OK, so he's wrong about some things, including embryonic stem-cell research. So what? I've never encountered a politician who's right about everything; I've never even encountered a pope who's right about everything. But I would vote for McCain over Obama even if Obama were pro-life, which he manifestly is not. - blogger at Sacramentum Vitae
I agree with the comment that neither Barack Obama nor John McCain are perfect. As a black Catholic who does not believe in abortion, I would like to be able to vote for McCain, but there is no way I can. Racism is a sin, period. And as far as I am concerned, McCain's waffling on the Confederate flag during the 2000 campaign speaks about his indifference to African Americans and willingness to lie. - Commenter Jessica on Sacramentum Vitae
Already I can anticipate comments/e-mails "Quasi pro-life? come on! She had a baby with downs-syndrome!" Yes, but she is a protestant who supports contraception, the ultimate enslavement of women. The protestant bit is incidental, I don't care about that per se, but it tends to be the case that most protestants do not see the link between abortion and contraception. This is a huge problem for me, because just as truly as pornography creates the throw-away woman, so does contraception create the throw-away baby, because both make the human dignity of the other irrelevant, and therefore something to be discarded at the earliest convenience. - Athanasius Contra Mundum
John McCain has chosen Sarah Palin as his running mate. It really has made me hope that he will be the next President. I am full of hope for the future of a country that has a woman like Sarah Palin involved in politics. - home-schooling mother from South Australia ("Aussiecoffeeshop" blog)
I'm not registered to vote (...I live in DC), do not plan to vote, and have no idea what I would do if I did plan to vote. I am not planning to try to get you guys to vote for somebody, largely because of the colossal naivete I displayed the last time I tried that. But I'm still interested in figuring out what Sarah Palin's deal is, because I do hope that both parties can be reshaped so that neither of them is based on support for radical evil. - Eve Tushnet
To my mind, the most pressing issue facing America today is the holocaust of abortion. Nearly 50 million innocent dead in the U.S., and their blood cries out to the Lord for satisfaction. Nearly two million more are killed every year. On the strength of John McCain's long (though imperfect) record of opposition to abortion on demand, his zero rating from NARAL, and most especially his selection of a reliable pro-lifer as his running mate (as I repeatedly demanded on this blog that he do as a pre-requisite of my support) I have concluded that I can believe Senator McCain's repeated promise to be a pro-life president. - blogger at Thoughts of a Regular Guy
Proportionality only comes into play when one is deciding between two options both of which fall short of being a true moral good. This fits voting to a T, which is why many people accurately describe their experience of voting as choosing the lesser of two evils. In many important ways, though not all, this is exactly what we do, which is why prudence is so necessary. Therefore, we can see that there are times when choosing the lesser of two evils is the best we can do, thus we choose either means or even ends that in an ideal situation we would not choose. It is morally licit to do this when voting. I urge everyone to read Faithful Citizenship, it addresses this quite well. It's like that one psychological test, which I had to take, along with several others, before being admitted as a deacon candidate, that gives you two bad choices, say, between clubbing a baby seal or smacking your mom and you have to pick one with no caveats and no skipping....I think to say or suggest McCain and Obama are similar in their views regarding abortion, or their views have some moral equivalence, is a mistaken analysis. I cannot in good conscience cast a vote for any candidate who advocates abortion. This is true at any level of government. If no candidate on the ballot is prolife, then I don't vote, but work hard between elections to affect prolife attitudes and policies in the community and with those elected to serve in government. - Deacon Scott Dodge
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