Re-read Jim Robinson's statement, above.
(You'll need more than a bath if your moral purity results in clinton: the sequel.)
I'm just wondering, what's the alternative to "moral purity"? Moral compromise? Moral corruption? Moral decay? Amorality? Do we "win" if we become the very objects we despise? If we're forced, through our fears, to embrace the very principles whose opposition defines us?
The message being sent to the Republicans is that they are not conservative enough. The LAST strategy they should adopt is the liberalization of their platform. If they don't run a conservative this time, I'll stay home. I won't actively participate in a fraud of that magnitude. And if we go down, at least I go down with my conscience clean.
It's the choice I've made. It's the choice I've been FORCED to make.