Reply #54: Yes -- This needs to be said often -- and 2 other very important reasons for supporting the nominee

[Time for change]

1) One more fundie conservative USSC justice and we will be in big trouble. Roe v. Wade will be overturned easily, and so will a lot of other very important liberal/progressive principles:
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Time%20for%20change/282

Furthermore, all of the current fundy USSC justices are young (under 60), except Scalia, who is 72, and can be expected to last close to another 30 years -- longer than many of us expect to live. Stevens is 87 years old, so can't last much longer.

2) Whatever the criticisms of Obama and Clinton, they both firmly believe that government has a role to play in uplifting the citizens of this country. They are both for national health care, for example, a stance that is to the left of Gore's and Kerry's positions when they ran for president. They are also both in favor of government support of housing and education. McCain, on the other hand, goes along with the Reagan/Bush disparagement of "big government" and believes that everything should be privatized.

Make no mistake about it -- If McCain is elected president, unless he adopts policies far to the left of what he has campaigned for and voter for in Congress, he will continue with the Bush/Cheney plan to ruin our country.