Either McCain picked Palin to trick you, or Palin's not as conservative as you think.
I'm sure thats it. Hey look I was supporting McCain before Palin b/c I recognized early on what a disaster having Barack plus a near filibuster proof led Reid Senate plus a bigger Pelosi majority House will be. If you can't understand that then I think you need to look in the mirror and ask who is being fooled.
Whatever McCain's motive was in Palin, bottomline is he did the right thing. Is she an ideological match for me, probably not. But from what I've seen she is way more GOP than Dem and has a lot of common sense, and that is what I really want in a leader. Everything else can be learned and she is a quick study.
Look, McCain could have picked a NOW endorsed lefty woman and he probably would have won every single "Hillary" vote and 10% of the GOP vote to win the election a long time ago. But he didn't. So I think it's more prudent to give McCain the benefit of the doubt than to let Obama have the keys country, especially when we know he'll wreck it.
If you want to toss your vote away that is your prerogative, but remember somethings like the New Deal and Great Society, can't be undone once enacted. So if you really are a true "small government" conservative then you'll think twice about who you are voting for. And if you do vote 3rd party then please do not complain if Gd forbid you or a loved one needs an operation and the doctor tells schedules surgery a year away and says "good luck." That is a realistic outcome of this election and don't tell me the next GOP Congress can undo that. They can't.