I’m certainly not writing hillary off until the fat lady sings. But I wouldn’t underestimate Obama either.
As for our duty to vote, we have been put into an impossible position. Hillary is a menace. Obama is a menace. And McCain is a menace.
All in different ways, but all extremely serious. McCain is a little better than the other two, but the problem is that if he wins it will destroy the party and the conservative movement, and he will be in a stronger position to pass malign legislation than a Democrat would be.
There are no easy answers here. The Republican Party is on course to commit suicide no matter which of the three wins, and perhaps to bring the country down with it, given the illegal amnesty problem and the Islamic problem and the Chinese and Russian problems, not to speak of a looming world-wide economic catastrophe on the horizon.
Our country has its back against the wall, and we have been given three impossible choices.
I do not believe that McCain will arrest conservative activists. The Democrats will.
As long as conservatives are free to organize at the grassroots level, there is hope. We don't need a conservative president. We just need a president who will leave us free to organize.
The Minutemen exist because Bush tolerated their existence. The Democrats will not tolerate such groups. They will prosecute conservative activists and throw many of our leaders in jail.
Granted, McCain is far from the ideal GOP candidate, but seems significantly better than the other two.
Destroy the party? The GOP has been very resiliant over 150 years, and has not been "destroyed" despite such non-conservative nominees as Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, George H. W. Bush, and Bob Dole. This is not the first time, even in relatively recent history, that this is happening. And surely an "in" party holding the White House is less likely to be "destroyed" than an "out" party.
McCain "in a stronger position to pass malign legislation than a Democrat"? That depends to a large extent on the makeup of the next Congress, but a 'Rat Congress and a 'Rat president figures to be the most malign circumstance.