Let me start this off by saying that I decided to support McCain after Super Tuesday, the process of "picking" someone was one that was tough for me and I had no idea that candidates would be dropping so quickly. Like many people, I wanted to pick a candidate, but then had trouble finding one where I could agree with on enough policies to support one. In the Beginning I leaned heavily towards Tom Tancredo. He had a great illegal-immigration policy and seemed like a very intelligent person. Unfortunately he was not a front-runner...or close to it...so he bowed out fairly early. John McCain has been someone that I have liked, admired and very much respected. I disagree on some issues with him, especially immigration and has made it tough for me to support him. However there is a lot of things I agree with him on, staying in Iraq and the fact he was the one that wanted the strategy before Bush put it in and has been working, is a very good test result. He is also someone that has worked with people on the other aisle. Right-wingers call him a liberal for it, but it's called compromise and a president that works with both sides is a positive, not a negative. In our present situation I think we need a strong leader who does have strong national defense and I think John McCain is the only one. I like Obama as a person and is very charismatic, but I simply don't think he has the experience. An 2 (or 4?) year Senator becoming president at a time of war, with no foreign policy experience? I don't like it. Hillary Clinton I disagree with, but I do think she is quite smart, but I do disagree with her on key policies such as Iraq, Taxes and other very key issues to me. To wrap it up, I'll be doing a write up on "What Now?" for the republicans and democrats shortly. | 
