Voting for McCain Maimon Schwarzschild

Eugene Volokh goes for McCain:

I'd vote for either of the Republican candidates in November, and I have some reservations about both. Still, I think that McCain is likely to be very good on defense and on spending, and I think he's eminently electable (not the only criterion, but a very important one). I'm also moved by the views of many lawyers and scholars I know and respect as serious conservatives — such as Ted Olson, Miguel Estrada, John McGinnis, and Stephen Calabresi — whose support suggests that McCain will do a very good job on judicial appointments.

Here is Victor Davis Hanson:

McCain has the most diverse experience of any of the candidates in either party. Sens. Obama and Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., may bicker over whether being first lady or growing up in Indonesia constitutes the better foreign-policy background. But no one would question McCain's far greater breadth of service: carrier aviator, combat pilot, wounded veteran, tortured while a prisoner of war for five and a half years, U.S. congressman and senator for a combined quarter-century, 2000 presidential candidate. And the list only goes on.

[H]aving a veteran fighter and savvy old statesman as commander-in-chief makes a lot of sense.

My endorsement?  A general election victory for the Democratic Party - now thoroughly the heir of the Henry Wallace Progressives of 1948 - might be bracing.  I have no wish to be braced.  I voted for John McCain today.