I have no intention of sitting out the fall election.  If conservatives are honest, they must admit that McCain on his bad day is better than Obama or Clinton on their best.  Sure, I'm disappointed that neither Thompson or Romney made it.  But I am an optimist and will soldier on.

George Neumayr does make a number of salient points in The American Spectator:

"Bush Sr., Dole, Bush Jr., McCain: Where's the substantive difference? They are all intellectually lame Republicans, with little to no interest in conservative political and moral philosophy."

and:

"McCain is exactly what a GOP that treats the natural moral law as negotiable deserves. The natural law is the philosophical core of conservatism. Any party that abandons or downplays it becomes just another species of liberalism. Most "conservative" positions today are little more than the liberal positions of yesteryear, from Bill Clinton's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy to No Child Left Behind -- a PC conservatism that Mitt Romney and McCain perfectly embody."

and:

"If McCain isn't sitting on a three-legged stool, that's because GOP activists threw it away a long time ago. They set up in its place a Big Tent and McCain crawled into it. Their whining is a generation too late."

Always work to do.

Thanks, Laura.