Thank you. Let me answer your second question first. I don't see a benefit in sitting out the election. Participation, instead of non-participation, is the goal. I advocate that everyone should go to their polling place and vote our conscience, based on all the information we have learned during the debates we have been watching and participating in.

The alternatives we need to be considering are proactive strategies such as cultivating and supporting state and local Conservative politicians.

The strategy I advocate for the long term, is to teach Conservatism, and especially how to think about policies and issues from a Conservative standpoint. For example, to think through to the results of policies, rather than to stop thinking as soon as the intentions of policies make us feel good.

The good thing about teaching is that every participant can have a positive affect in their own sphere. Teach the kids, talk to the neighbors. Recommend radio shows, books, and blogs. These are the things that interest, influence, and convert people.

You're right on all counts. Now, having said that, what do you see as our alternatives? What benefit do you see from sitting this one out?

Aside from the McCain-Feingold disaster (which Coburn gave him a pass on Thursday, because apparently "his intentions were good with that bill"), he has continuously spit on conservative principles by opposing tax cuts, by shamelessly promoting amnesty for illegals and calling those of us who oppose it "racist," by working to destroy gun shows in America (and conveniently forgetting to mention that little factoid while touting his own 2A credentials, and he opposes drilling in Alaska.

I realize he's better on spending and on the War on Terror than Obama or Hillary will be, but anyone who lies so blatantly about his conservative record doesn't deserve the conservative vote.

Entrenched incumbent politicians were apparently getting weary of harassing "issue ads" that were issued close enough to elections to influence their outcome.

John McCain and His Friend Russell Feingold are two men out of three hundred million Americans, each with a unique point of view. And yet, when a few people with a common point of view managed to organize and create a broadcast ad in order to communicate with voters, these two incumbent politicians decided that this nuisance must come to an end.

They came up with a clever way of cloaking their real agenda, which is to SHUT YOU UP, and that was to disguise it as reform, supposedly to eliminate the nebulous evil known as "soft money".

The First Amendment was created to prohibit the people in government from stepping on our necks if we ever dared to criticize them. This is the first legislation in our history that has been successful in cracking the wall of that protection.

Every citizen in this country may find themselves, someday, caring about an issue enough to organize with other passionate advocates, and might consider running a television ad a month or so before an election in order to communicate their message. But thanks to McCain/Feingold, they will be silenced. Mosquitos, you have been swatted away from the precious politicians!

I don't need to read the rest of the list to be persuaded that John McCain is disqualified from the Presidency. I believe he should be disgraced and shunned for this stunt alone. The rest of the list just adds "appalling" to "horrifying".

So there's no "purity" test. John McCain forfeited his claim to the support of Americans in 2002 by striking a blow at our freedom of speech. And I did not say "Conservative Americans" or "Republican Americans". I mean All Americans, regardess of ideology.

Nowhere, and I mean nowhere, will you find where I have called McCain "evil" or anything close to it. What we ahve said, and I believe I've proven it, is that he is not anywhere close to being a conservative and trying to say differently is fantasy.