Nope. If the GOP gives McCain the nod I’m looking elsewhere.
With McCain as pres., the Republican party will shift leftward to accommodate his leftist views. This will happen as he will be the de facto leader of the party. (Nixon even got support for his radical left wage & price controls from congressional Republicans).
This will move the entire nation even further to the left and marginalize conservatism to the kook fringe, a position from which it will take generations (if ever) to recover as it will have no legitimate political home.
A Hillary election creates a rallying point for conservatism (in and out of congress). This sets up a congressional force against her agenda as well as a breeding ground for new conservative thought and leadership.
The judiciary argument is a red herring. McCain has Warren Rudman (David Souter’s chief advocate) as his judiciary adviser.
None of this really worries me however as McCain, if he is the party nominee, will not win the general election.
When Democrats & all liberals are faced with the choice between a hard left, Marxist liberal & a soft core liberal, they will vote for the hard core liberal. Conservatives will stay away in droves & there simply are not enough moderates to carry the day for McCain.
Agreed. I will NOT vote for a man who's spent the over two decades pimping for Teddy Kennedy. There are certain lines a person with principles cannot cross and voting for McCain is something I will NOT do.
Moreover, an old, visibly-diseased, psychotic RINO can do just too much damage to the country. What we are witnessing now is the death throes of the GOP, and it ain't pretty. There is no other way to plausibly explain a mediocrity like McCain getting the party nomination.