That is a choice. I prefer a candidate whose STATED positions are in tune with my own, over a candidate whose STATED positions are to destroy our country.
If my candidate does nothing but keep his promises, I win and the country wins.
If your candidate does nothing but keep his promises, our country loses. You have to pray that your candidate is lying to you, or is stopped by a democratic congress.
Otherwise Guantanamo is closed and terrorists are in our states, with access to classified information, and full rights to our court system.
Our intelligence gathering is thwarted by a strict policy against effective interrogation techniques, and a too-close strutiny of wiretapping and other monitoring techniques.
Our hard-earned tax dollars are spent on “fixing” Global Warming, mostly by destroying what is left of our manufacturing base and costing jobs.
Our free-speech rights are endangered as McCain not only pushes the executive to more completely enforce M/F (including pushing it against bloggers and web sites like FR), and then pushing for NEW legislation to “fix” the new loopholes.
Our chance at good judges is compromised, as John McCain is part of the “good old boy” Senate network, and is likely to give the leadership of the senate (democrats) an integral role in picking judges. Probably he’ll take a list and let them winnow it down for him. No Alito, no Roberts, is likely to get RAMMED DOWN THE THROATS of the democratic Senate by a guy who started the Gang of 14 to stop the president from “interfering” in the supreme rights of the Senate to filibuster his nominees.
I have to weigh the enormity of the sacrifice to conservative principles, versus the relative chances of getting Mitt Romney elected vs getting John McCain elected. If I was absolutely positive that John McCain would get elected (and wouldn’t have Huckabee as his VP), I MIGHT give up my principles for him, just to not take the chance on Hillary.
But in fact, I’m actually believing Romney is MORE electable than McCain, and worse, am pretty sure McCain can NOT in the end win election. So I’d be fighting a losing cause having given up my principles.
Sorry. I understand your reasoning, and know how important it is to stop Hillary. But when we do stop her, it would be nice if we’d actually have something to show for it.
McCain could end up listening to his good friend Joe Leiberman, and become even MORE liberal as President, when he has no need to pander to his constituents. Old people sometimes get very liberal as they near death and worry more about likeability and legacy than adherance to principle.
So I disagree with your course of action.
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