It's not defeatism. It's realism -- accepting that the next four years are going to be BAD, no matter who wins in November.
> We’ll never have a chance in November
There's no chance now. The only way that will change by November is if both candidates get hit by meteorites, and we get a second chance at picking a real candidate.
What?? Have you heard something? We have meteor showers forecasted?
Or is this just more hype about 'hope' and 'change'?
The war is against liberals. McCain is not a liberal, he is not a Democrat. He is not as pure as the wind driven snow, absolute Christ like perfection, but he has conservative in his soul.
His nomination is at most a lost battle, perhaps even a small battle. The war for conservative absolutes against the liberal hordes must go on.
To not vote for McCain is to surrender the field and abandon the war.
(there might be parallels to contentious objectors fleeing to Canada or Pacifist Rats whining about the war in Iraq, but I won't go there)