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There are two reasons I will vote for McCain.

Reason #1

This guy needs a Commander in Chief to fight the terrorists. We are in a War, and this guy is fighting for us, we need to watch his back.

Reason #2

Al-Qaeda and the Socialist Marxists need these people for their agenda.

Two points.

Your number 1: every despot, dictator and vile manipulator in history has been fourscore in favor in defending his country, such as it is. Just that is not all there is; there is the kind of country to be defended.

Your number 2: there are a number of ways to change this country into something we the people, wouldn't want to defend; Hillary, Obama and McCain guarantee that end, albeit by different paths.

Although I don’t consider McCain to be “my” guy, I would reluctantly vote for him if he ends up being the nominee, since Duncan Hunter, Fred Thompson, and Mitt Romney have all dropped out.

I would have to agree with GregoTX. Aside from the WOT and judges, I know that McCain would at least look out for the military and would not decimate it the way that Clinton did in the 90’s. He would not pull troops out of Iraq precipitously to appease the Moveon.org nuts.

We’ve worked hard to get things to the point where they are now, and just because we’ve had a few setbacks, that’s no reason to sit on our hands and either not vote or throw our votes away on some third party candidate with a snowball’s chance in Hell. Some people see that as “standing on principle”. I see it as political suicide.
A lot of conservatives sat out the 2006 election to “punish” Republicans and “teach them a lesson”. We lost some of our best Reps and Senators, in the process, and we ended up with a nutty DimocRAT majority that does nothing but have show hearings, plays political games with funding our troops, plays political games with taxes, constantly makes remarks that demoralize our troops and give aid and comfort to our enemies, and plays political games with public opinion, and I could go on and on. Yeah, that REALLY worked out well for us, didn’t it?

So now, some of us want to flush the whole thing down the toilet by refusing to support candidates who definitely aren’t as conservative as we want them to be, but at least they are more conservative than the Socialists being offered up by the Dims. We can either help to vote in the most conservative candidate among available candidates who have a chance of winning, and continue the fight to win hearts and minds, or we can just let go and let the Socialists be elected.

And think about this:

If John McCain wins WITHOUT our support, what reason does he have to pay any attention to us at all? We need to be careful not to burn our bridges here.

I agree with your two reasons.

They are both pretty important and worthy of voting of making McCain my choice in the general election even if he wasn't my choice in the primary.

People be reasonable. There was no RNC "conspiracy" or choosing of McCain by the elite - the guy got the nomination because he appealed to more of the voters in the primaries than any other candidate running.