How About the Conservatives Learning Something from McCain?
If you want a more conservative candidate then you have to be in the party and work to get those candidates put forward. Abandoning a political party because your demands are not met is a certain way to make sure that your demands will never be given consideration, let alone met even part way.
2006 was a good lesson for the Republicans, wasn’t it? Was it “You Republicans need to listen to us!” or was it “You Republicans can’t trust us, we’ll take our ball and go home if we don’t get our way!”?
American politics is designed to be a system of compromises, and if you cannot compromise, then you truly have no home anywhere in the system. (The US Constitution is the result of a series of compromises – it wasn’t handed down from on high complete.) The US Senate is a compromising body, especially when the political numbers are so close with a slim margin between the majority and the minority. In that case the presidency is key with the veto power.
McCain as a senator would act differently than McCain as a president. The jobs are too different to be otherwise. Not understanding that is to head into MoveOn territory.
