The Vanity of Purity

You may be right (on McCain). I would really like for you to be. Take a look at my post a while back on the Presidential Candidates:
http://redhead.blogtownhall.com/2008/04/28/the_presidential _candidates.thtml
You should also read the comments with BrianR. He makes some good points.

I think and Obama presidency will be an abomination, with damage for years to come. What I'm hoping is that people will finally wake up after going through years with this socialist and come to their senses. Short of that, it may waken the forces of revolution. This is probably far fetched, but it may be our last, best hope. I really think McCain would destroy the conservative movement, and make a "Gringrich Revolution" impossible.

By the way, what's up with the name changes recently? What happened to Magnificus? You're wreaking havoc on my blog roll...

I agree with all you said. With that said, I think it's important to note that the GOP is the real 3rd party. My thinking is that progressive liberalism's end game is communism. All labor and it's fruits belong to the state. The libertarian end game is anarchistic. Each man being king of his own state, beholden to none. That puts the GOP right in the middle (in theory).

The problem is that we conservatives have allowed both extremes to saturate our party because we are not activist by nature. I think only a grass roots purge of the infiltrators will subdue party leadership.

I will hold my nose and vote for McCain and vote fiscal and social conservative locally and vocally.

Magnificus, upon reflection sounded too uppity.
Without Equal more closely reflects what I feel about this country...we are W/O=

Thank You for reading...and you must know I agree with you as well.

WE are generally NOT the activist types that kick & scream until they get their way BUT maybe the time has arrived to become VERY ACTIVE in the rebuilding of the Party to start, and the reaffirmation of what it is America Stands FOR.

An Obama victory will make it much much harder to accomplish, though not impossible.
A McCain win, though not the presidency of choice for the conservatives will be a much easier reclamation & restoral project when all is said and done.

W/O=

I should not clutter up your excellent blog with dissent, but I believe a win for McCain will be the death of conservatism in this country. It will send the message to the party bosses that socialism lite is the way to win American elections.

I have seen this time and again. The opponent is so much worse, we must settle for the lesser evil. We conservatives can get it right next time. And the results have been the evolution of a single party system in America as far as ideology is concerned.

It is not out of vanity, but fear for my freedom and that of my children that I feel McCain is a bridge too far. He has said nothing to curb those fears. Neither has the RNC. A line in the sand must be drawn. I will not be a party to the further socialization of this country.

We will become the USSA without my help, but with my kicking and screaming decent all the way.