In today’s Wall Street Journal Brendan Miniter writes Republicans should ignore the pressure to embrace a GOP moderate like John McCain for 2008:

“What the McCain Myth ignores is that for now a majority of voters nationwide embrace conservative principles. Talk of being a ‘compassionate conservative’ notwithstanding, it wasn't maverick moderatism that handed President Bush victories in 2000 and 2004. Nor has the McCain Myth been responsible for padding Republican majorities in the House and Senate. Indeed, Republicans have been winning by sticking to their principles and not bucking their party's ideas on tax cuts, national defense or reforming the judiciary.”