[kabar]

McCain is a breathtakingly flawed Republican candidate, but as much as it pains me to say so, he is all we have standing between us and our first genuine Marxist government.

McCain is going to hurt conservatives further down on the ticket. They will have to take different positions from McCain on issues like immigration, global warming, Gitmo, etc. with McCain having positions similar to the Dems. Moreover, McCain has depressed GOP fund raising forcing McCain to depend on federal funds and dipping into the RNC money, which will mean less money for other Rep candidates. People like me are not going to contribute to the RNC or volunteer to help McCain. Nominating the party maverick to be the standard bearer has consequences, none of them good.

[Wolfstar]

People like me are not going to contribute to the RNC or volunteer to help McCain.

Neither am I, plus I'll need to continually remind myself between now and November than McCain is better than either Obama or Clinton.

Nominating the party maverick to be the standard bearer has consequences, none of them good.

Agreed. However, it's important to be truthful and not blame "the party" for our predicament. McCain won more votes in the early primaries than anyone else. So we're stuck with him.

We're stuck with him because conservatives couldn't rally around one acceptable candidate until it was too late to stop McCain.