We conservatives are on defense right now. So, think like a defensive team. When you stop the other side from scoring a huge touchdown that will move their agenda hugely forward you've done some good. Obama winning in 2008 is like the Liberals winning the superbowl.
If we can stop the left-liberals from getting the most liberal President in American history elected, we will have stopped a huge win.
What's on the line? Judges - good vs bad ones, lower tax rates vs Obama's tax hikes, Obama's plan to turn every college kid into a liberal-sheeple-community-activist on taxpayer dime!!, Obama's retreate and defeat out of Iraq, Obama's plan to sit down with our enemies and apologize for America.
We advance conservatism by stopping 2 more Ruth Bader Ginsburgs. McCain has promised Alito/Roberts types. He wants credentialed judges for SCOTUS, a good metric for conservatives to see what's up.
Simply stopping Obama's agenda will be a huge win for conservatives. Now McCain himself is not perfect, but we conservatives can be a 'loyal opposition' that supports him on the 70-80% stuff that is good, and opposes him on stuff like immigration where we part company. We did that with Bush on immigration and it worked for us - we stopped amnesty. McCain has promised border security *FIRST* so we have a few years to move the ball on that in the *right* direction before we have to refight that battle.
All in all, McCain will be not much more annoying than Bush. A bit more of a nanny-stater, but better on spending and will have good instincts on Iraq and GWOT overall. Three more reasons he will be better than Obama btw.
So, instead of a Ginsburg, we get a Souter. I feel better already.