“Help me out, what conservative candidates are currently running under the Republican party banner now? (I did not realize there were any.)”
Conservative Phil Gramm is running ... as MCCain’s economic advisor.
If McCain wins, there will be conservatives in the White House (if not in the president’s chair). If Obama wins, there wont be a single shred of conservative influence. It will be hate-speech to even express conservative views.
that is the best case for voting for McCain that I have seen so far.
I may still vote Barr, and hope for the total destruction of the republican party, to be replaced within an election cycle or two by a new conservative party that embraces fiscal conservatism, the constitution, and libertarian social policies.