Well, Super-Duper-Tsunami Tuesday or whatever you want to call it didn't go as planned for Mitt Romney.  The last viable Conservative candidate left for the Republicans suspended his campaign last night, and essentially handed the nomination to John McCain.

I had the chance to go to several Election Night parties and gatherings on Tuesday night, but I ended up sitting alone on my couch coming to this realization: The next President of the United States will be John McCain, Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.  Scary stuff, huh?

Watching Hillary make her "speech" Tuesday night was probably one of the most depressing things I have witnessed in some time; how can people really support her?!?  She couldn't rattle off more than three words on her own before looking back down at the speech someone on her staff wrote for her.  She would end her sentences without knowing it, and just continue on the next sentence only then realizing that she was supposed to stop and wait for applause - you could almost see her thinking this as she spoke.  Yet she would continue reading off the words in front of her without recognizing their meaning.  I bet Japan could make a more emotional robot.  

Barack at least spoke from his heart, and is an eloquent speaker at that.  It's a shame he has nothing of substance to say other than Americans want change and hope and that we all need to work together.  That's super, yet Barack was one of the most liberal State Senators in Illinois history and now he thinks everyone is going to come together for him?  How is he really going to go about making these so-called changes?  What are his specific policy ideas to implement them?  No one really knows, but damn, isn't he inspiring?

So there I am, thinking about which of these candidates our next President is going to be.  I am already in a sense of bewilderment that anyone could seriously think about voting for Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama, but then I started to seriously contemplate whether or not I could really vote for John McCain over either of them.  If McCain wins,  I know he will shift our party away from the principals I hold dearest; fiscal conservatism and stopping further illegal immigration.  Instead we will see the end of the Bush tax cuts(sure he says he will keep them, but when he realizes how much the war is continuing to cost and how high our deficit is when he comes into office, I would bet a month's salary he won't even try), and illegal immigration will take a back door to just about every other issue and our border will continue to remain open. 

Also, I don't believe McCain will do anything to rid us of our dependence on foreign oil, which I think is one of America's top priorities; not only for stimulating our economy, but for the war on terror.  At least Hillary and Obama mention this in their top talking points.  If McCain loses, at least our party might shift back to what I know is most important and regain the White House in 4 or 8 years as the party I have come to know and love and not some re-shaping of the Democratic party.

But then an image of Hillary Clinton looking down at her script and spewing out whatever is put in front of her pops into my head, and I think about what else she might do without putting ample thought into it.  Or the idea of the most inexperienced Presidential candidate in many a generation in Barack Obama being in the White House and not knowing the first thing to do when he gets there.

At least with John McCain I know our country won't have either of these two in charge with a Democratic Congress ready to approve any spending bill put in place.  Plus, McCain may just start to adjust accordingly back to the Conservative base to mend some fences(hopefully erect them as well), although that would certainly be the opposite effect of most nominees after they win the primary.

I would also know we wouldn't be withdrawing prematurely from Iraq and risk losing all credibility in the war against radical jihadists, and I know he will pursue Osama Bin Laden with a fervor and vengeance.  And hey, he's a war hero, so he can't be all that bad right? (I have a feeling many Republicans ended their internal debate with this point on Tuesday)

John McCain may have more than a few discrepancies with the conservative base - and by no means am I an enthusiastic supporter - but when you consider the alternatives, anything but a vote for McCain in November is a loss for our party.