I agree with most of your thoughts here. I am not comforted by the thought of McCain appointing judges. We have appointed seven of nine of current judges. Where are we? We’re loosing more case than we win. And the reason is people like John McCain are representing our side in these matters. That either stops, or we loose no matter what. We could have a situation where we have 9 of 9 judges, and still loose far too many cases. Is that the goal?
I recognize Obama causes a lot of angst. At some point we either take a stand or our next nominee will be worse than McCain, and the next worse than him.
We need to change direction as a party, and this is my stand. Folks may think that foolish, but I don’t not want to watch this naiton slide further over the edge, without having a concerted effort by Conservatives to turn this thing around.
And under John McCain, nothing gets turned around. Under him Conservatism is dormant, and then we get the McCain to the X to replace him.
I won’t be playing that game any longer.
I appreciate the thoughts behind your decision. I think they are reasoned, as far as they go.
FWIW, I pretty much agree. I think this will be the first time I put so much stock in who the VP will be. If it's a young conservative I will probably end up voting for McCain, but if it's another "centrist" I'll probably only vote at the local level.