One thing is for certain and that is, if McCain and Obama are the best that either party has to offer this country is indeed in sad shape.

As a 40+ years believing in the Republican platform I must admit that I have lost faith in the republican party. If John McCain is the best the republican party has to offer we are in deeper trouble than I could have ever envisioned. When McCain and Huckabee conspired to defeat Romney in South Carolina McCain lost my limited respect for him. Romney should be the nominee and not the Mr. Amnesty guy. When McCain chose Palin instead of Romney he completely lost all of my respect as well as my vote.

My two greatest demands are that the commander in chief protect our country and not allow our country to be invaided by illegals from anywhere in the world. We Americans should not be required to speak Spanish or any other language. This is America and our language is ENGLISH. We should not be getting our phonebooks in Spanish, our bills in Spanish, our trips to the hardware store should not make us feel we are in Mexico with all their Spanish signage. We should not have to press 1 for English.

McCain plans on giving the 20 to 30 + millions of illegals amnesty and in doing so would undermine country.
(don’t belive that 12 million number they have been throwing around for years now)

Loosing our country is far worse than anything else I can imagine.

We have a choice between two Dumb-o-crats and neither McCain nor Obama have our countries best interests in mind.

We are in big big trouble. May we find a way to overcome these two horrible choices we have.

All I can say is Mitt Romney, I will be awaiting your next attempt to bring sanity back to the republican party. I’ll be with you all the way.

Quoting Jon Daily on Comedy Central.

Do you think only Republicans can fix the problems that were created by the Republicans over the last eight years.

Someone suggested that just because Obama graduated from Harvard was good enough to distrust him. That represents the tortured view for many of the right. We spend our lives hoping to better the education of our children. We hope and pray that someday they will attend the best colleges. This isn’t unique to Democrats. We all want this. Then if we’re lucky we’re called elitists in the political silly season. I can tell you from insider knowledge how dedicated and honest these kids are that graduated from elite schools. My daughter graduated from Princeton. I was raised in orphanages and boys homes. Eventually I went to college and later got a decent paying job. I would trust someone from an elite university much more quickly than someone who attended six colleges over six years OR someone who placed 894th out of 899 students academically. I grant the degree isn’t sufficient of itself to decide(honesty or dishonesty) this but as a starting point.
Also, to me, the argument appears to be that seniority trumps a brilliant mind. When do we ever believe that way in the real work world?

The Republican party’s platform (what there is of it), has become antiquated and war-like. Managed by otherwise good folks who have inserted god worship into their thinking so deeply that they have been afflicted with tunnel vision.

Republicans attempt to step into the twenty first century has failed miserably. I am a seventy year old, registered Independant.

Bob Corkery

As I read the comments posted by others in support of McCain, I am struck by the words sincerity, integrity, patriotism, dedication, selfishness, to name a few.

Yet none of the McCain supporters has named one single POLICY, one single PROGRAM, one single LEGISLATION that he proposes which they would support as well.

People are claiming McCain is their man based on ADJECTIVES, simple descriptions of a personality. These are the same words used to describe George Bush when in came into office, and look how he has governed.

The fact of the matter is during 6 of the last 8 years the Republican’s have been in power. Our economy is in shambles, our infrastructure deteriorating, we are fighting 2 wars which we cannot afford, so we borrow money from the Chinese, we watch as a major US City goes under water and people cry from roof tops, and yet there was not one word from the Republicans on how any of this would change.

My guess is it wouldn’t.

And right now on Reuters we see the jobless rate has gone up again.

Time to give others a shot at governing. If the Dems don’t do anything better, we can vote them out of office. But to say you would vote for someone because they are patriotic, or sincere, or selfish, when they have not clear ideas on what to do about the problems, to me, is not the best way to exercise your right to vote.

Palin is “the” best choice. Her credentials having positions being responsible and reforming Alaska are strong attributes to her resume. She is more qualified than Obama already. I believe she will amaze people of her knowledge of world wide issues and the role America must play to keep the world both at peace and keep America safe.

If only the Obama camp can identify just one single accomplishment that has weight that Obama has accomplished would stop / bury the legitimate statement of no real experience.
We are talking about electing a pair (P and VP) that will be responsible for leading our country. This is no time for biast but time for looking at real substance.

Also, what American in their right mind wants to give more of their hard earned money to the Government? If there are some then keep taxes the same and allow them to contribute the additional amount individually, voluntarily.
After covering cost of living and supporting my family I do NOT have any extra. A raise in taxes would put my monthly budget in the RED and I will have to declare bankruptcy.

I look forward to a “clean” campaign from both parties. I look forward to both parties laying their plans out on the table for the Americans to view and select their candidate by what they are offering.

America should be proud. We have the first African American President Nominee and the first Female Vice President Nominee!

God Bless America - We should puase and be thankful for the sacrafices by other Americans in the past for keeping our country free and protecting our rights to vote as we do today.

Sorry, as an Independent this convention was totally uninspiring. The Republicans just trotted out more of the same “I’ll scare you with 911″ and “Obama” is totally unqualified. Sarah Palin spoke nicely given that someone else wrote her material for her. She’s the worst decision McCain could have made to alienate potential Independent voters like myself. Where does she get off knocking Obama for lack of experience? Are you kidding, in office ~18 months, campaign funded by someone convicted of fraud and embezzlement. She has no business being a VP and McCain didn’t even know her before the selection. I’ll steer clear of the pregnant unwed teenage daughter issue but Republicans as the party of “conservative family values” would be bashing this to no end so this is a total hypocrisy. People forget McCain was one of the Keating 5 in the savings and loan scandal in the 80’s so he could have picked someone with some finance or economic experience. Finally, stop throwing 911 around as a scare tactic and I wonder how people feel about McCain calling his own wife a trollop and “C” word which really shows a disrespectful character. Sorry, McCain could of done this differently but instead showed he’s just more of the same Bush BS and rhetoric. McCain will loose this by a vast landslide and he already showed his desperation in picking Palin.

To those who look to vote for the lesser of 2 evils…take my advice; there are no degrees to evil! Evil is evil! Anyone who seeks to apply degrees is inherently corrupt! the act of murdering someone is evil. It is no greater or lesser evil how the murder was committed.

Are any of you aware that the money spent on the war in Iraq is so much, that the Government could have given every single person in the US over $30,000? That’s right. Of course that would never happen with a republican in Office, because if you have poor people, you have soldiers to fight your war for oil. If everybody had even that small amount of money, our economy would collapse and we wouldn’t have people working at the burgerjoints, which we drive up to in our mammoth verhicles, only in which our giant kids can fit.
My point is that the money spent on Iraq could have been used for something worth while, (maybe not giving everyone $30,000) like invest in healthcare or education, or just making it a little easier for the impovershed people in america, or those who work hard.
Let’s face it, Republicans have never been on the side of charity. Yes they give to Charity, but not without galivanting it around, to make them look like a hero.
We need a president who fits a charitable and honest profile, someone who can actually have a different look on things than this traditional conservative of richer made richer and the poor poorer. How can any of you hard working americans think that having a republican will help you with life? Sure the foreign policy of a repub is stronger than a dem, but do we really need that right now? Shouldn’t we just focus on the economy first? If we don’t have a stong economy, then we won’t be able to defend ourselves from terrorist threats. John McCain’s policies are the same as Bush’s, although he tries hard to stray from that picture. Can we really take another 4 years of the last eight? I think not. We can’t afford it.

Japanese doctor said, ‘Medicine in my country is so advanced that we can take a kidney out of one man ,put it in another, and have him looking for work in six weeks.’

A German doctor said, ‘That’s nothing, we can take a lung out of one person put it in another, and have him looking for work in four weeks.’

A British doctor said, ‘In my country, medicine is so advanced that we can take half of a heart out of one person, put it in another, and have them both looking for work in two weeks.’

A Texas doctor, not to be outdone said, ‘You guys are way behind. We took a man with no brains out of Texas , put him in the White House and now half the country is looking for work.’