Why I Can't Vote For John McCain, Either

Being terribly disappointed with both of the mainstream choices for President, I haven't yet delved into collecting my respective reasons against either of them, especially since I haven't found someone else to vote for anyway.

But this latest McCain flip-flopping will go on that eventual list. The Supreme Court decided, against the Bush administration, but barely (5-4), that we can't keep foreign prisoners at Guantanamo Bay indefinitely without bringing charges against them. (Some have been there 6 years and haven't been accused of anything.)

I regard this as a positive move - if the government were to call me a terrorist, I wouldn't want to be held indefinitely without any charges. If I am a terrorist, charge me, try me, convict me, and send me to prison.

Anywho, Mr. 2008 McCain, trying to get the conservative vote, says this "is one of the worst decisions in the history of this country. Senator Graham, and Senator Lieberman, and I…made it very clear that these are enemy combatants, these are people who are not citizens. They do not and never have been given the rights that citizens of this country have.

But Mr. 2003 McCain, bucking the conservative party for his principles, wrote with Graham that "we firmly believe it is now time to make a decision on how the United States will move forward regarding the detainees, and to take that important next step. A serious process must be established in the very near term either to formally treat and process the detainees as war criminals or to return them to their countries for appropriate judicial action."

Which is it?

This is not the first thing he's talked both ways about either. I just haven't been motivated to collect them all yet.

Don't mistake this as an endorsement for the most liberal-voting (when he votes at all) senator who is going to magically bring us all together, either. He's got his own inconsistencies I haven't collected, either.

I can't trust anything either of them say.

Alas.