GOP senator: McCain betrayed Republican principles

From CNN:

South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint on Friday became one of the first high-profile Republicans to publicly criticize John McCain following his electoral defeat, blaming the Arizona senator for betraying conservative principles in his quest for the White House.

The conservative senator, speaking to a group of GOP officials gathered in Myrtle Beach at a conference on the future of the Republican Party, described how the party had strayed from its own "brand," which, according to DeMint, should represent freedom, religious-based values and limited government.

Oh good Lord, shut up already. We had 8 years of a conservative's wet dream - limited government to the point people drowned in New Orleans, two wars for freedom (neither of which we won, yet), and about as much of a value-based agenda as the American people could stomach. And it sunk our country. No sane person in America thinks that John McCain's problem was that he wasn't conservative enough. America got the conservative dream, and it turned into a nightmare. So spare us the historical revisionism. John McCain lost because he didn't ditch conservatives enough.