Lesser of the evils

Great editorial in the Washington Times. Here's an exerpt that sums up what I've come to believe is the crux of the issue in 2008.

James Dobson and his colleagues speak of principles over power. This is exactly wrong. Any of the major GOP presidential candidates will deliver a conservative program. It won't be pure. But never in the history of democratic republics has any administration acted with "pure" conservatism or "pure" liberalism. The alternative to a Republican Executive, in real terms, is unthinkable in its consequences--a generation or more of unrelenting tax-and-spend economic policies, an increase of abortion-on-demand, unending interventionist liberal federal courts and a foreign policy that caves into international public opinion and weakens our military defense and national security.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071012/EDITORIAL/110120004