Country first

Sen. John McCain has already fought for you. Humbly serving our nation for five and a half years as a POW left with permanent physical wounds and a life-changing attitude of country first and self second, John McCain has already fought for you. McCain doesn’t come across as a normal politician because he isn’t one. His likability grows on you. As I have followed him since he became the Republican party candidate and now nominee, my like for McCain has grown tremendously. I agree with him on the major issues facing America today and that, among many others, is reason enough to vote for him.
 
You don’t have to guess where McCain stands on the issues. He really does give you straight talk. In his nomination speech, the world watched a man’s honesty, sincerity and humility come out in its truest form.

He hates war and has great reason to. The senator talked of Vietnamese soldiers working him harder than they had ever before after he turned down early release from prison. They finally broke him, but his friends told him to get back up and fight for his country again. I welled with tears as McCain said in his nomination speech: “I was never the same again; I wasn’t my own man anymore. I was my country’s.” McCain was our country’s man four decades ago. McCain is still our country’s man today.

McCain has set forth a clear agenda: To use all resources for a renewable energy plan for America, to keep taxes low, to cut spending and induce massive job creation as a result of a promising energy plan, to finish the Iraq War with honor (because he was the first to support the surge), to veto all legislation with pork barrel spending, to institute a non-universal comprehensive health care plan, to stand up for life and - the reason which first led me to support McCain - to appoint strict constructionist judges to the likely Supreme Court vacancies.

In his first major presidential decision, McCain found a perfect match to shake up Washington in Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. What a woman. What a nomination speech! What a great future vice president she’s going to be. She’s tenacious; a firecracker. She’s not going to let a single “good ol’ boy” stand in her way. Picking Palin was risky boldness, which is totally McCain. He was a leader that day by picking someone whom thankfully the liberal media didn’t have time to fully vet, patronize and lie about. The Democrats are shaking in their boots because they just don’t know how to criticize this reforming, tax-cutting, spend-cutting, energy hawk, mother of five, governor with approval ratings of more than 80 percent who is not afraid to fight for the principles she believes in. Her executive experience and leadership alone embarrass the other ticket entirely.

If you want a president whose character has been tested and triumphed, if you want a president whose word is his bond, if you a want a president who is his country’s man, vote for John McCain.