Why Should I Vote for McCain

Hey, you've really hit it on the head. I voted for Bush II and have had to chew down a bit of buyer's remorse. I personally like the guy and a lot of what he's done, but I hesitate to say he's really representing the conservative approach to leadership.

Now McCain comes along and he's WORSE.

I suggest you check out my blog. I've posted an article about the sort of things McCain does that make him not only a bad conservative, but an extraordinairily stupid and dangerous man.

Ann Coulter may be right in saying that a Hillary Presidency = a McCain Presidency without the Republicans getting the blame for tanking the country.

I have come to the conclusion that to be true to my beliefs, I will vote for Mitt Romney. He is still on the ballot, since his campaign is just suspended.
This vote gives me peace. Good Luck on your decision.

Today (February 13,2008) I joined the McCain campaign and the American Conservative Union. Fred Thompson is out, Mitt Romney is out, and McCain will be the Republican nominee. I have always sat on the sidelines before, but not now.

Extracting promises or reading the tea leaves is not what we should focus on for the time being, in my view. I don't oppose those things, but I wouldn't stress them. What I believe conservatives must do in this election is fight as hard against the Democrats for the White House as we would if we had a candidate we could believe in and trust (which, unfortunately, we don't) and, should McCain win the Presidency, THEN fight as hard as possible to influence (or force) him to do what he should do instead of what he would like to do. It won't be easy to exercise influence over McCain, but we will have NO ability to influence a Democrat President. We must not give away the White House, but we also must not roll over and wag our tail as we did while Dubya rubbed our belly. And meanwhile, we must fight to make the House and Senate as conservative as possible. And then we must pressure those two bodies, and keep pressuring them, including the non- and anti- conservatives among them, to behave like conservatives, whether they are or not, just as with McCain.

Meanwhile, we need to start coalescing around a Presidential candidate for the next cycle,
McCain if he does what he should, someone else if he doesn't. Whether four years from now or
eight years from now, we mustn't be lurching from one potential nominee to another until an un
-conservative like this one is the Last Man Standing.

There are other things we need to do to revitalize conservatism going forward, but that's a separate topic.

Electorally, we're back to where we were in the Eisenhower/Nixon era. As Goldwater told us then,
"Let's grow up, conservatives."