With all due respect, there were those of us on this site advocating your new-found philosophy before the election. We knew what damage a Romney candidacy would do to the Republican Party.
In response, we were shouted down and called traitors by people who thought like you used to. Perhaps not you personally, but those people weren’t difficult to find here.
Now you want a front seat on the bus. Welcome back to your principles, but the front car is full. Line forms at the rear.
Beautifully put Colonel.
I would also like to point out that I notice many, MANY of our former adversaries have had the proverbial come to Jesus moment. Some of them have even owned up to it...though most do exactly what I thought they would and pretend the whole sordid cluster never happened to begin with.
That’s OK. Just proves who is worth trusting and who isn’t.
Regardless, moving ‘forward’ if such is even possible considering the demonstrated people who we have to move ‘forward’ with, will REQUIRE strict ‘party’ discipline. If that means a bunch take their ball and go sniveling back to the GOP, so be it. I’d rather lose honorably against an opponent whose dishonest than kiss moderate vacillating to ‘win’.
Because as we just had shoved up our posterior so forcefully (and continue to see daily as the GOP blames ‘us’ for their loss), the ‘moderates’ including the easily swayed ‘conservatives’ cannot do anything but help Democrats get elected.
And I hope this ‘offends’ them greatly. Because it is a demonstrated FACT.