One thing I think everyone with a conservative cell in his brain had better consider – the American political system does NOT run on ideology. Ideologists NEVER get anything accomplished in American politics. They are the ever-present and virtually ignored, cantankerous, vitriolic, self-righteous spectators always angry and yet just as befuddled as to why they didn’t get to play the game. Grow up already!
I say this as an evangelical, Austrian school-capitalist, strict Constitutionalist, fervent pro-life advocate. McCain may not be my cup of tea either, but I read some history, and he is solidly within the Rep Party’s progressivist tradition of Lincoln-T. Roosevelt…the man whose willingness to negotiate and drop ideological striving over nonessentials for the sake of preserving (hello conservatives?) the basics.
Conservatives, from the social to the libertarians, are going to have to decide to let real leftists take over or get behind the Party that will hold off the barbarians.
