Ah, yes, that would be the "short term at all costs" brand of integrity.
I would probably vote for Sam Brownback if I got the chance (living in Texas, the nomination is pretty much decided b/f our primary), but I wouldn't call the desire to win a problem of integrity. Most people would rather get 70% than 0.
If you want to throw a tantrum, hold your breath until you turn blue until you get completely what you want, that's your problem, not mine. It indicates a lack of maturity that you cannot accept you're not always going to get what exactly you want.
However, it's fine to be so childish during the primaries. But if Rudy wins, I hope you'll have the sense and maturity to ensure Hillary doesn't get into the White House. If you sit on your hands in November 2008, I'm going to blame people like you (among others) for the disaster that follows.
Ivan
You have 15 minutes left to go in the game.
Your down by 6.
Your on the 15.
It's 4th and 8.
The question is...do you take the 3 points and close the gap....or do you go for 7 and risk losing completely.
Me, I take the points and try again. I'm more interested in "winning" the game than I am in "preserving the purity" of the touchdown.
Just a 4AM, Ravens fan sports analogy.
And you way would be like someone holding a gun to your head and you demanding to know if the cop who is coming to rescue you is conservative enough.
Even more, it's the "electability" hard-sell that got us Carter in 1976.
Don't buy into the mediocrity-wash folks.
Acting idiotically in the short term can give you a long term of death.