I've long held the suspicion that rank-and-file Conservatives hold a minority position within the Republican Party. This is a viewpoint that is most likely held in contempt by many of my fellow Conservatives, and a critical self assessment of this viewpoint is called for in the wake of McCain’s' victories. Many talk-show hosts will undoubtedly be scratching their heads over the outcome of the Florida election results. I sympathize with and understand their confusion. Much of what John McCain has said and done is a contradiction of what it means to be a right-of-center Republican in the modern sense. Indeed, he has been called the Anti-Conservative Republican (and his disdain, dare I say contempt, for Conservatives has been well-documented, regardless of what his campaign says). There are, in fact, rumblings from some talk show hosts, all of whom I respect mightily (and one of whom wrote a book on the Supreme Court), that they might sit out this election cycle if John McCain wins the Republican nomination. Sadly, based on my analysis of the Florida results, I find it unlikely that Mitt Romney will win over enough moderates to add to his appeal among traditional Conservatives. This means that, with the continued exit of candidates (Rudy will be out most likely within hours) McCain is rapidly consolidating a position of power within the Party that will see him to the nomination. And so, we have what could be billed as a Conservative crisis brewing within the Grand Old Party. Let me be plain: Conservative talk show hosts who advocate a pack-up-and-go strategy, rather than working within the party as a powerful minority, are indeed handing the Democrats, who have never been so close to achieving their progressive/socialist agenda before, a bonanza of unimaginable riches, as they will likely control at least one if not both branches of the Congress, the Presidency and, by default, complete control over Judicial appointments. The outcome will be horrific: we will lose control of the judiciary at the highest level for the next thirty years. This is something that Republicans of all stripes, colors, persuasions, interests, and backgrounds need to fight as aggressively as possible. Abandoning the field of political combat over pure principle, while admirable in the abstract, is a road to oblivion, and will usher in an era of liberalism unseen in our history. Regardless of anything else, it has to be considered that McCain judicial nominations will, at the least, be more palatable to Conservatives than anything that would come from a Democrat in The White House. It is for this reason and this reason alone that Republicans may need to swallow hard and vote for a man that many of us simply detest because of the center-left positions he has advocated over the years. Somehow I am reminded of LBJ's famous, off-color remark about a tent. We do indeed to be inside it, affecting outcomes, rather than standing by helplessly as a juggernaut of truly frightening "change" sears the landscape for generations to come.