[Bull Market]

“Why do we as Conservatives have to settle?”

Because we are not the majority of the Republican party.

[Def Conservative]

True, but we aren’t dispensable and if enough conservatives sit out on the 7th it may turn heads.

[Candor7]

Bull is right.

Conservatives have to settle. My settling process will involve voting for the candidate whose position I like, the party affiliation will not matter a twit anymore.

Thats how this conservative will settle.

[Candor7]

Bull is right.

Conservatives have to settle.

But it is a mistake to believe that conservatives must settle within the Republican party, which has in many cases, candidates who differ very little form Democrat candidates.

My settling process will involve voting for the candidate whose position I like, the party affiliation will not matter a twit anymore.

Thats how this conservative will settle.

[savedbygrace]

Unless things have changed a lot in the past few years, conservatives are about 20% of the voting public. That means conservatives are somewhere between 30 & 40% of the Republican ‘base’.

That’s a pretty large minority for the GOP to slap in the face. If only a quarter of those conservatives refuse to vote for the liberal or ‘moderate’ nominee on principle, the GOP will suffer the largest blowout loss since Mondales’s loss in 1984.

I am extremely sad to see this happening. Liberal and moderate Republicans compromise with Dimocrats far, far, more than they do with conservatives. The exceptions have happened when conservatives rise up and demand with loud voices that changes be made. But the natural tendency of liberal and moderate Republicans is to move leftward with legislation and appointments, not rightward.

I just hope we can maintain at least 41 votes in the Senate against the most egregious attempts in these two areas.

[Proud Legions]

You do the best you can and fight for another day. But even with all the trash talking on these threads here at FR (and yes, I have been a member of FR for many years), any Republican is better than Clinton or Obama. Therefore you keep fighting for the best candidate left in the race in your mind, even if it is the best of what is left, and you vote for whomever is the nominee in the general election.

If we had a very conservative nominee win, what would we have told all the GOP moderates?

Conservatives must work harder to get one of our own to win next time. But you cannot give up just because the guy nominated is not conservative enough for you.

Any of the Repubs left will support the troops better (and I will be back in Iraq later this year), all will have more conservative social policy to some degree than the Dems, all will appoint more conservative judges, and all are at least marginally better on immigration. All miss out on one of the above at lease, but I will take a partial win in politics over a total loss any day--especially on the judge front. Anyway—take what you can get and get on with your own life—if we are truly conservative we believe we control our own destiny more than politicians control us anyway. Fight locally.

One man’s opinion anyway.