I’ll stop posting these soon, but one more:

While I likely agree with your recent emailer that McCain is better than a host of Democrats who could end up winning in ‘08, and I might very well come to regret a vote against McCain should he be the Republican nominee…I’m just not sure that’s reason enough NOT to vote against him. Those of us in the I’ll Never Cast a Vote for McCain crowd are really just getting tired of getting shot at by our own side. I can live with the Democrats doing the opposite of what I believe when they hold office…but when it’s my side? Much harder to stomach. I think I’d rather fight with the other guys for a while. It’s not that I (or many other conservatives, I suspect) actually thinks that one of those Ds would be “better than McCain.” It’s more that I’m not sure how much longer the Republican party can tolerate fighting with itself — and four years of McCain at the helm would be a lot of internal fighting and a lot of the Republican party moving even farther away from the party many of us want it to be. I shudder to think of a Democrat president nominating the next 2 or 3 supreme court justices, but, really, I shudder to think about McCain doing that too. I shudder in a “Harriet Myers”kind of way. His respect for the Constitution is evident in McCain-Feingold, is it not? And, bottom line, I just can’t and won’t vote for him. Come what may… Oh, and to your emailer — calling me stupid isn’t an argument, or even a useful point. Just a little taste of the fighting with “our” side, I would hope to avoid. And the option isn’t actually McCain or John Kerry. Or McCain or Hillary Clinton (God help me). Those are the dichotomies that may exist IF McCain makes it through the primaries…here’s hoping he doesn’t.