Exactly. Facing reality involves admitting a defeat is a defeat. Claiming that a win for the socialists is somehow a good thing is delusional thinking.
If anything should be clear by the excitement over Obama or the first female president it's that we've been bitching and whining about the liberals in our schools and our media but not DOING anything about it. We think "Well, at least I'm cranky about the propaganda pushed on my kids, that's SOMEthing."
No, it's not. And letting the Dems have ANOTHER 'strategic" win is not winning--it's losing.
We will never have a perfect conservative candidate. We can only play the hand we're dealt--and sometimes, like now, that's a very bad hand. But just folding and letting the other guy collect the pot isn't a win, no matter how one wants to claim it is such.