Right wing talkers want a Democratic victory because it makes their jobs easier and, they think, they will make themselves richer. Proving that they don't actually care about conservatives or values or anything else but themselves, they have attacked McCain, by any rational standards a man who is a fairly conservative candidate, as not being sufficiently pure on their Conservative Hypocrite scale.
Mark Helprin, in an op ed in the Wall Street Journal figures that the Right-Wing Talkers are down on McCain, not because he isn't really a conservative, but because they expect to rise again, as they had in the '90s, if there is a Democrat in the White House.
It doesn't matter that Mitt Romney, suddenly their Reagan, became a conservative in a flash of light sometime last year, or that their other champion, a populist theocrat, is in many ways as conservative as Vladimir Lenin. The task is to stop the devil McCain.
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