[...] Having not been a supporter from the outset, perhaps my endorsement of John McCain will carry more weight among conservatives who are still undecided about whether to vote for John McCain. [...]

[...] Furthermore, given the strong possibility of a Democratic House, a Democratic Senate and a liberal Supreme Court for decades to come, given the number of Supreme Court appointments a Democratic president will be able to make, an Obama victory will move America more radically leftward than ever in its history.

That is why the argument that an Obama administration will be so destructive that Americans will reject the left and then elect a real conservative to undo the damage done in an Obama presidency is deeply flawed. [...]

[...] Moreover, the argument that Americans will have a conservative epiphany after four years of an Obama presidency is predicated on America being greatly damaged by his policies. What kind of mindset welcomes such damage to the country it loves for the sake of potentially gaining politically after the damage is done? Is it, for example, really worth a considerably weakened economy (which Barack Obama's tax and other economic policies would likely lead to), with its widespread suffering and unforeseeable social and political consequences, just to - hopefully - get a conservative into the White House four or eight years later? [...]

[...] Therefore, as well-meaning and sincere as many conservatives are, this mode of thinking - let the country suffer under a left-wing president, Congress and Supreme Court and then it will come to its conservative senses - will likely lead to a downward spiral from which it is hard to see the country escaping for a generation, if it is lucky. [...]

[...] However noble their intentions, conservatives who do not vote for John McCain will be morally complicit in what happens to America during an Obama presidency. [END]