What is a purist? Someone that won't vote for a pro-abortion, anti-gun, socialized medicine, big government liberal just because he won the republican nomination?
/johnny
Oh Johnny always an interloper - you in your bitter angst misrepresents and lies. I have found absolutists to be bitter, angry and, yes, very authoritarian. Absolutists tend to lash out and are hell in person to deal with since their whole lives revolve around themselves from my observations.
Never complain about Obama again. You have not earned that right.
There will never be a candidate you will be happy with. Some people are better at tearing down and ripping apart and will do so with all their heart to prevent someone who is not an absolutist from winning. I don't get my way, so I am going to take my ball and go home. I have feeling you were one of those kids.
Instead of getting 70% of something, you now get 0%. Wallow in it.