Have you made up your mind?

Centerline and those in his family old enough to vote have reached a consensus.

We're voting for Hillary Rodham Clinton in the primaries (our state has closed primaries) and hoping that John McCain faces her in the General Election.

We believe that, if we have to have a Democrat as President, Hillary will be the least ideologically driven and most pragmatic, very much like her famous husband - and we would not have to renounce our citizenship.

Our choice for President is John McCain. These are the items which we perceive as his negatives, in descending order of relevance:

1. His attempts to impose restrictions on political speech through campaign finance reform.
2. His stance on the global-warming / climate change hysteria.
3. His stance against forceful interrogations based on his own personal experience.

His positives, which trump all negatives in our view, are (also in descending order of relevance):

1. His overriding pragmatism, which tempers ideology and will eventually drive him to see the error of his ways on 1 and 2 above.
2. His stance on national defense makes him the best candidate to achieve lasting peace and save American lives. Peace can only be achived, in our opinion, by being ethical and the strongest.
3. His position on restricting spending – the only real tax cuts that are possible – which often gets him in trouble with his colleagues.
4. His propensity to be a maverick – to stand against the tide on principle.