I am a life-long conservative (YAF member in high school) but also a Ron Paul supporter so take what I say for what you think it is worth.
I won’t support Obama or Clinton (obviously) but I cannot and will not vote for McCain. Those who champion McCain because he will pick better Supreme Court nominees, better support the war on terror, etc. make a good point and deserve a serious rebuttal.
My take on the matter is this:
If we support McCain he almost certainly won’t be elected president. The MSM is just waiting until McCain has been irrevocably selected as the Republican candidate to unload on him (and us) about his temper, the Keating 5, his tacky “bomb, bomb Iran” comments, etc. They may be able to goad McCain into melting down on national TV. This will no doubt be their goal. If we dutifully campaign for him and vote for him anyway, he will lose by a respectable margin. Then the MSM can declare that he could have been President if only he had been a little more “mainstream” by supporting (insert here whatever liberal positions we are supposed to be willing to sell out for power (gun control, abortion, etc.)). The Republican Party, whose main goal is to win elections, will probably concur. Why shouldn’t they? If you were willing to sell out on immigration etc. why shouldn’t you be willing to sell out on abortion or 2nd amendment rights? The party will lean more to the left to win future elections.
On the other hand, if we refuse to go along with this McCain will lose big time and the Republican Party (whose goal, remember, is to win elections) will crawl out of the wreckage and realize selling out conservatives is a losing proposition.
In either case we get Clinton or Obama as our next president, but with the second scenario we still have a party.
Comments?
That’s pretty much the way I see it also.