I have some bad news for all of you holding out for the "perfect" presidential candidate: He's not running. Only one perfect man has ever walked this earth and He certainly didn't run for political office. Oh and here's more bad news: Ronald Reagan is dead. I know you think I'm being harsh but it's time that some of you face reality. You can pretend to be taking the "moral high ground" and you can chatter about "not compromising your principles" all you like but when it comes time to support a candidate and cast a vote you need to do the right thing.

Not voting in this presidential election will be the equivalent of handing over our country, and the command of our troops, to Hillary Clinton. Do you really want to be responsible for putting that woman in charge of the lives of all of our fine fighting men and women? Not me. When it comes down to it, I'll hold my nose and fill in the bubble for whatever candidate the Republican party puts on the ballot. Not because I'm a blind follower of the right, nope, my eyes are wide open. I'll do it because I know exactly what kind of damage a President Clinton can do.

Charles Krauthammer has a rundown on the candidates and points out that things aren't nearly as bad as you'd like to think:

Major grumbling among conservatives about the Republican field. So many candidates, so many flaws. Rudy Giuliani, abortion apostate. Mitt Romney, flip-flopper. John McCain, Mr. Amnesty. Fred Thompson, lazy boy. Where is the paragon? Where is Ronald Reagan?

Well, what about Reagan? This president, renowned for his naps, granted amnesty to 3 million illegal immigrants in the 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli bill. As governor of California, he signed the most liberal abortion legalization bill in America, then flip-flopped and became an abortion opponent. What did he do about it as president? Gave us Sandra Day O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy, the two swing votes that upheld and enshrined Roe v. Wade for the past quarter-century.

The point is not to denigrate Reagan but to bring a little realism to the gauzy idol worship that fuels today's discontent. And to argue that in 2007 we have, by any reasonable historical standard, a fine Republican field: One of the great big-city mayors of the past century; a former governor of extraordinary executive talent; a war hero, highly principled and deeply schooled in national security; and a former senator with impeccable conservative credentials. So why all the angst?

Read the rest of Dr. Krauthammer's column "A Fine Field of 4 1/2" and share in the serenity.