He Supported President Bush in 2004 4

If I don't vote for McCain in November, this will be the primary reason.  Flash back to 2004.  Anybody who was paying attention had already realized that Bush was incompetent and was doing serious, long term damage to our country.  There were rumors of a McCain / Kerry ticket, and all the signs pointed towards America's moderates giving a failed president his walking papers.  Out of nowhere, McCain threw his full weight behind President Bush in an enthusiastic endorsement.

In my mind, this is the moment that we needed the maverick senator from Arizona to live up to his billing as somebody who puts his country ahead of his political party.  Instead, he played party politics for a man who had sold out the conservative principles of small government and federalism, and who had personally smeared him in despicable fashion in 2000.

I am having a hard time forgiving McCain for this.