“So, please, can we all agree that McCain is not the best nominee, but he is definitely better than Clinton, and a vote for McCain will not be seen as a showing of support, but rather as an anti-Hillary vote?”
With respect, no we can’t all agree on this one. Your premise is that Sen. McCain would be less of a disaster for conservatives than Sen. Clinton would be. Myself and many, many, other conservatives would disagree with you on this. I personally see little meaningful difference in the political views of either candidate.
Perhaps what we could agree on instead is that GOP relies upon the threat of the latest boogeyman of the left to browbeat conservatives into voting for their candidate. What’s different this year is that many conservatives are loudly rejecting the probable GOP nominee as being any better of a choice.
“threat of the latest bogeyman from the left”
What you are describing is politics. People disagree. That is the nature of people. There will always be conservatives, liberals, and everything in between. Therefore, more often than not, the best available candidate does not excite us. If we only voted FOR who we like, and never AGAINST those we don’t like, then we probably would never vote.
Its hard for me to believe that people actually think that McCain would be no better than Hillary. Its got to be the anger talking, making people irrational.