[xsmommy]

oh when the time comes i will probably vote for him, but i will NEVER stop griping about him, i won’t give dime one to him and sure as hell am not going to volunteer one second of my time for his election. so yeah, more or less, the answer is still no.

[outofstyle]

To win, a Republican needs passionate energetic supporters to contribute money, and volunteer for the "ground game." This work is usually done by conservatives.

McCain will get my vote. However, he will need to rely on his dedicated base of "moderates" and "mavericks" for his "get out the vote" effort. I have a hunch it ain't gonna work.

[Captain Kirk]

You might as well ask us to join Don Quixote and tilt at some windmills.

McCain will lose in a landslide to Obama, no matter what you do.

[TBall]

I will never vote McCain.

[Cicero]

No.

It’s not a question of hatred or anger or irrationality.

McCain is marginally better than the other two candidates, but only marginally. And if he is elected, he’ll have a much easier time pushing abominations through congress, with bipartisan support for illegal amnesty, the LOST treaty, increased taxes, a new fairness doctrine against conservative radio, and all the rest of it.

At least with Obama in the White House the country and the congress will be polarized, and we’ll be in a position to fight.

I’ll vote Republican on the rest of the ticket, but NEVER for McCain. Unless, as I’ve said elsewhere, he chooses Fred as VP and is looking particularly old and ill in November.

[Lucky9teen]

Ugh...I just threw up in my mouth a little....

[BunnySlippers]

I detest McCain but agree that we have to get behind him.

Obama for 8 years, the healthcare system he will impose and the Supremes he will appoint would be a disaster!

I’ll vote for McCain ... without enthusiasm.

[JustaDumbBlonde]

"The time for divisive talk about how much you hate McCain for screwing the conservatives and how he is a RINO and his other faults is over. WE are doing NO ONE any good by continuing to publicly air our grievances about him. I know, I have done my share.

So ... since you have gotten all of your grievances out of the way ... it's time for everybody to shut it and vote the ticket regardless??? Surely there was another pro-McCain thread to which you could have added this little nugget.

Twelve hundred vanities down, a hundred thousand to go, it would appear.

[MeanWestTexan]

Nuts.

[dragnet2]

Get over it.

The new Republican campaign slogan?

[webschooner]

No No No No No No No No No
Never Never Never Never Never
to Juan McLamez

[webschooner]

No No No No No No No No No
Never Never Never Never Never
to Juan McLamez

[Tarpon]

Best I can tell we get three choices. Fascism, Fascism lite and Stalinism. Not sure who is for what, but that’s the field.

Not going to vote for the jailer.

[Dreagon]

I wonder if McCain is going to pardon Compean and Ramos?
I wonder if McCain will apologize to social conservatives for calling them “agents of intolerance”.

[org.whodat]

We KNOW that there will be nothing but pure amnesty and absolutely no border enforcement if a 'Rat gets the WH.

WE know the same thing will happen with MCCain. So in short, NO Sale, Mclame can stick it.

[Gaffer]

The 'road to ruin' is a long one of convoluted, exigent explanations and settling for the least inconvenient alternative. A little relaxing of princples here, more there, and there you have it - full-blown surrender of your basic (conservative) principles for the sake of fear and not knowing what the future holds.

Do you honestly believe the people who endured weeks, months of squalor, filth and harsh conditions coming to this country in rickety-assed ships thought about what's the most expedient alternative they had (we have now)? I don't think so. To accept this poser you say we must now vote for to avoid something worse is against all I (and, I hope many others) believe.

Not even! Not for a minute! Not Freakin' EVER!

[Caipirabob]

Time to Stop griping about McCain and start working to defeat the 'Rats

Sorry, but I don't subscribe to anyone telling me how to vote. It's really none of the business of some idiot Washington pundit if I never have any intention to vote for John McCain.

I think it's pretty infantile to hear all of the pundits get all scared when they realize they've picked a loser, then start trying to justify their idiocy by mindless tirades about how McCain's a conservative and can beat Obama. He can't. We know his record. It's not acceptable.

I don't see any conservatives rallying to McCain's camp. Frankly, I'm considering any alternative. Maybe we need a political apocalypse to set people straight on what conservatives are willing to tolerate within their own party. Don't really care if it takes four year to get the message through. They can't do it without us, and they need us more than we need them.

Unless they're just a great lot of socialists anyways, in which case, what's the difference if we support McCain or not?

So, good luck with your guy. He's not my lead weight to carry.

[PeterFinn]

Bite me. I'm not voting for McCain today, tomorrow, or ever.

See, I tend to look at things asymmetrically.

A McCain presidency would be bad for the GOP as near to half the party would never be behind him. That would cause a 'downticket' effect in 2008 and 2010 as conservatives failed to turnout to vote in Congressional races and in state representative races. McCain and his followers can bitch, cry, moan, and complain all they want, but core conservatives will not support him unless he clearly addresses their concerns - even then, most of us would have good cause to doubt his sincerity.

A Clinton or Obama presidency would galvanize the GOP base in 2010 to more than likely take back control of Congress and possibly insure a GOP victory in the Presidential race of 2012 and probably insure a GOP Congress and White House in 2016.

In this case, I'd rather see a Dem win this fall than McCain.

Of course, if Huckabee (or even Ronald McDonald) got the GOP nod over McCain then I'd vote Republican.

[SwankyC]

So if we stop talking about McCain, what's left?

McCain for dog catcher!

[Drago]

Like “Cripplecreek” my family will be voting conservative, sadly that does not include McCain.