Help me understand this exchange from last night's VP debate:

IFILL: Can you think of a single issue--and this is to cast light for people who are just trying to get to know you in your final debate, your only debate of this year--can you think of a single issue, policy issue, in which you were forced to change a long-held view in order to accommodate changed circumstances?

PALIN: ...But on the major principle things, no, there hasn't been something that I've had to compromise on, because we've always seemed to find a way to work together. Up there in Alaska, what we have done is, with bipartisan efforts, is work together and, again, not caring who gets the credit for what, as we accomplish things up there.

Now my (apparently outdated) dictionary defines "compromise" as "an accommodation in which both sides make concessions" ...or to put it another way, working together. So she doesn't compromise but they worked together? I'm confused.

And as long as I'm being picky, that same whacky dictionary defines "conservative" as "resistant to change."
So how can McCain keep making the claim that his is a campaign for change?

Up is down? Black is white? Huh?