Mc CAIN AND FLEETWOOD MAC....

Contributed by FPM Mike, who humbles me with his mind. (and he has great taste in music, too)

Did she make you cry?

Make you break down?

Shatter your illusions of love?

Is it over now, do you know how,

to pickup the pieces and go home? -Fleetwood Mac

I did my duty yesterday. As any conservative who really "gets" conservatism did, I voted for Romney. Some of the rest of you screwed the pooch. The conservative base was split between Mitt Romney and the Republican version of "slick Willie", Mike Huckabee. McCain has won by default. I can't change it, nether can you. So now its time to consider the stakes. I'm a numbers cruncher by temperament.

It's undeniable that Democrats will pick up large gains in both the House and Senate. In fact, the Dems will probably have the 60 seats in the Senate they need to thwart a Republican filibuster and can can pass their "reforms" unimpeded. So what does that mean? It means that the only thing in between some of the worst legislation in modern times and socialist doom is the President's veto pen. And that means John McCain. So now we have to join McCain's mother in holding our noses and support McCain in a BIG WAY. The only alternative is Hillary or Obama rubber stamping so many Democrat bills it will make your conservative eyes run with tears. I don't like McCain anymore than the rest of you. But reality is what it is.

The American Conservative Union rates all legislators (Rep & Dem) voting records on a scale of 0-100 in their support of conservative ideals. It's an excellent barometer of legislative support of conservative values. McCain has a lifetime voting record of 83, which is not all that shabby. Many Republicans do much worse. True, McCain isn't Barry Goldwater. But he's not quite as bad as portrayed lately either. And he's all we have between the Democrat Mongol Hordes in Congress and us. Them's the facts. So do your duty, keep a stiff upper lip and do what you have to do to keep Hillary and Obama out of office. That is all.

Dismissed. Mike........ (Thanks, Mike...it's an honor to have you here at geeZ! Z)

Allow Z to add a quote which sums up that "I won't vote for McCain...let Hillary or Obama win!" mantra we're hearing from Conservatives:

"To avoid situations in which you might make a mistake may be the biggest mistake of all" *Peter McWilliams.

"Don't stop thinking about tomorrow..........."

*Libertarian and romantic poet who wrote the wonderful "Come be with me and be my life.." some of us swoon over. Mr. McWilliams, a soldier in the war for medical marijuana died of AIDS at the age of 50 in Los Angeles, California in 2000.