Not this time..., please!

Remember the 2000 and, especially, 2004 elections?  Remember (if you were a Democrat) feeling confident in the days before that NO ONE could possibly vote for Shrub Bush? Remember how you felt AFTER those elections?  Could that happen again...?

This morning the radio news seemed stuffed with Republican opioneer 'guests', all of whom were whingeing about how McCain is not conservative enough - almost a Democrat, really.  They were talking about how the Grand Old Party will need to rebuild after the coming big loss to Obama, and rebuild on its conservative base.

Maybe I am being paranoid, but I take this kind of talk as a disingenuous attempt at influencing uncommitted and independent voters that McCain isn't REALLY Republican, that, in fact, a vote for him is almost as un-Republican as a vote for Obama.  As my OCD reasoning goes, this is a shift in Republican strategy to get McCain elected by painting him as a lost cause semi-Democrat - just in time to sway undecided voters his way.  

Let's stay clear in this, if nothing else:  McCain IS a Republican, and a fairly conservative one at that, especially on social and economic issues.  He may be a 'Maverick' and he may frustrate the hardest of hardliners, but he's no Obama.  He's not even a Kerry, nor a Gore.  And remember, Palin IS a hard line conservative and she comes with the McCain package.  

On election day, don't start thinking that as republicans go, McCain would make a pretty good democrat, as the GOP opinionistas would have you believe.  If you want a Democrat in the White House, then vote for Obama.  

Let's not be fooled again, this time, please!