For the last few weeks, friends and family members of mine have asked me repeatedly why I liked John McCain 8 years ago and now, in the face of the fact that many of his economic plans make more sense than Obama’s (their words, not mine).  They would ask me how I can feel like a fiscal conservative and yet still support someone who, it is more than likely, will spend quite a bit more than he thinks he will.

At this point, frankly, it has come down to one simple reason.  Choice.  I am in all ways, forms and fashions pro-choice.   I like having the option of making my own decisions and allowing others related to me to make their own decisions.  I like knowing that my ability to be protected by those so-called “civil liberties” is safe under someone who won’t be giving into political donors or allies who would deny them.

As many of you know, I refuse to post (or allow posts) about politics on my own site, but after reading this article about abortion rights yet again on the ballot in a few states these days, and being potential avenues to challenge Roe versus Wade, I felt compelled to speak up.  Of course they have the right to decide their own states’ laws, but I find myself terrified about situations like this.   For a country that was founded fundamentally around the idea about being given the right to choose, I could not be more angered by such blatant abuses of those rights.

So, there, I am sure I am not I properly explained it, but to spell it out, choice is why I like Obama more.  McCain represents a party that has spent the last 14 years restricting choice at every opportunity they get (Defense of Marriage Act, Patriot Act, etc.) and then claiming persecution and the Democrats are to blame for it.  I cannot support a party…I cannot vote even one time for any members of a party who allow themselves to be hijacked that way.