I am starting this blog because I have strong feelings about the current Presidential Election Campaign,

and an intense need to put my thoughts in writing.

 

  As of todays date, it appears almost a certainty that John McCain will secure the Republican nomination for President

(unless he self destructs between now and this coming Tuesday).  Although I have strong differences with Senator McCain

as regards immigration / amnesty, I supported his candidacy in 2000 and will support him again this time around. He would

not be my first choice (Mike Huckabee would be, but I dont believe he is electable) but Senator McCain is obvioulsy a man of

principles and integrity,and that is, at least, refreshing. That he is alsothe only one of those contending who has actually shed his

own blood for his country is also worthy of my respect and admiration.

 

  What troubles me.as a Conservative, in the contest now unfolding isn't that my first choice (Gov. Huckabee) is not a viable candidate. Politics, particularly

democratic (small "d") politics is,after all, all about compromise. Instead, What I am absolutely amazed (and repulsed) at is the level of

insanity John McCains impending convention victory has caused among the self-proclaimed "leaders" of my party.

 

  Rush Limbaugh (whom Paul Begala once aptly described as a "drug-addled blow-hard") Sean Hannity,Laura Ingrahm and

now Ann Coulter have apparently finally lost their already-shaky grip on reality. Coulter today said that not only would she vote for Senator Clinton

if McCain won the nomination, but that she would campaign for Clinton. Rush said he'd prefer Clinton, because he thought the country

was in trouble either way, and at least then "the Democrats would get the blame".

 

  To listen to these established "Beacons of Conservatism", you would think Senator McCain was channeling Lyndon Johnson instead of Ronald Reagan.

 Their attacks completely discount McCains 27 year record of championing small government federalism, national defense, the sanctity of life and real,

 honest-to-goodness Reagan Conservatism.

 

  Instead they lambast McCain for every prinicipled stance he took that was not in direct support of this  President. Their blind allegiance to

an administration that has wrecked the party and the country and  prostituted the very principles Reagan embodied, can only be a product of their

rampant egos or ideological corruption.

 

  I am a Republican and a Conservative. Mitt Romney is neither. I will not have my affiliations defined by drug addled blowhards and I

will be voting for Senator McCain.