“First the handwriting is on the wall for anyone willing to see it. McCain isn’t going to win. “
That’s nonsense. We have seen a lot worse polling for Republican nominees who went on to win.
McCain is even in Ohio vs Obama, well ahead in FL, VA, and close in PA and Oregon. He is doing better now than Bush was doing around this time in 2004.
More importantly, the Obama image is a lot more moderate than Obama reality. The media loves Obama and has built up a junior senator with a thin resume and a marxist background as the savior. Uninformed young people are getting herded into flocking to him. ... But he’s the most liberal Senator in the SU Senate, his record is Ted Kennedy, and his foreign policy is soft-on-enemies and tough-on-US-taxpayers.
“Second, I see no reason to vote for a losing candidate AND give the GOP a go ahead for a further leftward slide.”
Defining where the GOP goes is a matter for the GOP primary, not the general election. the general election is about where the *country* will go. And letting Obama win is letting America take a sharp left turn.
“Instead I’ll write in a conservative candidate to show what I want to see from the GOP.” - I will be doing that ... In the primary. In the general election, we need to defeat the left-liberal pro-amnesty pro-UN-tax anti-Iraq-war anti-Bush-tax-cut pro-abort pro-judicial-activism pro-socialized-medicine Barack Obama.
You assume wrongly that McCain can beat Obama; he can’t. The Repubs picked the worst possible nominee...now this nominee will lose big.