The Wardman Wire

… even if I had one, of course.

Being a Conservative, one would expect to be able to support the Republican Party in the US, considering that they are the right-wing party of America. But I simply can’t.

By picking Palin, McCain has ridiculed his own main - and most effective - means of attack on Obama, that he is young inexperienced. True, Palin has some “executive” experience that Obama and Biden don’t, but as a mayor of a town of 8,000 and a couple of years as Governor of America’s smallest state doesn’t amount to much. And Palin is younger than Obama.

On a side note, it is amusing that both slates have the same age/experience contrast - something we don’t really see over here in the same exaggerated way.

But let’s get down to the point: Republicans are not Conservatives. They have some rather weird policy views, and are far too Bible bashing. To me, the policies of the Democrats mesh far more readily with those of the modern Conservative Party - or at least my perceptions thereof.

Their economic policies appear to me to be really rather similar - with a different emphasis and process, but bascially the same idea. And so here’s where the crunch point comes, with both McCain and Palin being:

• anti-abortion
• anti-gay marriage
• pro-guns

I simply cannot support someone with such views. Maybe if the economic differences weren’t so minimal, I could hold my nose and do so.

When it comes to Palin, I agree with Norfolk Blogger: Why are some Tories so politically blinded by her? Yes, she’s pretty, dynamic, female, and quite a good antidote to Obama - but she holds some horrible views.

As such, if I had a vote in the US elections on November 4th, I would vote for Obama and Biden. They have their own faults - being relatively policy-light being one of them* - but them I can stand as “leaders of the free world”. They’re definitely the lesser of two evils.

* Possibly slightly hypocritical coming from a Conservative… but we’re not 57 days away from an election.