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Welcome to FreeRepublic.

Your views are equally as valid as anyone's on this forum. Keep in mind, as a suggestion, that this is a "conservative" forum and not necessarily a Republican Party forum. That is just a suggestion that will hopefully keep you from getting into some of the many "flame wars" that seem to permeate the forum these days.

Personally I don't diminish the right of any citizen to cast their votes as they see fit, nor do I attempt to change minds.

I am not as concerned as many, extolling the virtues of voting for the "lessor of two evils argument, of an Obama Presidency. The Executive Branch is only one of three equal branches.

What I am, just FYI, is very tired of the death grip the two corrupt major political parties have on our process.

I am also an old (relatively speaking) and very tired ex-stalwart of the GOP. No longer. I have finally taken George Washington's warnings about allegiances to political parties (in his farewell address to the Republic) to heart and will vote for the individual that comes the closest to representing my "Constitutionally Conservative" beliefs.

John McCain doesn't fit that profile, unfortunately.

Again, I take no issue with you nor your planned vote. It is the only capital any of us have in our political process.

Mitch McConnel is doing extremely important work in one of those "three equal branches" of which you speak to shine the light on the watermelon marxism (green on the outside, red on the inside) of the cap-and-trade bill.

Unfortuantely, Mitch is a member of the GOP, and the only method of realizing the balancing power of the senate rules is with a solid, unified 40+ vote minority to block the road to tyranny.

You can rest assured that the enemies of the republic will always join together in a strong "coalition" party, and notwithstanding Washington's or Eisenhower's admonitions, you've GOT to have an opposition party for the designed-in gridlock to function.

So vote your conscience, but keep in mind that voting down-ticket is critical, regardless of how you vote for or against McPain.

Like it or not, if Obama wins, it will be called a landslide, he will be said to have a "mandate" for nearly anything shy of nationalizing industry, he will have large coattails in Congress, the popular perception will be that conservatism is dead, and there will be no political support for Congresscritters (like Mcconnel) to base their opposition to his policies or his Supreme Court appointees.