What if Mccain wins?

If we wake up on November 5th - for those who were able to sleep - and find John McCain is president of the United States, will it matter...that McCain is not George Bush? There certainly are differences on issues, such as global warming and stem cell research, but on [the most important issues] Bushs crown will be on McCains head.

If McCain is not another Bush, why is McCains signature goal making the Bush tax cuts permanent? I will not let Democrats roll back the Bush tax cuts, McCain has vowed. The Bush-McCain tax cuts that enrich the rich are set to expire in 2010. With or without his tax cuts, McCain has not hesitated to state his priorities - defense, the military and Iraq in particular (even if he has to make it a hundred years.). Once in office, McCain would start his one-year freeze on all federal expenditures, except for defense and veterans, as promised during the campaign. He would use the savings from freezing programs, such as health care and education, for deficit reduction.

To show he means business, the domestic programs McCain would freeze would be taken out of the hands of the House and the Senate. President McCain would submit housing, health care, anti-crime measures, education and other non-military programs to a presidentially appointed commission like the military-style Base Realignment and Closure commissions that Congress uses to cut excess military bases. Mind you, these commissions are used for cutting, not funding, and once these presidentially appointed commissions have announced cuts, Congress has been powerless to change them.
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/the_state_of_black_america_ne...
Thinking about 2009 and 2017
The immediate focus, which has dominated the campaign, looks daunting enough: repairing Americas economy and its international reputation. The financial crisis is far from finished. The United States is at the start of a painful recession. Some form of further fiscal stimulus is needed (see article), though estimates of the budget deficit next year already spiral above $1 trillion. Some 50m Americans have negligible health-care cover. Abroad, even though troops are dying in two countries, the cack-handed way in which George Bush has prosecuted his war on terror has left America less feared by its enemies and less admired by its friends than it once was.

At the beginning of this election year, there were strong arguments against putting another Republican in the White House. A spell in opposition seemed apt punishment for the incompetence, cronyism and extremism of the Bush presidency. Conservative America also needs to recover its vim. Somehow Ronald Reagans party of western individualism and limited government has ended up not just increasing the size of the state but turning it into a tool of southern-fried moralism.

Candidate McCain of the past six months has too often seemed the victim of political sorcery, his good features magically inverted, his bad ones exaggerated. The fiscal conservative who once tackled Mr Bush over his unaffordable tax cuts now proposes not just to keep the cuts, but to deepen them. The man who denounced the religious right as agents of intolerance now embraces theocratic culture warriors. The campaigner against ethanol subsidies (who had a better record on global warming than most Democrats) came out in favour of a petrol-tax holiday. It has not all disappeared: his support for free trade has never wavered. Yet rather than heading towards the centre after he won the nomination, Mr McCain moved to the right.

Meanwhile his temperament, always perhaps his weak spot, has been found wanting. Sometimes the seat-of-the-pants method still works: his gut reaction over Georgia—to warn Russia off immediately—was the right one. Yet on the great issue of the campaign, the financial crisis, he has seemed all at sea, emitting panic and indecision. Mr McCain has never been particularly interested in economics, but, unlike Mr Obama, he has made little effort to catch up or to bring in good advisers (Doug Holtz-Eakin being the impressive exception).

The choice of Sarah Palin epitomised the sloppiness. It is not just that she is an unconvincing stand-in, nor even that she seems to have been chosen partly for her views on divisive social issues, notably abortion. Mr McCain made his most important appointment having met her just twice.
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=12511171

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[MuglyTheWorm]

if he wins, you'll know beyond a shadow of a doubt the elections are rigged. you've seen what forms of lowlife wants mccain to lead them

[SimonPeter168]

let's make sure this nightmare doesn't happen.

[RadarKat73080]

They're Winky and McCain! Yes Winky and McCain! Their twilight campaign is easy to explain...

[nukenate]

Once you people start saying things like that, I feel there is a disconnect, and "hate" if you will, too strong for me to take you on the level you wish to be taken.

[BunnaySango]

I left home an hour early so I could vote in this election because I knew I'd be home late and didn't want to risk missing the polls.

Best damn feeling in the world when I hit that button, and I'm glad that my first time voting was in this election.

[knightstalker1369]

all the way home to Kenya

[knightstalker1369]

your mentality shows rinn

[knightstalker1369]

wait for it, it will come

[LongBeachDave]

Fortunately for the United States and the world, this nightmare did not come to pass.

[saadasim]

Palin for Repug candidate for 2012!

The GOP shall surely die and I'll die from laughing.