What’s more important to you? Preserving a party or preserving the country. You can honestly enable Obama being elected and be able to look at yourself in the mirror? To hell with it...we all deserve to die.
Preserving the country. That's why I'm not going to vote for a bad candidate just because he has (R) after his name.
In case you hadn't noticed, the word has gotten out that conservatives will vote for the (R) anyway, as long as they are thrown a few lies and some look-good/feel-good rhetoric. As long as this is the case, conservatism will continue to lose ground, regardless of which party wins...ergo, a loss for the country.
However, if it can be demonstrated that conservatism is relevant, and the party ignores it at its own peril, then we might have a loss for the party in the short term, but a gain overall for the country.
And if a liberal with an (R) can win without conservatives, then maybe conservatives should re-examine whether the are the "silent majority" as is repeatedly claimed.
Here's another way to look at things....
How can we expect our candidates to stick to principles, if we won't do so ourselves?