Conservatives didn’t have anything to vote for. It’s never easy to get people to come out and vote against anything and conservatives are naturally optimistic people who need something positive to vote for.
McCain wasn’t all that different than Obama. Cap and trade? problems with excessive profits? Greedy Wall Street profits? Reign in corporate CEO pay? No drilling in a barren wasteland?
If you can find one conservative economic principle in McCain’s original ideas, that’ll be the first.
People preferred him to Hillary but he ran against Obama and that was the problem.
Actually I agree with Rush here, if Hillary had run, many conservatives would have voted for her over McCain