John McCain emerged from Super Tuesday the clear victor, and we couldn’t agree more with the results.

McCain presents a domestic policy many from both sides of the isle can agree on. He recognizes a need to cut health care costs, touting plans to increase competition and reform Medicare and Medicaid.

McCain aims to fix the failed immigration system by securing the border, but also by fostering alliances in Mexico and Latin America, improving education and retraining for U.S. workers and aiding immigrants in assimilation.

He acknowledges that America will attract immigrants seeking the opportunity offered in the U.S., and therefore poses a realistic, humane approach to immigration policy.

McCain also acknowledges the vital need to promote and practice sustainability, cut carbon emissions and preserve resources like air, water and land.

He plans to use the market to regulate pollution and emissions, utilizing competition to both preserve the environment and stimulate the economy.

However, we disagree with McCain’s aggressive stance on the war – the time to seek an end to this war is long overdue.

In September, 67 percent of people polled across the world said they wanted troops out of Iraq by the end of the year, according to worldpublicopinion.org.

McCain, however, seeks to strengthen – in other words, increase – troops and launch new counterinsurgency strategy, which suggests under McCain’s strategy, American could be entangled in the war much longer.

Respecting Mike Huckabee as a viable candidate became difficult when he proposed unrealistic solutions, such as eliminating the IRS in the Republican YouTube/CNN debates and quarantining AIDS patients in 1992.

We also fail to find his staged “phone calls from God” amusing and instead believe them unprofessional.

The numbers from the primary reflect our opinion: McCain is clearly the best Republican candidate because of his strong domestic policy and the weak alternatives.