No defeatist-loser here. Just a man of conscience. If McCain is “Your Guy”, by all means vote your conscience. I do think, though, that an awful lot of people are not voting their conscience, but are having McCain forced on them. This, to me, is the real issue. You and others are quick to point out how bad the alternative is (I agree with that assessment, by the way.) and are quick to paint a dark picture of life under O. and H. I find my emotions reacting very strongly to that, no question. But, I find something else inside sounding an alarm, as well. And as I pause and think about what is setting off that alarm I am filled with all kinds of questions that have not been satisfactorily (in my view) answered. “He’s the candidate, deal with it,” is no kind of answer, given the ominous juncture we are at in this country.
I totally understand, but at least McCain will be with us on some issues and having a Republican president elected will hopefully produce coattails and keep the damage minimal to none in the Congressional and Senate elections.
If conservatives stay home due to Mc Cain we will not only get socialism but a willing Congress to happily pass everthing the savior wants.
I think McCain will be a better CIC than a Dim and will hopefully produce better judges. He hopefully will veto all earmarks. This would be a good start. If he picks a good conservative VP, we might rest easy as he is old and not in the best health.
Mc Cain is definitely not the best, but we were all split between him-Huckabee-Romney-Thompson at first and even Rudy to some extent. It was a plurality and McCain is what we got. We have to live with it!!
Politics is and has always been the lessor of two evils. So your conscience has no problem helping elect the greater evil. How bizarre/warped is that? In the adult real world, voting for, voting against, or staying home, all have ramifications and consequences.