Defeatism on the Right

"The perfect is the enemy of the good" is the saying. I've never seen such closed minds, save for Liberals on Iraq, than in recent reactions from conservatives on the current crop of Republican Presidential candidates. Examples here are concerning the recent GOP debate on MSNBC:

"The winner, I guess, is McCain by default, but we’re going to have to do
much, much better than this at articulating a vision that will get us elected in
2008."

“I. Was. Not. Impressed.”

“The ‘debate’ was an unenlightening game-show spectacle “moderated” by a
Beltway hack.'

“The debate was a bucket of contradictions."

And so on. My favorite was:

“I don’t understand this early obsession with who ‘won’ the debate. Can’t they
all be losers?”

Anyway, my own opinion is that the weakest of these 10 candidates stand head and shoulders above any Liberal politician currently in the running. The only problem is choosing the one I like best. McCain's bold stand against his friends in the Media over the Iraq War has me rethinking my earlier support for Giuliani. Romney's strong showing in the debate, has me rethinking McCain. But I'm sure it will all be sorted out in the coming months, maybe when Fred Thompson gets into the game?

My advice to the Right is: get over your obsession with Obama and Hillary (and your fears) and get behind our candidates. Find something to like, and there is much there, from immigration reformers, pork busters, and free traders, not to mention their tough stand against Islamic Fascism, which the Left seems to be leaving out altogether, I think to their great folly and eventual defeat in 2008.