The title may look suspicious, like snatched from the famous, or infamous, booklet that Vladimir Ilich Ulianov (aka Lenin) wrote to provide guidance to his hordes of Bolsheviks in pre-revolutionary Russia.

It is used here, however, as the title of this article, which proposes a course of action for conservatives to follow to get out of the horrible nightmare we are in now, with two leading candidates to the GOP presidential nomination that make us very uncomfortable the one, Mitt Romney, an very worried, the other, John McCain.

The whole nightmare started the very instant Rudolph Giuliani entered the race for the 2008 GOP Presidential nomination.

And it started gaining momentum at the moment when huge hords of misguided conservatives --spooked by the prospect of Hillary Clinton taking over the White House and goaded by the pundits at the Fox News Channel, who now are divided, some for McCain, and some for Romney-- started throwing all their support, sweat and money for Giuliani.

The mantra was that Giuliani was the only Republican capable to beat Hillary. It didn’t matter that he is an abortionist, gun-grabber, illegal immigration encourager, homosexualism lobby panderer, and Al Gore manmade global warming hoax fan. Add to it his endorsing brazen socialist Mario Cuomo over RINO George Pataki for New York governor, and his close association with Bernard Kerik, the disgraced former NY top cop. His using NY cops to "protect" his then mistress, does not talk well of him either. Sum up, furthermore, the "ice on the cake" after deserting the race: his endorsement for John McCain, which makes even more evident his true colors. (I knew it, and wrote about it since the commencement of the race, that Giuliani meant bad news. It was so obvious, so evident!)

With their all-out support for Giuliani, those throngs of misguided conservatives opened the door further wider to other conservative impersonators, two of whom are still running: McCain and Michael Huckabee.

Furthermore, they robbed oxygen --which boils down to cold money-- away from any solid conservative that could have decided to jump into the fray. In the sad conservative-sterility reigning in the Republican stables, no one did, for there is not one; however, one, who reasonably resembled a conservative, vacillatingly stepped forward: Fred Thompson.

As imperfect a conservative as Thompson is, he was dimensions not as bad as the rest; it was a choice between bad and worse. Given the circumstances, he was American conservatism’s desperate, very last resort; there was no one else to turn to. Thus, core conservatives came in droves behind him. However, he ended up letting America down, and letting down all those who supported him as well: he skedaddled abruptly out of the race. And the way he did it! What a shame! All spooked, like a puppy with the tail tucked between his quivering hind legs, he scampered out of the race at a premature stage when more than 1,000 out of the 1,191 or so GOP delegates had yet to be committed. Moreover, all primaries that had, so far, taken place were spurious in the sense that they all were contaminated by independents and Democrats voting for the RINOs, with the purpose of derailing him, and even Romney, out of the process. How come Thompson didn’t grasp it? (Or maybe he has a skeleton in his closet that would create more sensation than Jimmy Hoffa’s.)

Furthermore, worse, although he may have legitimate reasons of his own to have quit, his scurried departure may lead to the plausible impression that Thompson has only a pair of raisins for you know what; it all gives the plausible feeling that jumping ship was the most comfortable and expeditious thing for him to do. I didn’t expect from Thompson to let America down, let alone so miserably; there is no doubt that, in desperation, due to the presence of mostly RINOs in the race, I just wanted to believe in Thompson, ardently. All indicates that the "last resort" of many of us was indeed a sorry one. Emasculation seems to be the common denominator in the Republican stables in these times.

So, here we are, with John McCain --a RINO-- who during the campaign has become a crude conservative-impersonator, exposing himself as a cheap deceiver, and even as a great liar.

Ready for cut & paste, and for massive dissemination, here are McCain "conservative" credentials:

1. Paired with Ted Chappaquennedy to introduce the illegal-aliens amnesty bill

2. Joined John Edwards and again with Ted Chappaquennedy in the trial lawyer’s-dream Patients' Bill of Rights (By the way, Edwards made his fortune as a tort-trial lawyer.)

3. Paired with Russ Feingold Drastically to introduce that infamous free-speech trumping bill

4. Paired with Joe Lieberman to introduce crackpot climate change legislation inspired by Al Gore’s manmade global warming hoax

5. Opposed Bush’s two tax cuts

6. Supports social security credit for illegal aliens

7. Advocates for full criminal trials for terrorists

8. Wants to close Guantanamo and ship the terrorist guests to mainland prisons

9. Opposes harsh interrogation techniques, such as dropping water ("waterboarding") on the face of manacled Islamofascist terrorists that wouldn’t hesitate to behead any of us with their own daggers, or mass murder children, women and men for the only "sin" of being Americans

10. Joined the Democrats and the rest of the left and Islamofascists, along with other America’s enemies, venomously excoriating America for the pubertal hazing at Abu Ghraib by a bunch of idiotic prison guards

11. Supports stem-cell research on human embryos, which abortionists use as an "altruistic" justification for the murder of babies in gestation via abortion on demand

12. Opposes a marriage amendment to the Constitution

13. Opposes drilling in Alaska

14. Wanted to be John Kerry’s VP

15. Called the ads of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth "dishonest and dishonorable"

16. Voted against strict constructionist judges

17. Vocally manifests of justices of the like of Alito

18. Is a prominent member of the infamous Gang of 14

19. Was involved in the Keating-5 ethics scandal

20. Is endorsed by the NY Times and the rest of the "mainstream", leftist, media

He however has the effrontery to keep boasting at full lungs that he is a conservative . . . and many gullible are falling for it. He doesn’t keep bragging --egregiously falsely-- that he is the only Republican who supported the "surge". I have news for him, must of all us Republicans supported it; the only ones, and he knows it, who didn’t support it were RINOs, particularly his pals in the infamous Gang of 14.

McCain also claims to be the strongest on the global war on Islamofascism ("the war on terrorism", as he vaguely calls it) among all Republican candidates. Hogwash! He, among others, supported what came to result into the so-called "surge" in Iraq. But "the surge" represents only a fraction --an important one, though-- of America’s efforts in Iraq. Furthermore, Iraq is only a theater --a very important one, though-- in the global war on Islamofascism. In summary, "the surge" alone is not the global war on Islamofascism, as McCain is attempting to look like.

Furthermore, the global war on Islamofascism includes military courts for Islamofascist terrorists; he doggedly opposes it, and rather advocates for full criminal trials for terrorists. The global war on Islamofascism includes isolating captured Islamofascist terrorists from the world, secluded in Guantanamo; he rabidly opposes it, and rather wants to close Guantanamo and ship the Islamofascist terrorist prisoners to mainland prisons. The global war on Islamofascism includes using harsh interrogation techniques --such as, for example, waterboarding-- on Islamofascist terrorists; he opposes it, even on confirmed high-hierarchy Islamofascist terrorists.

Put simply, McCain uses his support for "the surge" as a shield to, deceivingly, portray himself as strong on the global war on Islamofascism, which he actually wants to undermine.

He doesn’t stop chafing our faces with the stories that he was a prisoner of war and that he is a veteran. That Everett Alvarez was the first American pilot that the North Vietnamese captured doesn’t and that the same communist beat the crap out of him for 8 ½ years, and most likely worse than McCain, doesn’t anoint Alvarez for the Presidency. Retiring the U.S. Navy as a Commander, Alvarez has quietly faded away on the horizon of life, as true heroes do, without fanfare, without cashing on it, and leaving it to others to do the well-deserved laudatory work.

Then, McCain’s military service doesn’t automatically qualify him as a conservative; McGovern, Carter, Kerry served in the military, but that didn’t make them conservatives.

Furthermore, there is the sound-bite floating around that McCain "sticks" to his beliefs. So what? What about if his beliefs are completely wrong, as those listed several paragraphs above are? As for "sticking" to his beliefs, intransigent stubbornness is not always a virtue; just as an extreme example to make the case clear, Jim Jones "stuck" to his beliefs. McCain has "stuck" to every one of his beliefs, conceding only on the fact that to fix illegal immigration " . . . the borders must be secured first." But he doesn’t explain what he means by it; will it be as Bush’s sending the National Guard to do mechanic, clerical and janitorial work for the Border Patrol? Worse, he "sticks" to his solid belief that the illegals must be granted what amounts to blanket amnesty.

That McCain is a conservative is a flat lie; he is a crafty conservative impersonator.

Thus, there is no doubt that McCain would walk to the presidential election with a deeply fractured Republican Party, with most of conservatives sitting it out; that is, McCain would be walking to sure defeat.

History proves it; conservatives sat out Gerald Ford’s try for a second term, and conservatives sat out H.W. Bush’s try for a second term, and conservatives sat out the GOP Congress election in 2006. They all lost.

So, the question arises: What is to be done by conservatives?

The most tempting --and right-- thing to do is to stand faithful to our principles and just sit the rest of the election process out, while preparing for 2010 and 2012.

But, is it the smart thing to do in the face of the threat to our national security and to our national sanity that a Democrat in the White House would pose? Couldn’t it probably be that Mitt Romney, if he sticks to what he now avows, be the very last compromise resort left to conservatives?

(A Democrat in the White House means: defeat in Iraq, Afghanistan and in the rest of the global war on Islamofascism; abortion-on-demand mushrooming wildly; leftist Supreme Court and federal lower-court judges; higher and more federal taxes; bigger and more intrusive, and even oppressive, government; galloping erosion of our individual rights; massive erosion of the people’s sovereignty; all-out assault on free entrepreneurialism; blanket amnesty and open borders for illegal aliens; marriage and other privileges for the homosexualist lobby; full embracement of Gore’s global warming, whose true purpose is wrecking the economy to "prove" that capitalism is bad; and many other nefarious measures, on and on, aiming at making America a socialist country.)

Politics, although guided by principles, ultimately reduces itself to being, as the tired aphorism says, "the art of the feasible." It means that –after all, but within reason-- one may end up recurring to doing all sorts of pirouettes to make the best of what one has got "to save the day", as some would say. Politics if a dead-end back alley, with the wall of compromise at the end. The "art" part resides in minimizing the compromise part of politics.

When the threat of the ailment is real, prophylactic medicine is needed, and most of the time, preventive medicine tastes horrible; for instance, one has to hold the nose to take castor oil when badly needed.

Thus, in what is left of the primaries, it is time to hold one’s noses and, despite the trepidation one would go through in doing it, vote, and even campaign for Mitt Romney to stop McCain.

At this stage, the task of conservatives is stopping McCain by voting and campaigning for Romney, even if at the expense of one’s core principles.

True, the probability that, in the remote eventuality that he is elected President, he could go as liberal as McCain is in there, it is real; but such probability seems to be smaller than the one that would stem from McCain himself being elected.

Remember that one of McCain’s most treasured penchants is rolling over on the Democrats; "reaching across the aisle", as none else than that super-RINO-on-steroids, Arnold Schwarzenegger, pontifically and sanctimoniously brags, believing, the poor fool, that he is enticing us, drooling-idiot conservatives, with it. That is, accommodating and fawning on the Democrats and the rest of the left, McCain’s trademark, should move us conservatives to vote for him? His pathological compulsion of accommodating and fawning on the Democrats and the rest of the left may end up in accommodating and fawning on Islamofascists . . . not a surprise from "maverick" McCain.

Furthermore, Romney, although dragging behind himself a useful-fool (i.e., liberal) track-record, he has publicly and very vocally avowed having gone through a sweeping epiphany and having thereafter converted to full-spectrum conservatism, i.e., strong in national security, social values, foreign relations, and fiscal, tax and government-size issues.

Taking his word, hoping it is true, conservatives should, holding their nose, temporarily throw all their support for Romney to defeat McCain.

In the presidential campaign proper, and if Romney wins the nomination, conservatives will have to go again through the nose-holding experience and throw all their support for him.

The goal will be at that time to defeat the Democrat candidate, either of the two larger evils, Clinton or Obama . . . or, most likely, a Clinton-Obama, "perfect storm" ticket. They will unite after the primaries. (Yes, Ted Chappaquennedy never mended fences with incumbent James Earl Carter after their acrimonious contest for the Democrat nomination in 1980. The antecedent exists, however, that Ronald Reagan chose George Herbert Walker Bush as his VP, despite that the latter had poured drums and drums of venom on the Gipper through the primaries . . . venom that the Democrats and the rest of the left, domestic and international, were going to use to malign and vilify Reagan during the entire 8 years of his presidency.)

However, it is highly possible that McCain gains the nomination, for the majority of misguided conservatives that supported Giuliani believing in his "inevitability" voted absentee. Thus, their vote, which could have switched to Romney, is lost . . . in favor of McCain.

And if that happens --a McCain nomination-- it means that the mass of the base of the Republican Party followed the establishment in abandoning conservatism. In other words, it would mean that solid, core conservatism has shrunk and has lost all power, and that the only sensible thing for conservatives to do in terms of the 2008 presidential election would be seating it out.

If the "mainstream" media, for all practical purposes being a just a limb of the Democrat Party and the rest of the left, is endorsing McCain, it is only because they know that McCain will never light up the fire in the belly Republican Party: conservatives. They know that a McCain Republican candidacy would for sure mean a sound Democrat victory. What other sensible reason would have the "mainstream" media behind endorsing McCain, but securing a Democrat triumph?

And, in the very, very remote eventuality that McCain wins the White House, he would be equivalent to what Schwarzenegger resulted being to California: a Democrat lite. The result would be disaster. With no support from conservatives, President McCain would have to lean on the Democrats, i.e., the left, which in the current critical juncture America faces in terms of national security, the economy, illegal immigration, Al Gore’s hoax of manmade global warming to wreck the economy, would be as disastrous as if Democrat occupied the White House. Worse, the Democrats and the rest of the Left will figure out how to put the blame on the Republicans and free entrepreneurialism.

"Deepen, exacerbate existing contradictions [i.e., problems, crises], and if they don't exist, create them or convincingly claim that they exist, and then deepen, exacerbate them...and, in the resulting chaos, blame our enemies for them." Vladimir I. Ulianov (Lenin)

As for me, if supporting McCain, besides treading on my own core principles, I would be wasting effort, time, and cash.