Columnist JB Williams reasons logically and methodically in his "Open Letter to Fellow Conservatives"--pasted up below--why we, conservatives, must hold our noses tight and vote for McCain this time. In a nutshell, we don't have any other alternative in terms of casting our vote next November: We are standing between the tip of a sword and the rough surface of a stone wall...and leaning against the wall is better than leaning against the tip of the word.

That, however, does NOT mean that we conservatives will roll over on McCain or on the RINOs and professional leeches now controlling the RNC.

That's why the conservative cri de guerre for the 2008 elections should be:

1- Vote for McCain,

3- Attack politically Democrats, and any other leftist candidates, will all you got,

2- BUT campaign for, and give all your money donations directly to, core conservative candidates only.

However, 2012 should be completely different in terms of the Republican presidential nominee; in 2012 we must nominate a true conservative.

To that effect, we should reclaim the Republican Party well before the 2012 primaries. That, in turn, imposes that conservatives start immediately organizing physically from the county level up to preparing to present a coherent and systematic battle aimed at rescuing the GOP from the hands of RINOs and professional leeches.

Rene Guerra