There is, of course, a further option: nominate a moderate and make a full-throated case, explaining to the public why, despite wrong-headed decisions like deciding to tell companies where they can and cannot expand, America needs labour laws.
Do you still feel the decision to go to war in Iraq was right despite the wrong intelligence?
Repeatedly, Shakespeare's sonnets defy time: Yet do thy worst, old Time; despite thy wrong, My love shall in my verse ever live young.
Though the Strip Tease Girl in "Slaughter" released a bombshell quality in her (despite the wrong hairdo), she stays on the polite side.
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, in his New York Times review of the Macdonald biography, wrote: "Despite such wrong turns and self-contradictions, Mr. Macdonald emerges as a hugely appealing figure in these pages.
Yet astoundingly, Amos said recently that despite being wrong about his predictions, "I think I did exactly what I should have done".
It's simply absurd for this man to accuse others of "derping," a childish neologism meaning -- in case you've forgotten -- to "take a position and refuse to alter that position... despite being wrong again and again".
Remarkably, despite getting wrong the most important story in the last thirty years above the fold in The New York Times, Miller apparently still thinks of herself as a kind of Edward R. Murrow figure.
Krugman reserves a special contempt for people who, in his words, "take a position and refuse to alter that position no matter how strongly the evidence refutes it, who continue to insist that they have The Truth despite being wrong again and again".
The ball flicked off Ferdinand but, despite being wrong-footed by the deflection, De Gea made the save with an outstretched left leg.
