I may try to overcome my inertia and vote Tuesday for Romney, though I don’t see him as much better. But it may be the last time this year I bother to vote. Between McCain and the fact that Daley will ensure Durbin wins, 317 million to six, there’s no real reason to walk the 1,000 feet to the polls.

Now she tells me that she is not sure if she will vote for her, she might vote for McCain.

My problem with this is anyone can tell you something but once the curtain is drawn and they start thinking about which lever to pull, you can pretty well guess that a person is not going to jump party lines on just one vote. – Lorica

So, I think GWR has a point, it’s too early to tell. I think it is going to be one wild ride, though, so everybody hang on!

Great stuff! While much of the conservative movement seems to be devolving into a small group of loopy cultists running around firing cap pistols into the air, your aim remains straight and true. You are the “true conservative,” my dear.

First off, let’s dispose of the nonsense:

Spoken like a true shill of the Repuplican Party. No need to think, they’ll do it for you.

Get serious, Ted. You’ve been around here often enough to know that ST, NC Cop, and the others who will vote for McCain if he’s on the November ballot think for themselves and have always put country ahead of party. You owe them an apology for that.

Now down to cases. Realistically, there are only two possible nominees for each party. Everyone else has either withdrawn or is finished but doesn’t know it yet. It will be McCain or Romney against Clinton or Obama.

If Romney wins the nomination, it’s an easy choice. You don’t hear any great number of conservatives hedging on whether they can support him.

McCain’s the one that gives us problems. Rovin looks ahead to what we could expect from the Democrats:

Eight years of higher taxes, entitlements ballooning, and maybe up to three liberal Supreme Court justices appointed

To which I respond, how will that change in a McCain presidency? And you can throw in more global warming mandates, weakening of the first amendment, and a cushy-soft policy toward illegal immigration.

So let’s be honest – if McCain is the GOP nominee, we’re headed for at least four years of leftish policies at home, no matter who wins.

For the moment, set aside the WOT. I’ll come back to that later.

You’ve all heard the old saw about how to cook a frog. Throw him into boiling water and he will jump right out, but if you put him in cold water and turn up the heat, he won’t react until it’s too late.

America is the frog, and socialism is the boiling pot. The heat’s been turned up slowly for years now. Don’t believe it’s true? Look how many socialist ideas are now entrenched as government bureaucracies that we’d have one hell of a battle to remove.

All three – Obama, Clinton, and McCain – want to continue to turn up the heat, but it’s HOW they want to do it that separates them.

Obama is Mr. Smooth. ST’s been wise to his game plan from the start (here and here, for example). He’d boil us pretty darn fast, but sugar-coat the whole thing so it won’t seem so bad. He’d probably get the GOP members of Congress to go along with a lot of it, in the name of “unity” and “bipartisanship”.

McCain will be a little rougher around the edges, but I think the congressional Republicans won’t have the sense to fight back too hard against programs from one of their own that won’t differ too much from the Democrat plans.

Hillary wants to toss us in the boiling water. Her overbearing approach to everything will actually give the Republicans in Congress a backbone. I think they’d be inclined to fight.

No matter what, the net effect on the economy and the domestic front will be bad. Paradoxically, it may be least bad with Hillary because her typical ham-handed, clumsy, shrill style will galvanize opposition in a way that Obama and McCain will not. Here, Ted really does have a valid point – but not one that should make anyone actually vote for her.

Now add the WOT to the mix. McCain will be solid, the Dems range from Obama’s naive quick surrender to Hillary’s more nuanced phased version of running away.

So if it’s McCain vs. Obama, I will not hesitate to vote for McCain. At home, we’re in trouble regardless, but at least McCain will continue to fight the good fight against islamofascism.

That leaves McCain vs. Clinton. That’s the toughest call, and unfortunately it’s also the most likely scenario.

Ted’s for Clinton: let the left go berserk in the streets for four years and shock the public to its senses, after which we’ll get a conservative administration in 2012. He sees Hillary as an emetic that will make America disgorge liberalism for a good long while. That idea has some merit as well as historical validation, but it ignores the overriding impact of the WOT.

ST’s approach is to stick with McCain because nothing is as important as being victorious in the WOT. That has all the priorities in order, but I think it concedes that we won’t see a conservative in the White House again for another generation, with all the attendant consequences.

The question is, which is riskier?

ANSWER: IT’S TOO EARLY TO TELL, PEOPLE!!!

The WOT has been tremendously successful for the past year. Let’s see how it looks by October. If AQ is on its last legs, then McCain loses much of his main appeal. If AQ is resurgent or, God forbid, gets its hands on a nuke, then it’s infinitely more important to have a real commander in chief and Hillary’s an unacceptable risk.

And if we’re really lucky, we won’t have to worry about this Hobson’s choice.

EXACTLY what I am counting on and it is precisely why I am doing it.

So it’s out of spite; no problem with hurting the country to prove a point.

Look we are all travelling the razors edge. Vote McCain and we have to deal with his need for press approval, which will move him leftward. Or not vote and hope and pray that after 4 years of a Dem administration a new Reagan will appear, and turn this Dem into the next in a long line of 1 termers. People forget what the MSM is telling you about McCain, they would lie to their mothers to get McCain the Rep Nomination. Outside of Florida there has yet to be an purely Rep Primary, and Florida was obviously going to go McCain for 2 reasons. 1st the old folk vote, I heard they broke 3 to 1 for McCain. Why Cuz old folks like to vote for old folks, to protect their entitlements. Fine, I don’t have a problem with that. 2nd reason, John’s stance on immigration won him the hispanic vote.

Now let’s just see how well he does on Super Tuesday. I don’t think that Arnold is going to help him any in Florida, as he has pretty much po’d every Rep in the state. I am still boggled at the Texas Govenor’s support of John and I think his immigration stance is going to kill him in Texas. Illinois has a fairly large Morman population and most of us out here in the fringes of space…aka not Chicago, were pretty much Fred heads, and will most likely vote for Romney as we don’t see Huck having a snowflakes chance in “not paradise” of winning the election anyway. There are some pretty big states out there to grab, and it ain’t over till it’s over. I know I am voting Romney come Tuesday. There is no way I would miss this primary, even if I had to be late for my Mom’s funeral, I would still vote in it. – Lorica

This nation needs to stay strong. Decisions made in the next 8 years carry on for a few generations. Just like FDR’s programs that are still hear today it is in America’s best interest to vote for the candidate (out of the top two candidates) who believe in less government and a strong national security policy.

Spoken like a true shill of the Repuplican Party. No need to think, they’ll do it for you.

What a crock, Ted. I find it offensive that you think people who have decided to vote for McCain should he be the nominee arent thinking for themselves and that they’re just being “shills” for the party.

Take McCain and the points and re-focus on the BIG GAME, which is defeating the Democratic nominee.

Spoken like a true shill of the Repuplican Party. No need to think, they’ll do it for you.

Eight years of higher taxes, entitlements ballooning, and maybe up to three liberal Supreme Court justices appointed ——- roll the dice——but please remember, everything’s in the pot, including your children and grandchildren’s future.

EXACTLY what I am counting on and it is precisely why I am doing it.

No matter what my differences are with the candidates – whether we’re talking Mitt, McCain, or Huck – I would not hesitate for a second to pull the lever for any of them against whoever the Dem nominee is. They understand the importance of winning in Iraq, as well as the overall GWOT.

Thanks Sis, Finally a website who’s owner has the common sense to know the diffence between the two partys—-even though we are not happy with the choices.

Here’s my argument for those who claim they will sit out or even vote for a Democratic candidate if John McCain is the Republican nominee:

It’s the Last Day to witness the CRUCIFICTION OF JOHN McCAIN by the “puritan conservatives”. Be sure to step up to the cross and heave a spit on the old man that some here are claiming Hillary is more conservative than McCain——what a load of horse manure.

With the Superbowl taking over the media frenzy and silencing the likes of Limbaugh, Hannity, Coulter, et all, maybe rational heads will come down from their “Pontius Pilot” thrones and realize there is NO POLL showing that Romney can defeat Hillary or Obama, (in fact he is losing by double digits to both of them in most polls), while the same polls show McCain defeating either Democrat by 9-15 points. Take McCain and the points and re-focus on the BIG GAME, which is defeating the Democratic nominee.
Or do “conservatives” really want to gamble with putting Hillary and Bill back on the throne?

Latest Gallop national tracking poll: McCain 37% Romney 22%

Disclaimer: Yes, I do have many issues with McCain of great concern that does not please me as much as others here. Neither of the two remaining viable candidates fit into the mold of the pure principals of conservatism. The “my party has left me” faction have valid points. But fracturing the party to the point that allows another eight years of a Clinton Dynasty would be the ultimate sin. Eight years of higher taxes, entitlements ballooning, and maybe up to three liberal Supreme Court justices appointed ——- roll the dice——but please remember, everything’s in the pot, including your children and grandchildren’s future.

Oh, and I like the Giants + the points.

I saw that, Ted. I think it’s going to be an ugly election year.

Puts me in mind of the college football season we had.

I mean, what happens if Hillary ends up in the White House for 8 years just like Bill? What if Hillary is the destruction of this country that you fear so much?

If after 4 yours of Hillary Americans do not vote her out of the White House, then we will have deserved it because we would have loss all facualties related to governement and poltics.

I guess it’s a moot point, because it seems that a Hillary presidency is inevitable. I just hope we can survive her.

We can, but it’s going to hurt.

America needs a slap in the face NC, to get us out of this vicious cycle that we absolutely will not survive regardless.