Conservatives

I have a friend who is a self-procalimed conservative. Not so far right to qualify as fundamentalist (actually, he's pretty centrist), but definitely with a strong conservative lean. And incredibly vocal. He supported McCain all the way through the campaign with an intense passion. He was even a little concerned about how liberal McCain had been in the past. But on Nov. 4th, he set aside his thoughts, and supported Obama. Not because of a change of heart, but because he was the one who had been elected. "He's my president," he said to me. "And I'm going to support him because I believe in the beauty of the American system more than I believe in my own views." Why can't people like him run the country?