A Little Perspective on McCain (updates)

Published: February 2, 2008, 12:44 pm

Some conservatives have lost perspective in the current election cycle. Overheated rhetoric is becoming the mainstream, and accusations of disloyalty and catastrophe are the buzzwords of blogs and talk radio. Here are my thoughts for your consideration. Lets keep in mind one simple thing: politics is the art of possible, not the ideal. You don't win in politics by losing, and you don't win by sitting it out. Each person can make that decision as they choose, of course. But the animosity being shoveled at McCain is almost Kossack-like. Somebody was bound to say that McCain Derangement Syndrome exists. What I'm finding hard to swallow is the conservatives-as-purists, people who are asserting that if the Republican candidate does not line up exactly with their ideals then they must not be a conservative. It's hard to add to Ed Morrissey and his comments about Ann Coulter. I've stated before that I think Coulter is bad for the

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