# Very seriously: why would anyone vote for McCain?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [October 15, 2008, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-seriously-why-would-anyone-vote-for-mccain/468013 "2008-10-15T07:08:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-seriously-why-would-anyone-vote-for-mccain/468013/181 "2008-10-20T16:39:17Z")

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> [@9thFloor](#):
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> Why?  
> I can’t know every detail about every issue in advance, but I can tell a snarky, smug, underqualified dickhead when I see one. A person like that in the White House would piss off lots of people and then smile about it. He’s a Ponzi scheme.

Yes, but tell us how you really feel. 😃

> [@9thFloor](#):
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> As for policy positions, they mean squat when they are coming from the mouth of someone who says one thing and then does another. It’s called lying. Since Obama lied about taking public financing, filibustering the telecom bill – which he then VOTED for – didn’t tell the WHOLE truth about Ayers initially with his 'he’s just a guy in the ‘hood that I once sat on a board with’ which left out the other board, the living room fundraiser, etc., etc., etc.
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> When a guy is shady – as Obama has shown himself to be – policy positions can’t even be gotten to since he can’t be trusted as a person.

Did you vote for Bush, by any chance?

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**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-seriously-why-would-anyone-vote-for-mccain/468013/182 "2008-10-20T16:42:21Z")

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> [@IClaudius](#):
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> McCain’s association with Bush era policy and personnel is not a strawman argument.

Tha’s for damn sure! McCain’s craven sucking up to Bush is as blatant and sickening a display of naked ambition (that will sacrifice anything) as I’ve seen in my lifetime.

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**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-seriously-why-would-anyone-vote-for-mccain/468013/183 "2008-10-20T16:50:34Z")

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> [@Stoid](#):
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> Tha’s for damn sure! McCain’s craven sucking up to Bush is as blatant and sickening a display of naked ambition (that will sacrifice anything) as I’ve seen in my lifetime.

Just like Biden and Hilary are sucking up to Obama now?

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**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-seriously-why-would-anyone-vote-for-mccain/468013/184 "2008-10-20T16:54:09Z")

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> [@control-z](#):
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> Just like Biden and Hilary are sucking up to Obama now?

I haven’t noticed either one of them chucking their whole point of view, no. McCain did.

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