I may have subconciously toned down my staunch conservativism because I have been called down on it so many times. My unwillingness to compromise the issues has been critisized so much. I know I despise and fear liberalism. I have nightmares about liberals getting into power. I always thought even if we get a RINO in we have another chance to fix it but if we get a liberal rat in, its over. We'll never get in power again.
I have been taken to the woodshed for my former position and I have learned. I agree with your analysis about suiters. Its a good one.
Thanks. NO! is a very small but powerful word and we all need to use it more. Too many times throughout life we are afraid of not getting what we want so we quickly agree to anything that resembles what we want. We say YES! If we hold out, if we refuse to accept less than the best or less that we want and deserve, we may not get everything, but we will get more.
Over the last 2 years, as people saw the 9 clowns from the DNC, they started pledging their undying devotion to Bush and did so to the degree that we lost all of our bargaining power with Bush. When he should have been playing to his base and giving us what we wanted, his advisers told him that we were in the bag and that he could go after the middle. And he did, pandering to buy votes with tax money.
So what we have to do is make sure a RINO doesn't make it through the the primaries. I never thought of that.
Sure you did. You just didn't believe that it was possible to achieve.
I may have subconciously toned down my staunch conservativism because I have been called down on it so many times. My unwillingness to compromise the issues has been critisized so much.
Watch how I get blasted, the names that I get called, and you'll think that you've been getting love letters. I've been called just about every name in the book from whacko right wing extremist to a leftist. LOL
I know I despise and fear liberalism. I have nightmares about liberals getting into power.
Despise it, but don't fear it. Liberals will expose themselves for what they are. It is the RINO who masquerades as our friend -- the enemy inside the gate, if you will, that we must be on guard against as he insinuates himself into our hierarchy of power. Arlen Specter is the prototype for this. I started working to defeat Specter a year before Pat Toomey even announced that he was running. We started to bring him to Western PA to make him a household name 3 years ago. We built a grassroots organization (I am not taking credit for that) that worked feverishly towards that end and in this area of the state, he beat Specter by about 2 to 1 -- even in liberal Pittsburgh.
I won't rehash the story here, but this team came within a swing of 8500 votes statewide of defeating a 4 term incumbent who outspent him 4 to 1 AND had the backing of Bush and Santorum.
We have worked since the election to keep this coalition alive and ready for the next campaign. BTW, if Rick Santorum doesn't redeem himself for supporting Specter, this coalition WILL NOT be working to get him reelected.
I always thought even if we get a RINO in we have another chance to fix it but if we get a liberal rat in, its over. We'll never get in power again.
I did too when I was younger. The older I got, the less I believed that. Now I am totally unconvinced that it anything but true.
Stay true to your conservative convictions. Don't let yourself be dissuaded by fear tactics.