Blatant Reality

As you may know, I was formally a Mike Huckabee supporter. Once he dropped out, I urged my fellow Huckabee followers to switch over to John McCain, the presumptive nominee by that time, because the alternative was far worse.

Many conservatives, including myself, were not that happy with our candidate, but for the good of the party many of us fell in line. At this time, McCain wasn’t sounding too bad. It seemed, though not many of us believed it, that he might actually turn out to be more conservative than we all thought. However, this brief bit of hope was soon lost.

With McCain now beginning to fall back into his old ways, many conservatives are beginning to lose hope. John Hawkins, who helped convince me to vote McCain, has now lost complete faith in McCain and has confessed that he will not be voting for him in November.

So does this recent information affect who I am going to be voting for in November? The answer is I just don’t know. Does that mean I will be voting for Obama or Hillary or both? Absolutely not. Will I abstain from voting? I couldn’t in clear conscious not vote since it is one of our most important liberties.

Where does this leave me then? Well, I think it leaves me in quite the pickle. If I vote for McCain, I really won’t be able to do that with a clear conscience. Sure he is a heck of a lot better then the Democratic candidates but he definitely isn’t a conservative.

The only thing left for me to do would be to vote for an independent conservative candidate. The only problem with that is I know full and well that I will be basically helping the Democrats win the White House. I, like most conservatives, really don’t like helping them win and would prefer to hinder them at all possible.

So basically anything I do this November is going to be against my conscious. It’s one of those “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” kind of deals. Once again, it seems that my only option would be to pick the lesser of the evils and you know what that will probably be? Vote McCain.

He still has a little over 5 months to prove to conservatives he can still be our candidate. Lets hope he doesn’t squander that time by pandering to the other side.