Drawing political parallels between a party-oriented system without an independent executive and no permanent government, and a individual-oriented system with an independent executive and a permanent government is fraught with problems. They are totally different political cultures and bear very little relation to one another.
In the US, the individual is the fundamental political entity (parties do not even exist in our Constitution), while in the European parliamentary systems, the party is the fundamental political entity. We think, politically, very differently because of this and it is the basis of the great difference between the US and the rest of the world. You brush this aside and make party arguments for a system in which individuals are primary, not parties. This is a cultural difference that many Europeans just don’t understand – along with US leftists, who think we have a Euro-style party-oriented parliamentary system, as evidenced by their inane “no confidence” votes, which have no meaning in our system.
As to what’s best for our country, McCain is looking to give our country away, so that argument doesn’t go very far.
