Let me start of by saying McCain is an idiot. I don't like him. I don't like the things he says. I don't think he'll win the election, either.
On the other hand, I happen to like Obama. He seems like a much nicer man and is certainly a better speaker and good at rallying the people. These are important qualities of a leader. I think someone who can make people believe in America again is really, really important.

But I'm not going to vote for Obama. I'm probably going to vote for McCain. This is because I realize that no matter how much more I like Obama as a person and as a leader, his politics simply do not agree with me. For me it comes down to this:

Do I want more government?
Do I want higher taxes?
Do I think the government can spend my money better than I can?
Do I honestly feel like a move towards socialist ideals is in the best interest of America?

And most importantly, do I want a conservative or liberal judge appointed to the supreme court when that time comes?

Recently, the supreme court closely ruled that U.S. citizens do, in fact, have the right to own guns - showing that 5 out of the 9 judges are still capable of reading and basic comprehension. The second amendment apparently wasn't clear enough, but it has been saved, at least, for now. With such a close decision, it's important we retain good judges in the Supreme Court.

So no matter how much I like Obama, I'm simply not going to vote for someone who wants MORE social programs, MORE government, MORE taxes, and MORE control over my life. This isn't secret - this isn't bias, this is the difference between conservative and liberal ideologies. The difference between less government and more government.

This quote from Obama really sealed the deal for me:

"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK."

I believe in being nice to our environment and all, but ultimately I don't think we should be accountable to other countries for how we live our lives here in America. We've worked hard to get where we are! What we do is not the business of any other country! It's like saying the rich kids in High School have to stop driving BMWs because it's making the poor kids feel bad. That's life!

So I'm going to vote for the moron. McCain, the last person I expected to actually get the nomination. The idiot who doesn't know how much gas costs right now and who doesn't even know how to use a computer. The idiot who will probably enact stupid laws regarding digital freedoms and other things I care about. The guy so dumb I'd almost rather have Bush for another 4 years.

Unfortunately with no good candidate, I have to vote for damage control, not for who I actually like. Who will screw up the country more? I think a liberal enviro-zeolot is far worse than a stupid conservative. At least nobody will like McCain, making it so he probably won't be able to do much. That way we can stay in a holding pattern for four years until another candidate comes along - hopefully one with some principle.

At least McCain is more likely to put a literate judge in the supreme court. At least McCain still believes in a majority of our rights. At least McCain is less likely to start up a bunch of stupid freedom-sucking, expensive, and ultimately ineffective social programs.

But alas, the elections are ineffective. McCain is so bad I almost thing the whole thing is rigged to get us all to vote for Obama. (What book was it where that happened - fahrenheit 451?). The two part system has failed us. Unfortunately I don't think we can get rid of it.

I'd like to think that voting for someone you don't like takes a certain degree of intellegence and the ability to look at the macro-realities of our country.

So with that I'll leave you with an excerpt from George Washington's farewell speech, where he basically says that a party system will destroy America.

I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally.

This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; but, in those of the popular form, it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy.

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.

Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight), the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.
It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another."

And you can read the entire speech here.