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Yet Another Republican Not Voting for McCain

With the outcome of Super Tuesday last night, I think it's important to revisit Billy Hollis' Open Letter to the Grand Old Party:

So let me say this plainly. If you nominate [...] John McCain, you've lost me. I won't vote for your candidate. Period.

I am but an infrequent author of an infrequently read blog, and as such, just another drop in the ocean. But I think it's worth pointing out that the GOP is on the verge of alienating yet another one of their ranks - a Twenty-year Republican who has voted straight-ticket for the better part of the Nineties and Aughties. John McCain getting the Republican nomination is the biggest indicator yet that the GOP has passed me by, or, maybe it's the other way around. Either way, the pretense of believing in small government, individual rights, and Federalism will finally be exposed.

I understand that the pendulum could swing back someday, so I'm not going to be so melodramatic as to declare that I'll never vote for a Republican again. But there is no way that I am voting for John McCain. Far preferable, to me, to write-in Ron Paul or the Libertarian Party candidate, or even see the Democrats win, as Billy Hollis wrote:

But if it's McCain [...], you'll get no vote or any form of support from me. I'll probably hope for a Democratic victory with a subsequent inept administration that causes the pendulum to swing towards somebody I can support in four years. Because, based on the Clinton vs. Bush comparison, I don't think a Democratic president would be any worse than [McCain], and at least there's an outside chance that the party and the base voters might rediscover their attraction to less government.

I'm tired of voting for the lesser of two evils, and I refuse to do that in 2008.