The Black Republican

I'm sorry will not be enough. I am withholding final judgment until McCain announces his choice for VP. At that moment I will know what I am voting for come November.

My point is that I don't know any conservative he could pick for VP that would make me feel differently. I don't know anything else at all that would make me feel differently, other than him admitting that he's been a butthead. Because (as I've said before) the one thing that bothers me most - the same thing I'd wager that most people who now oppose him feel, underneath all his faulty positions - is that he thinks more of himself and his own opinions than anything else in the world. His defeat in 2000 has made him a bitter, shallow, and desperate man.

I wasn't a huge fan of Mitt Romney, even when I voted for him, when it was apparent he was the only thing standing between McCain and his clear claim to the nomination. Yet Romney did the one thing McCain won't do now: sacrifice his own ego for the needs of his country. That fact was stark as I watched each of their speeches on Thursday at CPAC.

It's a sad commentary on someone who claims benefit from a military background, that McCain's apparently lost sight of that basic military principle.

We don't disagree about McCain's ego getting the best of him. My problem with an apology is that I do not believe that it would be sincere. I do not trust the man. In the spirit of President Reagan's maxim of trust, but verify, I need to see a more concrete action from him. I have read others say that picking a Black man for VP would be seen as tokenism. I believe McCain needs a Southerner to shore up the South. While not exactly southern, I would be thrilled to see J.C.Watts chosen.

I think we just differ when exactly things should happen. I also don't want an insincere apology, so I won't trust one without further action backing it up. But I sure can't accept an apology that's never given. I don't expect him to pick a VP before the convention, but every day he holds that fat ego over my head is another brick in the wall between me and the lever with his name on it.

McCain is going to seriously concern himself about conservative causes and principles when Bill Clinton enters the seminary

Probing a cavity, my ancient wizened backside, y'all. I am absolutely, four-square, 2,000% opposed to the very SOB whom I *MUST* support if the GOP is to win this November.

Work with me here, we're talking Medieval Dread and generous helpings of night-sweats and Tourettes Syndrome. I see McCain's face and launch into Hydraulic Snivel. And yet in November I am sure I will have to vote for him, to keep a different socialist out of the White House.

With genuine respect to evangelicals, I contend Huckabee is unelectable and yet will still have a powerful say in whomever McCain chooses as VP. But anyone who's ever seen Johnny-boy in action also knows his double-crosses come on greased rails and they hit like a shell from the U.S.S. New Jersey.

There is the stink of George Soros all over the GOP side of this campaign, with McCain advisers working for Soros-backed think tanks (and the like). McCain enabled Soros to even get set up, in one such case.

Soros is also funneling money to every hard-left cause on this planet. The night sweats kick in wondering how McCain can convince conservatives that he's as independent as he claims. Ted Sampley's guys with the Vietnam Veterans Against John McCain certainly think it can't be done.

My question to you is, what other choice is there? A third party can't win and a hateful slate on BOTH sides only sours the electorate even more. We keep getting such bad candidates that we run the danger of not showing up at all.

Isn't that when the real fanatics, who do, actually win?