also the wonderful Jim Crow history of states’ rights which allow states to trump human rights. I’m against it… But then I’m just learning about true libertarianism, Morgan-style. Human rights don’t seem to mean much except as other humans’ necks become rungs on the ladder to material success…

I’m love to have a new Republican party get formed: low tax, pro-small business, pro immigration, pro-choice, pro-military, pro-gay. Will it happen? Not a chance. But, to me it is easier to urge the Republican party become pro-gay and pro-choice, than it is to convince the Democratic party be low tax / low regulation.

I’m doomed to always be in the minority. The fortunate thing is the glass is half full for me with either Obama or McCain. And while McCain reads slightly better than Obama, I have a sneaking suspicion based on who he has around him, that he only gets more moderate.

But you unfailingly seem to fall back to thinking I’m in bed with Rush Limbaugh which is silly. I’m a Dennis Miller guy.

I don’t think we can yet say that this is the end of an era for the GOP. We’ll have to wait until November to know that for sure, and work hard until then to ensure that it is.

For all the media reports that the Dems are killing the party with the fight to the finish, could it be that it is actually a good thing? I mean, every year we get reports about how the votes in late primaries don’t count, and here we are with a situation where every last vote is important. It sure sounds like a good thing to me.

As I said before, you are going to have to retreat to the loyal opposition posture. Its a stress position, but I’m sure that you and Rush Limbaugh will learn how to adapt.