Posted by
Scott Keys on Sunday, February 17, 2008 6:56:25 PM
Dear commenter Chris,
I read through your comments again and wish I'd had more time to reply and, in fact, go into more detail in my original post. As I think I said before, I understand and agree with all the theory you cited. Just didn't take the time I probably should have to impart it to my legion of loyal readers. I suppose I owe them no less. With great power comes great responsibility.
Here's a
post on Robert Bidinotto's (editor of the Objectivist magazine The New Individualist) blog.
I do have a serious problem with this assertion of his:
"It is naively simplistic simply to match up McCain against Clinton or Obama point-by-point, and declare that because he takes positions superior to theirs on many or even a majority of issues, he would be the preferable candidate."
What other conclusion CAN you come to? It seems to me, in fact, it's the ONLY conclusion of any kind you can come to when you're comparing these candidates. Again, I don't disagree with his assessment of McCain's ridiculous anti-individualist positions on "profits" or on Gitmo or corporate "greed" but when you put even a squishy Republican like him up against two demonstrably egregiously socialist candidates it doesn't seem to me to be a difficult choice at all. It is EXACTLY a simple, but certainly not a "simplistic," choice.
But then again, that's only my opinion. I could be wrong. (Thanks to Dennis Miller for that)