Presidential Election

Does anyone have any doubt which candidate I'll vote for in the Presidential primaries? Long ago, I listed the criteria I use to determine which candidate deserves my vote:

My top three voting issues are:

1. Integrity and Character ...
2. National Security (win the War on Terror)
3. Fiscal policy (lower spending and growth-oriented tax cuts -- I'm a supplysider)

I'm pro-life and pro-immigration.

There is only one Republican addressing the biggest character defect in the Republican Party:

[Sen. John] McCain also promised to curb abuses by those in the influence business, saying that folks engaged in "this nefarious business" of using illegal tactics to sway government would find themselves in jail, just like disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

Of course I like Sen. McCain's position on the war. I can stomach his fiscal policies. That Sen. McCain is also the only Republican that gets it right on the immigration issue is just gravy.

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On Dec. 10, a buddy who is a former Harris County GOP precinct chair and I made a bet. The wager was a complicated one, but basically my position was that Sen. McCain would outperform in the New Hampshire primary. This was when Sen. McCain was polling in the teens and Gov. Romney was leading handily. Not only will I easily win this bet, I'm likely to get a $10 kicker in the event that Sen. McCain wins the New Hampshire primary outright.