Forget about “hold your nose and vote for McCain”. No, sorry, so long as the Republican Party is led by politicians who do not stand for Republican principles, I will have no part of “hold my nose and vote for the so-called Republican”.

Even on the pragmatic issue of what policies will be adopted in the next four years, in many ways we would be worse under McCain. McCain just might be able to get immigration anarchy legislation (normally pitched under its code phrase “comprehensive immigration reform”) passed; it is far more likely that there will be no such legislation if Obama is President.

Pelosi wanted the political cover of 60 House Republicans supporting anarchy before she would push it last year. She clearly didn't get them and probably would be lucky to have gotten 6-12.

Of course, she needed 60 not only for political cover but also because there are 50-60 blue dog Democrats in the House that do not support the anarchy legislation. Pelosi flat out NEEDS Republican votes even to pass the excremental bill.

Furthermore, with Obama in the White House, the Democrats no longer have a Republican dupe as President who will sign on to anarchy, allowing the Democrats to blame the ensuing anarchy (surprise!) on the Republical fool in the White House who signed it.

No Republican fool in the White House, no “comprehensive immigration reform”. That is not an ironclad fact but it is very likely to prove true.

And as people have pointed out, McCain's reputation as a “maverick” is due to his past schmoozing with the establishment left media like the New York Times, as well as engaging in “bipartisan” cooperation with the most left wing members of the Senate to try to enact noxious legislation on a host of issues.

And as someone pointed out his maverick image may also be somewhat due to his well-earned reputation as a back-stabber. And by that I do not mean someone who respectfully pursues policies on which he honestly differs with his colleagues, but rather that he has a long history of behaving in a gratuitiously belligerent and unprofessional manner toward his Senate colleagues.

Is there anything good I can say about McCain? The only thing I can think of is the fact that he is going to lose and the fact that he will become a pariah among his colleagues and those who have far more wisdom and honor in politics than he will, God willing, replace the crackpots currently running the Republican Party, and redirect it toward a constructive role in serving our nation and its people

I pray that I am dead wrong about Obama, and that he might have a successful presidency both domestically and on the world stage, but I have a nagging feeling that I'll soon be saying “I told you so” to a lot of people. I am in a state of shock that this truly unqualified person – less qualified by any objective measure that any president in the past 100 years (and that's when I stopped looking) – stands on the threshold of the White House. God, help us all – please. Especially help Obama to effectively govern our nation, because he will require your help more than any person occupying the Oval Office has needed it since Lincoln!

Senator Mc Cain has compromised everything he said he believed in and lost my support. Fiscal conservative, NO. We have a 10 trillion deficit more spending than revenue. He does not want to cut social security or defense and not raise tax's, fiscal conservative hardly. Impossible to reduce the deficit and the annual interest payments with the status quo. When the President has anything to do with abortion then we have given up states rights, I thought conservatives were for that. Anti- global warming,

I am confused because it appears to me Senator Mc Cain has done little within the Senate other than yell about earmarks which represents less than 1% of federal spending and .003 of 1 % of the federal deficit. As Senator Moynhainn used to say, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, not facts

It has been remarkable that many Republicans stayed on the SS Bush for as long as they have, it showed a lack of vision and backbone. The going along with the village idiot for the past 6 years that has been their shortfall and we are all paying the price.

Those that are losing their seats are going home. Many people no longer have a home to go to.

But what astounded me was many of the same folks that justifiably criticized Obama for being an attractive, but empty suit were immediately and dramatically swayed by Sarah Palin — even though they knew precious little about her. They never bothered to ask the question, “who is Sarah Palin?” That to me exposed a level of hypocrisy in their train of thought.

Worse, it exposed an even more serious level of hypocrisy in McCain's train of thought. For months he had been building his campaign around the experience issue. He was the one that would be ready on Day 1. He vowed he would pick a VP that would be similarly qualified. Then he picks Palin. It's hard to imagine he didn't realize many people would find it a bit of a contradiction. So you'd think his campaign would have prepared themselves — and her — for the questions. Everyone wanted to know, “who is Sarah Palin?” Unfortunately, that question has become more inscrutable over time rather than less. I don't blame her. She is who she is. I blame McCain. Maybe it's just the acuity that comes from hindsight, but it seems to me that if she was on his short list he should have had a team up in Alaska making sure she was ready months before rolling her out, not after. At any rate, what actually happened was pitiful. She took a lot of heat for some awfully ridiculous reasons. But more than a little of the heat was justified. And the way they handled her enhanced the impression she was unqualified. After carefully constructing the experience argument for months, they took it completely off the table — and in the process it put into question McCain's judgment. All of a sudden he was seen as erratic.

I will admit that at first I liked Palin, the attractive woman, mother of five, and excellent public speaker that showed up at the RNC. With time, I have to admit that she needs more seasoning. My support of Sen. McCain for President is on ideological grounds, reasons that are historic and unrelated to the distortions that campaigning always brings. Someone who is: 1) anti-abortion; 2) anti-global warming; 3) pro-immigration, and 4) fiscally conservative fits my own positions very well. He has my support on Tuesday.

I think the real lesson is that being a maverick really means that you are irratic. That means who cannot run a campaign on issues because the candidate will have taken different positions on the same issue at different times. See McCain's inability to talk about immigration as an example or inability to talk about big government where he support the goverment regulation of speech.

What most of the those who have endorsed Obama realize is that there are future jobs to hand out and that the Republican Party has no future, why not endorse Obama and stick a knife into the chest of McCAin.