McCain? Conservative? nah, not really. Had the opponent been someone less toxic, a loss wouldn't hurt so bad. You play the hand you're dealt. So-called "conservatives" failed by not making sure the nominee was more like Reagan. Those who pitched a fit about McCain and tore him down, here and elsewhere, didn't put the bullet in the chamber of the Marxist enemy: they just helped cock the hammer. Rest assured the Marxist, should he be elected, will pull that trigger and fire that round into the heart of conservatism.
In a sense, you're correct. Those who felt McCain wasn't genuine enough did their part to elect an Obama. They were Lenin's 'useful idiots'.
Reagan once said something about not speaking ill of a fellow Republican. The "conservatives" who mouth Reagan and fail to walk the walk are brothers and sisters in arms with Obama. They just are too myopic and pigheaded to see it and/or admit it to themselves.
So we may have the beginnings of a new revolution on our hands in the near future. In the foxholes, I'd be careful whose screen names jump in with you and claim they're ready to fight for freedom. They may be friend or they may be Vichy.
Sorry, that BS just isn't going to fly.
The vast majority of the right swallowed our pride and ended up solidly behind the candidate.
It was that mushy middle that McCain spent so much time wooing that went head over heels for the Messiah. The result is a Republican party without even a tent, let alone a big tent.