[strela]

I don't think anyone is demanding perfection from our conservative candidates.

I suspect that if Tom McClintock were any threat to Cruz Bustamante's candidacy in this race, we'd all be hearing some very interesting things about him from the pen of the Rat sleazemill.

To me, those points are more than just bargaining chips. They are core beliefs that I do not choose to waver from.

Then you are going to hold out for the full loaf instead of half a loaf. I suspect you are going to get mighty hungry before that happens though. Careful you don't starve before your mythical "perfect" social conservative comes along who is able to win.

[DryFly]

I'd rather starve waiting for someone I acually believed shared my values, than sit down to a bountiful dinner table with a pro-life, anti-gun, pro-tax amateur whose core beliefs are much closer to those espoused by Cruz than McClintock.

[Bluntpoint]

I once had a tumor growing inside me. It was going to kill me. To excise that tumor all at once would have killed me also.

The doctors reccommended multiple small surguries to remove it.

I said "Hell no, all or nothing doc!"

The feller down at the funeral home has been real nice with all the pre-arrangement details.