..people feel threatened —they don't want to see a bunch of kids who may have voted for Barack Obama take over," Wead said. "They feel a sense of ownership over the party —but there has to be an accommodation.
That is a scary proposition, mostly because it seems like the commitment of the leadership (either current leadership or the Ron Paul supporters who are poised to take over positions of power in the R-e) is to this or that candidate rather than to THE RULE OF LAW.
It’s the same thing I fear within government itself. I hear people ask why Linda Lingle - a REPUBLICAN! - would lie about Obama’s records in Hawaii, and I wonder if they can even grasp that when people are lawless it doesn’t matter whether they have an R or a D behind their name. Lawlessness is just lawlessness, and a lawless person does whatever supports their agenda, period. You can’t trust them to deal in truth, only in expedience.
What we need is people and leaders who deal in truth and in the law - not in lawlessness and expedience. Commitment to a particular candidate is dangerous unless it is matched by an even-greater commitment to both truth and the rule of law.
I’ve been saying a long time that the illegal election of the current usurping man of lawlessness in the White House would lead to an epic crisis over the very rule of law. I wish I had been wrong about that, but what we’re seeing in EVERYTHING right now confirms that that’s precisely what the country is dealing with. And it’s a crisis larger than the economic crisis. It is the foundational crisis that has allowed the smaller crises to rise to such lethal levels.