To: quidnunc
So all it takes to stay in power is to rally behind a cause inimical to our best interests?
If I wanted that I'd be a Democrat.
5 posted on
10/12/2005 6:12:20 PM PDT by
thoughtomator
(Bush's judicial philosophy - Aliens' rights > your rights)
To: thoughtomator
So all it takes to stay in power is to rally behind a cause inimical to our best interests?
If I wanted that I'd be a Democrat. BUMP!
To some, it is "ideologization"...
To others, it's called "integrity"...
10 posted on
10/12/2005 6:15:57 PM PDT by
Gondring
(I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
To: thoughtomator
Just remember, the interest of the individual is secondary to the interests of the party comrade.
11 posted on
10/12/2005 6:15:58 PM PDT by
cripplecreek
(Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
To: thoughtomator
thoughtomator wrote:
So all it takes to stay in power is to rally behind a cause inimical to our best interests? If I wanted that I'd be a Democrat.No, it means that in order to be a successful politician you have to walk the line between a lot of competing interests, and it's usually not possible to eget everything you want.
So the choice is between compromising ibn such a way as to advance your agenda a little at a time, or howling the cant of your pure ideology in the political wilderness while the othere guy advances HIS agenda.
15 posted on
10/12/2005 6:19:34 PM PDT by
quidnunc
(Omnis Gaul delenda est)
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