McCain - and anyone else with half a brain - knows that conservatives have no other place to go in the general election . AND McCain knows that conservatives know that a vote for anyone but McCain in the general is a vote for Hillary or Obama. McCain is, no doubt, praying the Democrats nominate Hillary, the one person in politics today who can reunite the Republican coalition.

Conservatives have been used, no doubt. But they haven't helped themselves much by their adamant refusal to deal with McCain when they were needed. Now they aren't needed, and they have no claim on anything

Both parties will be torn in half this year.

I am a loyal Reagan Conservative. However, I know that McCain is a lying sack of liberal cow dung, but I will have to vote for him, should he become the nominee. Hillary and/or Obama in the House scares me more.

As an American I am sick. I don't mean upset, I mean physically ill. We are the greatest nation in the world, and these three idiots are the "best" that we have to offer?

The RNC can save a stamp....Never ask for money again.

RR

What is it about HRC that scares you? Ann Coulter considers her to be more conservative than McCain.

And frankly, calling HRC an idiot is more than a bit out of touch. If anything, Clinton is too bright for her own good.

C'mon. Name one issue on which Clinton is to the right of McCain. McCain is a moderate conservative and that drives Coulter, Limbaugh, etc. nuts.

Tell me other than skin color and sex, how does McCain differ from Obama or Hillary?

There policies are almost identical.... So the choice for conservatives is not to participate. And assuming that McCain wins, I will not support the GOP.

What has made McCain all of a sudden a moderate or a conservative? His voting record and history suggest flamming liberal.

I'm a Reagan Conservative as well. But I will vote for Obama before I'll vote for a lying sack of liberal cow dung! We don't need anyone in the white house who we cannot trust. McCain like Clinton wan'ts power and Obama like Romney shows at least he cares about the nation.

Reagan is dead. Let him have his rest.

Reagan would be happier to be where he is now, than to have to watch what is now going on within his party.

One source you might consider would be the American Conservative Union (<link>) which gives McCain a lifetime rating of 83, compared to Clinton's 9 and Obama's 8.

But don't let me (or more objective evidence) stand in your way from boycotting the general election. I just wish all disaffected conservatives would follow suit.

Listen to Ann Coulter's case. There are issues that HRC is more liberal than McCain on. But there are others where she is more moderate/conservative

Why?

This is pretty much what Reagan stood for.

• anti-gay
• anti-choice
• anti-poor
• pro-invasion
• pro-wealthy

Perhaps Reagan would be dissappointed that the spin isn't getting traction anymore, but on the substance he's right there with the current GOP

I'm not sure Reagan would have been "pro-invasion". (I'm assuming you're meaning Iraq.) He had a bunch of realpolitoc cold warriors advising him, not star-eyed neocons, and we limited our invasions to tiny places like Grenada.

Reagan liked invading places that he was told were "easy".

And that's what was told to us about Iraq.

enough of this Reagan crap. Reagan wasn't a Reagan conservative. As was pointed out in the debate, he offered amnesty to illegal immigrants. Romney even went so far as to say that Reagan would repudiate his own actions and claim Mea Culpa, putting words into the Presidents mouth. And the Soviet Union collapsed more from the inside than the outside. Reagan can't stand up to the myth of reagan, stop spouting it.