Okay, so I caved and watched the debate last night. I wasn't going to because I am so thoroughly disgusted that voters in the early states have seemingly forgotten what a Republican is supposed to look and act like.

I'm glad I did though because it really cemented the reasons why I cannot and will not vote for John McCain. In the coming weeks and months when all sorts of pressure builds up to defeat whoever the Democrats choose, it will be quite easy to stand firm and not cast a vote in support of someone so repugnant.

McCain started out the evening claiming to be a federalist. Since when? Clearly Mr. McCain needs to be handed a copy of the 10th Amendment and have a reread. In fact, based on his record, I am not sure he even knows that there is a 10th Amendment in the United States Constitution.

He continued on to claim that there are those on Wall Street that should be punished for their greed. Why is it that liberals never realize where America's true strength comes from? Capitalism and our free markets are the backbone of our society. It allows us to be one of the richest, most prosperous nations on earth. Yet liberals, like McCain, are constantly inciting class warfare for their own personal and political gain.

And on that note, McCain's military service does not exclude him from being judged on his behavior. Mitt is no less patriotic because he led in business than John is because he led in the military. It is completely disgraceful that he would insinuate otherwise through his insulting line about leading for patriotism and not for profit.

Anderson Cooper, who surprisingly did a bang up job in the moderation chair, held McCain's feet to the fire and all but called him a liar to his face regarding his outright distortions of Mitt Romney's statements regarding support of the surge in Iraq. In all the smugness he could muster, the straight talker (yeah, right!) continued to cling to his lie.

The really striking thing for me throughout the debate was the CNN live tracker of the focus group. They clearly disliked McCain and he remained at the 50 percent range all night with only downward spikes into the 30 percent range to change it up a bit. However, Mitt Romney had a great response from this group. He would often spike to the 80-90 percent range and rarely ever dipped below 70 percent.

Mitt Romney won the debate. He was solid the entire night. However, I don't know if it was a good enough performance to derail McRINO. He had several chances last night to land some crushing blows, but did not make the effort. In life, that is the decent thing to do. In politics, against an opponent that plays dirty like McCain does that is an entirely different matter. But we shall see on Tuesday if his message got through. I hope it does because I am now entirely convinced that John McCain is not fit to be President of the United States.