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Friday, February 8, 2008 12:00 AM

Will conservatives vote for John McCain?

Pundits on the right debate whether to vote for the presumptive Republican nominee, and whether his loss would ultimately be better for the party.

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  • Friday, February 8, 2008 12:23 PM

    I remember 1980

    In 1980 I was young and foolish, and I said young and foolish things. Among the things I said was "If Reagan is elected, it will be such a disaster that the Democrats will return to power in 1984." This was the sort of ideological stupidity -- in grad school, informed by Marxist dialectics -- that drives true believers to claim that things have to get worse to get better. I am just tickled that the ideologues of the Far Right are now seizing upon that historically fallacious idea. Sometimes, when things get "worse," they continue to get "worse." I'm glad that the Republicans are about to learn that lesson -- I hope it takes them as long to learn it as it did the Democrats.

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