Paraphrasing Claire Wolf, “The GOP is at that awkward stage. It’s too late to work within the system, but too early (for some) to shun the bastards.”
“Paraphrasing Claire Wolf, “The GOP is at that awkward stage. It’s too late to work within the system, but too early (for some) to shun the bastards.”
Jim,
I have an enormous respect for you and all you’ve done. I share your disappointment.
But, I believe we can still “shape up” the GOP — we cannot do it all in one step, but we can do it incrementally. We achieved a major victory, when many conservative Republicans were elected to the House in 2010.
We need to think strategically, for the long term, setting our emotions aside, hard as that may be.
Romney wasn’t my first choice for GOP nomination, he was nearly my last, just above Ron Paul. But now, even if we end up with a Republican House and Senate, Obama won’t sign a repeal of Obamacare, and he may appoint another one or two liberal judges to the Supreme Court, not to mention the executive orders he can give, bypassing Congress, and we are literally cooked for the next generation, and by that time, nobody will even remember what freedom is all about.
So the only logical choice this year is to work on electing enough Republicans: conservatives if possible, but moderates, if that will give us the majority and yes, like it or not, to defeat Obama, and our only possibility for that is indeed to support Romney.
Then in the next several years keep working on electing more conservatives to Congress and state level offices, and work to find and encourage a VIABLE conservative to run for president — maybe Scott Walker, maybe Paul Ryan, maybe someone else will emerge.
We can’t afford to take our marbles and not participate, it’s too much, such as the country, our liberty are at stake.
I believe these are the same reasons that prominent conservatives from Newt to Perry to Santorum to Cain to Palin to Ann Coulter are all doing everything to help defeat Obama, by supporting and campaigning for Romney.