[TypeZoNegative]

Everybody decided to go puritan and they decided to stay home. Don’t blame me, I voted for Romney in the primaries.

[Corin Stormhands]

Everybody decided to go puritan and they decided to stay home.

Exactly. Right here on FR even, we systematically beat the frap out of every front runner in hopes that Duncan Hunter, who never had a chance, or Fred Thompson, who never really wanted a chance, would emerge the victor.

An Obama win may have been inevitable. Our fighting amongst ourselves to end up with McCain only increased the margin.

[TomGuy]

Everybody decided to go puritan and they decided to stay home.

Election after election has been voting for the lesser of two evils. The problem with that is that you still end up with one of the evils.

The GOP either wakes up (after their slaughter in 06 and their defeat in 08) and get back to their core, or they will continue to face future defeats.

If the GOP continues to move leftward, which they seem destined to do, they will continue to be the minority party.

The GOP seems complacent and content to be the minority party, however. They led the government most of the last decade, and they didn't do a very stellar job of it. Maybe they just want to stay the minority party -- they do seem to like it -- and the pay is the same, whether one is a minority senator or rep or a majority one.

[definitelynotaliberal]

I you’re going to levy charges of puritanism against those who refused to vote for McCain, then you should, in the interest of clarity, also rethink the notion of purity entirely. I mean, we are talking McCain, aren’t we? Wherefore the purity?