Sunday, February 10, 2008

McCain Won, Your Guy Lost — Now Do What's Best for America by Jules Crittenden

You’ve had your tantrum. Now it’s time to be adult about it.

That is the heart, after all, of what being a conservative is about: recognizing reality and dealing with it.

Conservatives of many stripes have plenty of reasons to be unhappy with the ascendancy of John McCain. If abortion is your issue, if illegal border-crossing is your issue, if McCain-Feingold did it for you, or the accusations of torture in the midst of a difficult, dirty war. The list goes on. It may just be the long career of contrariness, punctuated by moments of anger.

Some conservatives are talking about sitting it out. The idea is that it is not such a bad thing to lose one. It might be better for the party. Give the other side enough rope, let the Republican Party regroup and find its feet and a few new candidates.

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