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The Great One, Mark Levin, on Wednesday, had some extremely stern criticism of and advice for Senator John McCain on which the election could hinge. Levin is my absolute favorite conservative radio host. I listen to his show every day on MP3 downloaded from his audio page. He offers an archive of his recent shows absolutely free. This is a great service that he offers, and if you are concerned about the future of the conservative movement in the United States like I am, it is required daily listening.

On Wednesday, Levin put John McCain and his campaign on notice. He bluntly and articulately warned Senator McCain that he must pick a solid conservative running mate and it can’t be someone like the Republican nominee or else Levin will not vote for him. The candidate must be tough on illegal immigration, tough on terrorism, and pro-capitalism. I’ve taken the time to transcribe this section of his show that I believe sums up perfectly the frustration that conservatives currently have with the Republican party and specifically Senator McCain.

I hope McCain is listening to Levin because I know that I and many others certainly are.

For now, the audio is available here and this segment starts at approximately 01:04. Please listen to it if possible and support Levin an honest and adamant conservative. Here is the transcript:

MARK LEVIN:

We have to figure out a way to attract better people to public service. Because I’ve had enough of this, haven’t you? I’ve had enough of it.

The fact that the BEST the Republican Party could do. I’m gonna to be blunt, OK. I’m not a Republican Party activist. I was a conservative activist and a Reagan supporter. I am not a Republican Party activist.

So the best the Republican Party could do is a guy that’s 71 years-old who hates them! HATES the Republican Party. Has spent a decade undermining the Republican Party. And his first instinct was to attack the Republican Party in North Carolina. On Monday he spews out that comprehensive immigration reform bullcrap. He’s proud of the gang of 14 which undermined our efforts to kill the filibustering of the judicial nominees and he explains “Oh well but that proves I can reach across the aisle.”

HELL WE KNOW you can reach across the aisle. HOW ABOUT HANGING ON OUR SIDE EVERY NOW AND THEN!

I was in a good mood when this show started; I really was; now I’m not in a very good mood. I fear for my country, and then we got these guys right “oh we conservatives – we are optimists.” Yes we are optimistic, but we are also realistic.

We’ve got problems. We’ve got problems in the Republican Party and in the conservative movement and the movement where I read to you earlier. People like Frum and Brooks and others writing on and on and on how we basically have to surrender our principles – “it’s inevitable! We can’t win. Throw Reagan down the stairs, no more Lincoln, the hell with Thatcher, no Churchill. No, we got to throw in with the libs and the way to do it? We got all these little policy ideas. Oh yeah, I got a whole list of them. Ah we got to do this and we got to do this.”

Gutless wonders who refuse to stand on principle and fight for the cause. They surrender before the battle is even engaged. And of course they like John McCain. Because John McCain isn’t a conservative.

We have to decide what we are going to do this November and I am putting the McCain campaign on notice. I know many of them listen to this show and they hate my guts – too damn bad! I’m putting you on notice right now. If you don’t pick a sold running mate, I’m NOT voting for you. If you don’t pick a sold running mate, I’m NOT voting for you.

That’s not a knee-jerk reaction, that’s not a gut reaction, that is a logical point – a cerebral point.

And I will tell you why. I can not in good conscience vote for a guy who is going to legalize twenty million illegal aliens because he’s gonna. I can not in good conscience vote for a guy who is going to destroy our smoke stack industries and most of our other industries over time with this idiocy over global warming. I’m not going to vote for a guy who will do more to destroy the Republican Party and conservative movement in the future than any Republican president in recent memory. I’m not gonna vote for a guy who’s going to treat terrorists in Guantanamo Bay as if they are your garden variety criminals conferring all kinds of rights on them when he doesn’t have to. I’m not gonna do it!

And I’m not gonna do it because I have a conscience. Unless he picks somebody who gives us some hope for the future who will help rebuild the Republican Party and the conservative movement who will show some leadership. Then I’ll do it.

But if he picks somebody like himself or some unknown back-bencher, I’ll be voting for the Senate and the House. I’ll be voting for anything else I need to vote for on the ballot.

I’m just being honest with you folks. I don’t mess around. I know the others are on there telling you “oh yes who else are we going to do it…” — I understand it. I got it. But I’m going to do what I have to do.

The ball is in McCain’s court, and you know I’m right. You know I’m right. It’s up to McCain whether he wants Republican votes and conservative support. He can get it very easily. It’s up to him and the little operatives working around him if that’s what he wants.

More and more he’s showing that’s not what he wants. This race has just begun folks – it’s only May. We have another five or six months and we are going to learn a lot more. And some of these hosts out there, they’ve already thrown in the towel. “Well of course I’m going to vote for McCain and I can’t vote for the Democrats.” They don’t even hold the guys feet to the fire. They think they are smart. They’re smarter than… Of they are so clever and they also think that’s what you want to hear. They have no guts. And they have no sense.

Of course I won’t vote for the Marxists. That doesn’t even need to be said and I’ve said it enough anyway. No I would never do that. The question is what do I do in the affirmative? And you know I’m right. And you know a lot of you think what I’m thinking. And some of you are thinking it but you tell you friends and neighbors that “I’m going to vote for McCain.” But you know you’re concerned. So am I. It’s just that I admit it.