My reasons

Seven reasons why I won't vote for Sen. McCain in 2008

1. His foreign policy is beligerant and will continue to add mega-billions to the national debt through continued wars that are useless expenditures of money and lives.

2. McCain endorses economic policies that are destroying the middleclass, causing jobs to go overseas, and endangering the future of our offspring for decades to come. I don't believe that someone making millions is middle-class. I am middle-class.

3. McCain is America's "Number One Neocon" with direct ties to Bill Kristol's rightwing extremist oganization, Project for a New American Century (PNAC), I am not a raging liberal, but I detest the Neocon movement. I am pro-choice and while I don't think president's should be elected based on that particular ideal, I fear most the radical right wing Supreme Court justices that will be appointed during his reign. Oh, he's not a king, I forgot.

4. I have read long lists of repeated flip-flops in his voting record and his statements that go back a long way. He is changing all his stances based on his desire to appeal to the right wing movement and get elected. His maverick ways and attempts to work across the aisle are completely evaporating as he gets closer to the election.

5. He promised in February not run a negative campaign. Then, five months later, rather than discuss important issues like high energy prices and rising unemployment, McCain's advisors unleashed a scurrilous, Karl Rove-inspired attack on Barack Obama's character , such as calling him "arrogant" -- a substitute for "uppity" with racial overtones. Both candidates are getting more and more negative, so this one is a stand-off.

6. I have read several accounts from other POW's and military personnel that indicates that McCain is distoring his POW record and exploiting it for political gain. I don't believe being a POW is any particular skill needed to be President.

7. My biggest reason is my belief that if McCain wins in November, the neocons in Washington will increase their power, Bush's incompetent cronies will remain in office, our nation will become more divided, U.S. armed forces will attack Iran, and the Supreme Court will become completely corrupted by extreme right wing conservatives who will take away any rights I once thought I had.

I am saddened that at the early stages of this campaign I felt that there was hope for the future of my country, that we would become again a moral world leader and inspiration, that our economy would prosper, that maybe things would be different. Now it seems that it all is politics as usual, with both candidates doing whatever they need to do and say to try to appeal to the voters they are shooting for in order to win. No matter what kinds of ideals these politicians begin with, they end up prostituting themselves for power. Both of them.

I will no doubt vote Democrat, because of the reasons that I don't want to vote for McCain, but the whole thing just leaves a really bad taste in my mouth on this early Saturday morning.