McCain to NRA: You're stuck with me

Yet another conservative group surrenders to the unpleasant truth, and accepts McCain despite his past hostility toward them. As bad as he is, they tell themselves, the Democrats are worse:

But even the encomiums of McCain's former GOP presidential rivals and other Republican elected officials could not dispel the suspicions of many gun enthusiasts.

"He's the lesser evil," said one young self-described "gunnie" from the Memphis area who blogs at squeakywheelseeksgrease.com. "But I'm still looking for the right candidate. . . . I'm not thrilled at all with John McCain." Many bloggers who write about gun issues use pseudonyms because of the controversial nature of the debate.

The forces of Big Government are on a tacking course, zig-zagging from left to right, throwing up whatever smoke screens they must to take us closer and closer to authoritarianism. And McCain is the closest thing voters have to a conservative candidate. But he's not offering a watered-down conservatism, he's merely the only candidate using conservative terminology to describe his Big-Government agenda -- with the added incentive of tossing us a few bones.

We can either be thankful for what they'll give us, or -- recall the powers we've delegated to a failed system and build a government that actually promotes our values and protects our way of life.

That's the choice the mainstream parties don't want you to know you still have.