“In my opinion, voting for a losing (or even winning-BCC) McCain is only encouraging the GOP further leftward so I’m writing my conservative choice in come November.”
I too will be writing in my choice. Where have all the conservatives goon?
I had also said that I could never vote for McCain, but realize the other choice is impossible to consider. I will vote for McCain because I can not stand the thought of Obama or Hillary in the White House.
Apparently they have wandered off to join the Party of One.
What, one asks, is encouraging the GOP further leftward? The fact that hardly anyone voted for the more conservative candidates.
People can wail all they want about not having a great candidate, but the fact remains that there were candidates who were more conservative than John McCain, but who got very few votes. So few that they actually dropped out without anyone even really noticing.
With very few people actually voting "conservative," in the sense that word seems to be used by many here, of course the party is going to gravitate toward the middle.