I am a retired small business executive and a political conservative who had been an active Republican Party for more than 40 years. I resigned from the Republicans about two years ago because of the take-over of the party by the religious right ; the final straw being George Bush vetoing the bill on stem cell research. I am now an Independent, and hate many of the ideas of both Republican and Democrat parties. The Republicans seem to spend most of their time worrying about abortion and gay marriage, and the Democrates seem to spend most of their time thinking of how to make government bigger and taxing (penalizing) those who are successful and invest, resulting in new jobs. No matter how left or right a person or pary can be, a President can only successfully lead the country from near the center. I see a strong center-conservative leadership strength in John McCain, and unless he pick a VP totally unacceptable to me, I will strongly support his candidacy.
