McCain isn’t a tax-cutter, it’s true. He’s a budget hawk. Is the idea of a balanced budget really such an awful thing that the GOP can’t get behind it? McCain doesn’t think that either bald eagles or illegal immigrants should be hunted for sport, but that doesn’t mean that he would either open the borders or tear down our industries. McCain is a hawk on the Iraq war, terrorism, and keeping Iran non-nuclear and under control.

No, he’s not my first choice, either. That happens in politics sometimes. But I’ll vote for him because he’s the best available choice.

But Quick’s comment is the really absurd one here. “Barbarians at the Gates”? Isn’t that the title of Kos’ book? Does any of us actually believe that Kos’ crew should be running the Democratic party? I mean, it would be wonderful for the GOP, but nobody thinks it would be great for the Democrats.

But somehow when it’s the Righty Blogosphere it’s different? Hey, I used to believe that, but that belief is being sorely tested by the tantrums going on for the last several weeks by the electronic wing. I mean, Rush is telling people that Obama would be just as good on Iraq as McCain. How delusional is that?

Hoover won the nomination with 98% of the delegates, but it would be nearly 20 years before republicans regained the WH and 60 years before the House was regained.

Start rebuilding now, all ye of conservative hope.

By the time moderates discover the damage they have done, (assuming McCain wins) it will be too late. McCain will destroy party credibility on a range of issues getting the Republican party tossed out of power for years.

Under any of these thre guys,there likely will be be:

• A nuclear Iran
• Possibly another terrorist strike on American Soil; definitely greater and more empowered Islamofascist terrorism.
• Much higher oil prices, more than double our inflated prices now.
• A collapsing dollar
• Higher taxes, lapsing of the 2003 cuts, new increases on the way including a 50 cent a gallon carbon tax.
• Some form of Universal Health Care
• Much greater environmental regulations - more than sufficient to strangle the economy.
• Some form of confiscation of oil, pharmaceutical and insurance industry profits.
• And as a result of all of the above - a massive recession.

Now do we as conservatives want to be apart of all the above? I don’t think so. And we can’t stop it even if we wanted too- which we do.

McCain cannot and will not win. The media will turn on him and absolutely destroy him as soon as he clinches the nomination. All of a sudden we will see stories of the Keating 5, McCain tirades, stuff on his age, his intolerance, his dumb, pandering poorly thought out positions, etc, etc, etc. His squishy moderate and independent support will vanish in a heartbeat. And he will not have Talk Radio or the Blogs wathcing his back to defend him. It will be ugly.

The really sad part is that not only will the conservative base not volunteer for him, nor donate; they probably won’t turn out on election day dooming a lot of good Republicans. The next Democrat President as a result, probably will have his or her way with Congress for at least the next two years.

McCain will thus become the biggest loser in modern political presidential history. It will be a complete wipeout. The Republican Party will wish he did as well as Dole or Ford.

The only positive thing I can say is that the end of the long march into the wilderness, after the carnage of the next Democrat in the White House, hopefully will be only two years away - until the 2010 Congressional elections. The US will then really need the conservatives to put the Country back togather again.

I myself would vote for Ghidra the Three-Headed Monster before accepting the specter of at least another four more years of a Clinton Blight House.