McRINO: Death of the Republican Party

If Florida is any indication of how the Republican primaries will unravel, it's time to hit the marble shop and get that "RIP Republicans" tombstone. That is what the nomination of John McCain signifies to the Republican Party, its death.
I am still shell shocked that McCain won in Florida. I don't understand the attraction of voters to him. He's a one republican issue candidate - war on terror, and I thought that issue was second or third concern to Americans behind, at the very least, the economy. How can the war, with all it's "Bush lied, people died" and quagmire references, be the issue that McCain carries to gain the nomination? I don't get it... I thought the goal of the Republican nominee was to distance themself from W. rather than embrace him, or just not mention him at all. But here is McCain winning the nomination by supporting the Bush issue that has drawn the most criticism and ire from the media, other politicians, and the American public. I don't get it. If this RINO, thee RINO of all RINOs, gets the Republican nomination, I hope Ron Paul runs as an Independent. Then I would actually withdraw the statement that I would never, ever vote for Ron Paul.
If you thought Bush was bad, relative to his conservative values, McCain is the pits. Here are some highlights of his anti-conservative anti-Reagan Republican ways:

• McCain/Feingold aka the Incumbency Protection Act. McCain fought for and championed this severe restriction on America's free speech rights. The policy was supposed to prevent soft money from controlling elections. Instead, the bill forced organizations to become creative with their money (see Norman Hsu) and limited the ability of citizens to exercise their rights to free speech during elections.
• McCain/Kennedy aka the Infamous Amnesty Bill. It goes without saying, if you co-sponsor a bill with Teddy Kennedy, you are no conservative. This bill would have allowed millions of illegal aliens to remain in the U.S. as long as they paid back taxes, a fine, and promised to learn English. This bill was defeated twice in Congress thankfully. McRINO still claims this legislation was not an amnesty bill.
• Opposed 2001 & 2003 Bush Tax Cuts: "I cannot in good conscience support a tax cut in which so many of the benefits go to the most fortunate among us, at the expense of middle class Americans who most need tax relief." -McRINO in May 2001. These cuts aided the economic recovery following the tech bubble bust and 9/11. McRINO was on the wrong side of this issue. A true conservative knows cutting taxes is good and doesn't align themselves with liberal heavyweights like Teddy Kennedy (again). Do you believe he'd make Bush's tax cuts permanent...tax cuts he voted against initially? Think again.
• McCain/Lieberman Stewardship Act. McCain champions the global warming myth just like Al Gore. This act would place arbitrary limits on America's main sources of energy production. Radical environmentalists have lauded McRINO and affectionately call him Captain Climate. Scary thought...one sheet toilet paper rationing - return of the Sheryl Crow Act!
• Disdain for American pharmaceutical companies. He prepetuated liberal rhetoric and stereotypes, in the same vain as John Edwards' "Two America" tyrades, by calling the companies "bad guys" that use corrupt political influence to profit at the expense of the little guy. He's advocated importing drugs from Canada and discussed price controls for prescriptions in America. Apparently McRINO missed some Econ 101 and doesn't understand free market economics. Why would drug companies invest billions of dollars in research and testing if the government is going to steal their profits by setting arbitrary price caps? McRINO is weak on economics and he will cave to his friends, Hillary and Teddy, when they pitch him a socialized health care plan.

I don't get it. I don't get how voters in South Carolina and Florida could say economics was their major voting issue and McRINO won. I don't get it. For Republicans in 2008, the only political suicide worse than a Democrat victory in November, is winning it with a candidate that will put the pro-welfare state, pro-regulation, pro-amnesty, anti-capitalist left in the driver's seat. I'd rather see Obama/Hillary ruin this country the next four years and perhaps look to 2012 for a true conservative savior than let McRINO sully the good conservative Republican image we're trying to salvage from the mess Bush did to it.
Huckabee needs to bow out - let those evangelicals go vote for a good conservative Mormon.