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I still want to know who this guy is named “GOP” who didn’t listen to those who “warned” him.

Fact is, if there WAS such a person, he’d be so tired of being “warned” against so many different candidates that he’d be sick of it. We were a lot better at saying who not to vote for, than backing a candidate that we could all vote for.

You can win people by convincing them to embrace conservative values, or you can try to threaten them into voting for your candidates. But the 2nd path is rarely successful, because people who would give in to threats will probably vote for the democrats anyway.

Of course, in the real world the average voter knew nothing of this “threat” that was made, and simply voted for the candidate they felt most comfortable with. And unfortunately, that was John McCain more often than any other candidate.

We had hoped it could be Fred Thompson, but he failed because (in my opinion) of his lack of interest in religion. That gave rise to Huckabee.

When Fred wasn’t the candidate, the only candidates left were Romney and Huckabee. And neither was acceptable to a portion of the base either.

So essentially, conservatives offered 5 candidates this year, NONE of whom were acceptable to all parts of the base.

Of those candidates, Romney was the closest to ESPOUSING the views of all the parts of conservatism, but he wasn’t trusted. But the average voter saw him as very conservative, and in fact many independents turned from him because of that.

The funniest part was how we all knew that picking a Senator was a bad idea, but then many of us grabbed a former senator, as if that was better than a sitting senator.

We are stuck with McCain as our nominee. Some conservatives will stay home. Some will grudgingly vote for him. Some will actively work for him, in order to pull other conservative house and senate candidates along into a winning situation.

If McCain loses, and the conservatives fail to show up, it will be the end of conservatives for a few years, because no moderate is going to let us have a conservative candidate because of our lack of loyalty. Heck, we’ve been screaming at the moderates about this for years, and payback will be sweet for them.

If McCain WINS, and conservatives fail to show up, it will be worse for conservatives, because it will prove you can win without us, if you just move to the left enough. The next candidate will make McCain look like Ronald Reagan.

If however conservatives DO support McCain while pointing out his flaws, if he loses we can use our support as a basis for pushing a more conservative candidate next time, as well as for the moderates VOTING for our more conservative candidate.

And if he wins, he’ll be beholden to us, and will have to at least try to keep us happy enough not to lose us for the next election.

Unless of course he decides to be a 1-term president.

My goal now is to elect as many republicans as possible, to try to take back the house, and to keep the democrats from 60 votes in the senate.

And I will support McCain, unless a 3rd-party challenge pops up that looks like it has a real chance at actually WINNING.

I will NOT subject the country to 4 years of Obama to “teach us a lesson”, or to “win a political victory in 2012”.