I am in the same boat as you... I have a whole list of reasons NOT to vote for McCain... But at the same time, I certainly don't want either another Clinton administration, nor an Obama presidency either.
On the other hand, I also realize that the RNC has moved pretty far to the left, that "mainstream republicans" don't have the same interests as I have: To paraphrase a great man, "I didn't leave the republican party. The republican party left me."
I've got a friend who's a recovering addict. She never was able to begin to "recover" until she had hit "rock bottom." Even losing her children wasn't enough. It wasn't until she was going to die, with no family nor friends did she decide that she needed to do something about her addiction. I'm afraid that it's the same with the republican party. I'm tired of voting for "the lesser evil." We're being nothing more than enablers for those who want the republican party to become dem lites. Maybe we need the country to fall apart, to become a 3rd world hell hole before people will get serious about thinking about what this country was meant to be.
More and more, I feel that we're living Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged." I just wish that there was a "Galt's Gulch" to which I could escape.
Mark
I’ve reluctantly concluded that, as much as I detest McCain, the only thing that matters is the WOT. I usually am not a single issue voter, however, I think sitting this one out is playing politics with war. Iraq and Afghanistan are to important to be left to someone like Senator Clinton or Senator Obama.
The WOT is serious business and the only candidate I see as serious on the issue is Senator McCain.
That is a tough pill to swallow.
After McCain, though, I will never vote for another Republican just because “the alternative is worse.”