How About the Conservatives Learning Something from McCain?
JC: Moving from a large minority to a slim majority is not a ‘crushing’ victory. What exactly is the majority in the Senate these days?
ricg: My brother is an army officer and her supports McCain because he won’t left out to dry.
dougf: The conservative movement isn’t done, it just has to remember that it is a part of the American polity. If it wishes to divorce itself from that then it gains perfect irrelevance in its perfect isolation.
BD: I agree, Republican voters have spoken, and have picked their (likely) candidate. It would be very poor form indeed to blame the voters for the poor showing of more conservative candidates. Perhaps next time there will be fewer conservative candidates so that bloc can coalesce around just one earlier.
Unless the myriad of conservative candidates means that conservatism is not a unified bloc but instead made up out of many different disparate groups. If that is the case, each of these conservative groups will have to compromise something in order to coalesce around a candidate.
