Oh please! I don't buy into the all-or-nothing ("If I can't get everything I want I'll just have to blow my brains out") game. That's for defeatist losers.
No defeatist-loser here. Just a man of conscience. If McCain is “Your Guy”, by all means vote your conscience. I do think, though, that an awful lot of people are not voting their conscience, but are having McCain forced on them. This, to me, is the real issue. You and others are quick to point out how bad the alternative is (I agree with that assessment, by the way.) and are quick to paint a dark picture of life under O. and H. I find my emotions reacting very strongly to that, no question. But, I find something else inside sounding an alarm, as well. And as I pause and think about what is setting off that alarm I am filled with all kinds of questions that have not been satisfactorily (in my view) answered. “He’s the candidate, deal with it,” is no kind of answer, given the ominous juncture we are at in this country.