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/p> p> RALLYING PALIN br> Re: Philip Klein's Grand United Party : /p>

While McLame may have united the delegates to the convention, he certainly has not united the party. There are still those of us who have not forgotten that he has spat in the faces of conservatives for over 20 years. Spit in my face once and you make me angry. Spit in my face a second time and we're likely to have fisticuffs. Spit in my face ten or twelve times over a long period of time and there is likely nothing that you can ever do to win back my trust -- ever.

Like most conservatives, I was and am energized by the selection of Sarah Palin as the Vice Presidential candidate. However, that is akin to pouring a very nice cologne on a rotting corpse. It will mask the stench of having to vote for McLame, but it won't eliminate it.

Do not ever forget that if elected, McLame will still be pushing for a cap-and-trade system which will wreck the economy, in order to fight a global warming hoax that doesn't exist. He will still be pushing for Shamnesty for illegal aliens, which will forever alter the culture of this country. As for strict constructionist justices and judges, it is my firm belief that is a pipe dream. The President can only nominate, he does not appoint. And there is nothing in McLame's background that would indicate that he would fight a Democrat Party dominated Senate Judiciary committee over truly conservative justices or judges. No, what I see coming there, based on history, are "compromise" candidates, in the style of Anthony Kennedy.

p>I would crawl across acres of broken glass to vote against The Obamessiah, but that has nothing to do with a "united" Republican Party. br> -- Keith Kunzler /p>

I could not agree more with Mr. Klein's assessment of the McCain campaign and the Republican Party, as things stand today. Like many of the TAS family, I have been a harsh critic of McCain over these many years. I still disagree strongly with many of his actions in the Senate; we all know the litany by heart. It was only after the Democrat convention that I resigned myself to the fact that I could not sit this presidential election out, and that I would vote for McCain after all. My spirits were indeed low. My decision was really a function of voting against the very dangerous, inexperienced, and radical leftist team of Obama and Biden. But as many fellow readers at TAS have stated, voting against an ideology or a candidate is not sufficient enough reason, there needs to be more, much more. So I thought this election was now Obama's to lose.

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