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Mr. Lord is correct, "...conservatism and conservatives will sail on with -- or without -- McCain in the White House. Conservatives can help him get there." His article, as always is insightful and thoughtful, but there are too many unknowns that appear to have indicators as to what will really happen. Could the Senator effectively 'hire' his rivals, sure, will he? Ha, I sure don't think the evidence supports that conclusion. But if he gets the nomination and actually wins the race we will find out who he selects. Personally I wouldn't trust him to do it even if he said he would, I'd have to see it actually happen. Does anyone really believe he's committed to border enforcement first at this time? Hell, he doesn't believe it from listening to him.

We ALL know Republican Senators and Congressmen don't have the ability to regularly stand up for conservative principles and carry through with them. Having a Republican President McCain as head of the party and continuing to propound his less than conservative ideas in regard to Guantanamo, immigration, manmade climate change, freedom of speech, drilling for our own oil, et al, would be a further disaster for the Republican Party as we know it today. Those weak kneed Senators and Congressmen would rightly be predisposed to helping their President get the legislation and direction he wanted. All that would happen is an acceleration of the party's leftward march because there would be so little, if any, effective conservative opposition. At least with an admitted liberal or Democrat as POTUS the very same weak kneed Republicans would understand and carry out their necessary "loyal opposition" more often and with better effect I believe.

p>I don't believe I am alone in never voting for a Democrat in a general election but I never vote for just any and certainly not all "Republicans." So it may be in 2008. Perhaps Senator Dole, Speaker Gingrich, Senator Gramm and Governor Schwarzenegger will prove to be right and they can fashion a win with enough center and left center votes to make up for voters like me. If so, I'll be in the first wave of those to admit once again I am not apparently main-stream for this party, but I suspect without my vote, and others of like mind Senator McCain can't do it in November any better than Senator Dole did, and the sad thing for the Senator is that nothing he says at CPAC will extract my vote for him. br> -- Roger Ross /p>

Jeffrey Lord writes an excellent article which states my position on McCain exactly. I am not a Republican, I am a conservative. I will remain a conservative and remain true to conservative principles whether or not McCain is nominated by the Republican Party.

I won't vote for him and I won't support him. What he says to the C-PAC meeting is irrelevant. I'm confident he will stand up and espouse his "Regan Revolution foot-soldierism" and point to all the ways he is conservative. To all that, I say, "Well, John, you can call yourself a rutabaga, too. That doesn't make you one."

John McCain has spent his entire political career slapping conservatives in the face, calling those who espouse conservative ideas racists, bigots and worse and doing everything in his power to subvert conservative principles. I will not reward those 30 years of mischief by voting for this clown.

p>Certainly I cannot vote for either the Marxist Clinton or the Marxist Obama. I will simply stay away from the polls on Election Day while muttering, "a pox on both your houses." br> -- Keith Kunzler /p>

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