CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: “Contrarian that I am, I’m voting for John McCain. I’m not talking about bucking the polls or the media consensus that it’s over before it’s over. I’m talking about bucking the rush of wet-fingered conservatives leaping to Barack Obama before they’re left out in the cold without a single state dinner for the next four years. . . . Today’s economic crisis, like every other in our history, will in time pass. But the barbarians will still be at the gates.”

UPDATE: A Fred Thompson election message: Thompson sounds a similar theme.