Have you read the endless posts here advising one and all that the poster will not vote? Not for McCain, not for Obama, nor for Barr, not for Nader and not for McKinney.
Voting for other than the R or D can be termed a “protest vote” as it will count for naught. That’s fine, it’s your right. Not much different than voting R in California or D in Alabama, I suppose.
Still, after the 2000 election, one should think long and hard about not voting or casting a protest vote.
Sometimes life is tough and we have to choose between the lesser of two evils.
Until you or I run for POTUS, there just won’t be a perfect canddiate.
I am old enough to have been down this road MANY TIMES.
There were cases I went with the "lesser if two evils" (situation ethics-based morals) and cases I went for whom I truly wanted which was neither the (D) nor the (R-RINO) (moral absolutism).
I cannot be worried about what the guy with the puncher or lever in the next poll station booth is doing with his ballot, nor 100 people on down from him, nor 1000, nor 100,000 nor even a million. In that little booth that I myself am in, I am only responsible at the end of the day to cast an honest vote that does not LIE but most clearly represents ME.
I can tell you from life experience I was much more satisfied with my vote and my choice in those cases I went on principle and answered the call to a deeper voice within my soul, than when I rationalized and ended up with evil anyways (for example 10 million more illegal alien invaders and illegal alien crime and welfarism spinning out of control).
So I for one know--if given the choice guaranteed by our fighting men and women overseas for years--I will be voting CONSERVATIVE this year, neither for Socialist Democratism nor Reach-Over-The-Aisle Appeasing RINOism).
Like I said, your mileage may very.
The fact the Conservative movement may not get off the ground in its challenge to Socialists and RINOs this year is because of the thinking of too many Conservatives who will compromise and vote for a RINO rather than actually join us and build a counter-alternative. So you see, in not joining the Conservative side it is only a self-fulfilling prophecy, that then sets up the defeatist baseball pitch of "well, HE CANNOT WIN!".
Why not go meet some of the Electors on your ballot, such as those pledged to McCain and those pledged to one or more conservatives on your ballot, and see which group of these fellow Americans you personally are more in line with?
If it is more with the McCain supporters, your political position may not necessary have been that of Conservative in the first place. But that is fine.