They would be traditional values like...militarism, zenophobia, paranoia, grandiosity, imperialism, moral blindness, stratified corruption, greed, excess, jingoism, moronic simplicity...that sort of thing.

I agree that if America votes for the "traditional values" that Americans are most familiar with instead of something newer and much wiser they will elect John McCain. That won't be good, but it would be reasonably unsurprising as far as I'm concerned.