Good post. I personally cannot recall a politician who held all of my beliefs. I want a leader.
I believe many of the people bashing McCain are not true conservatives anyway. Anybody who think there is an equivalence between McCain and Obama is not a conservative, and that includes all of those so-called conservatives from the media. Those media conservatives have no expertise in any field, other than whining when everything does not go exactly their way. Those people did not endorse anybody, then when McCain moved to the front they have attempted to undermine him in the general election.
Just keep telling yourself that compromise of your core principles is the right thing to do—and stay on your meds, of course.
GREAT comment. I do happen to think their criticism is somewhat fair; I just don’t believe that will allow me to stay home. I have never seen a leader do it all perfectly. I’ll take faulted, compromising, and not-socialist at heart.