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br> -- Michael Tomlinson br> Jacksonville, North Carolina /p>

Look, folks, McCain wasn't my choice either. Thanks to Indiana's late primary date (May), I've had absolutely no say in the Republican Party's candidate choice. OK. We get it. McCain makes mud bricks rather than parting the waters. We will not be presenting the country with a clear conservative alternative to Hillary/Obama's mixture of Pluto water and snake oil. We get it.

Nevertheless, we should all heed W.F. Buckley's standard advice: "Always vote for the rightward most viable candidate." That this formula forces us to vote for a liberal centrist over a leftwing radical in some cases is a bitter pill; but it makes sense in choosing the bad over the worse.

In McCain, we have a man far from the conservative ideal. Hillary Eugene Debbs and Obama A. Hiss, however, make no pretensions in being conservative at all.

p>In 2006, many of us refused to support dozens of Republican officeholders on Election Day for the purpose of "sending a message" to the smug party leadership. What happened was the newly Democrat house and senate sent their own "message" back to us instead -- with a vengeance. Make no mistake what a Democrat White House will have in store for us. br> -- Mike Dooley br> Indianapolis, Indiana /p> p> Glad to finally see the awe-struck Conservatives finally take a swing at bloviating Liberal hot-air merchant Barack Obama. After years of bemoaning a possible Hillary candidacy, Republicans have sleepwalked into a disastrous situation where a McGovern-type ultra-Liberal will most probably capture the Presidency. Jennifer Rubin is close when she characterizes Obama as a McGovern-type Liberal, but in 2008 this election is looking more like 1976 when the hapless Carter began his malaise. While Republicans and Conservatives have been choking on their bile regarding Hillary Clinton, they have been hoodwinked by Senator Obama, the National Journal 's Most Liberal Senator of 2007. Even Conservative Joe Scarborough has confessed to shivers down his spine when the airy Obama speaks. I too get shivers down my spine, but mainly from the scary, but now almost inevitable prospect of an Obama Presidency due to the incompetence of Republican's regarding the budget, New Orleans and missteps in Iraq.

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