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The reason I do not support McCain is simple and has been stated in various forms by many posters on this site, for those that listen:

We fear that a McCain presidency will set the conservative movement back for many, many years. Many of us think that the conservative movement will recover quicker with a Dem in office.

[JasonC]

Yeah well, putting the conservative movement over the country, and wishing ill to the country for the sake a partisan wing's political prospects, is exactly the sin we have been properly excoriating the left for, since the invasion of Iraq.

And there isn't anything conservative about it. Conservatism is not a flag you can wave around and do anything for. Conservatism is about principles, and among those principles are duty and responsibility and realism, and it nowhere authorizes sacrificing the good of your country or the fate of innocent people, to your own political power.

That is instead called Machiavellism or ends justifies the means thinking, and it is in flat contradiction to everything conservatism stands for.

[ex-snook]

"Many of us think that the conservative movement will recover quicker with a Dem in office."

Righto. Bush 41 gave us Perot, Perot gave us Clinton and Clinton gave us a Republican Congress and Bush 43 gave it back to the Dems. Time for a conservative congress again in 2 years and a Conservative President in 4.