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Senator John McCain is now the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party for the Presidential race this November. To some of you, that sentence is possibly the worst news you could hear. However, I have some worse news----if you don't support McCain, you'll end up with Sen. Clinton or Sen. Obama in the White House.

Some conservatives out there (and I consider myself conservative) have stated that there is no way they can vote for John McCain. Ann Coulter, forever the mother of shocking statements, even went so far as to say she would campaign for Hillary if McCain is the nominee. Rush Limbaugh claims that a McCain nomination will mark the end of the party. James Dobson, head of Focus on the Family, has spoken out against McCain to his millions of listeners as well. These three only represent the tip of the conservative iceberg parked straight ahead of our Captain.

I believe this divisiveness is less about McCain and more about who owns the hearts and minds of Republicans. Is it talk radio? Evidently, not. 90% of the self-styled conservatives on the dial are against McCain because, I believe, he has never kissed their collective asses. Yes, he has taken liberal stands on important issues such as immigration and campaign finance reform; these are worthy of discussion. But I believe this is mostly a front, especially by Limbaugh, to cover up the fact that he can't steer the party one way or another as he thought he could. He is, in the end, just another talking head with an opinion. I've been on the radio---it's not a tough gig. I'm not taking anything away from any commentator's success, but I believe the McCain advance has deflated what were once enormous egos. And the truth hurts.

So, what are conservatives going to do? As I've said here before, I am going to run to vote for him in November. Mitt Romney, in one of classiest concession speeches I have heard, hit the nail right on the head when he said that a Clinton or Obama in the White House would mark surrender in the war on terror. If you, as a conservative, stay home in November or vote for the Dems, you are giving tacit approval to that surrender. Think long and hard before you act.

You don't support your captain because you like him; you support him because he's got the job...or YOU'RE NO GOOD.