Are You Willing To Compromise & Surrender What Our Founding Fathers Set Forth For This Republic?

me | February 3, 2003 | callisto

[callisto]

Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them if we basely entail hereditary bondage on them.
- Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of the Causes and Necessities of Taking up Arms, July 6, 1775

Many of us were hoping for a truly Conservative candidate to be our nominee, but Hunter, Tancredo and Thompson made their exits and those who remain are less than substandard by comparison. Some of us are willing to support whomever the Republican nominee may be. I was recently asked if I was willing to compromise my Conservative values and principles to support the nomination of a less than worthy candidate in order to defeat what I think may be the worse destruction leveled on this great nation: the election of Clinton or Obama to the Presidency.

Initially, I understood the question posed but I failed to see the truth behind the question. Fortunately, DoughtyOne, posted a thread asking just how willing we are to compromise those values with a great analogy as to the ramifications of such a compromise. I won’t restate DO’s words as he said them so well himself, but the meaning behind those words have reverberated in my mind since and left me asking myself, “How many of us realize the compromises we are about to make this coming Tuesday?” The more I read and posted on threads this week, the more I realized that many of us are willing to make that compromise without regard to the intent and principles of our Founding Fathers when they created this great nation in which we are fortunate to live.

Our Founding Fathers were eloquent spokesmen on the founding principles of self-government who believed in Liberty, Freedom, Justice and Equality. They believed that Wisdom, Knowledge and Virtue were necessary for the preservation of those rights and liberties. With a stirring language, that reaches the depths of one’s soul, they wrote one of the greatest documents in history which changed the face of this world forever. When they undertook to sign their names to the document they risked their own pursuit of life and happiness to grant us the ability to know and live under the principles they valued most. To denounce the king’s authority was an act of treason, punishable by death, yet 56 determined men picked up quill and ink to sign the Declaration of Independence risking their lives, fortunes, family and all that they held dear.

So I ask each of you, are you willing to give up all that these men gave for so little in return? Because if we refuse to stand up for what is right and principled when given the choice, we will deserve what we receive for accepting what has been handed to us. To many of you I am preaching to the choir, but to others I hope you will read this post and consider the principles on which our nation was founded, and the effects of relinquishing those tenets. Before you go to the polls on Tuesday, consider exactly what is at stake when you cast your vote.

In the words of Samuel Adams, 1781:

Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual - or at least that he ought not so to do; but that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country.

[callisto]

FWIW, I have no intention of telling anyone how to vote or to condemn anyone's choices. I only ask that you consider what is written, what values and principles you hold in your heart, and that you let your heart guide your vote on Tuesday. Personally, I pray God has better plans for our nation than the path we are heading down, but if all else fails we still have the chance for a brokered convention and the hope that the nominee is Conservative!

[an amused spectator]

Are You Willing To Compromise & Surrender What Our Founding Fathers Set Forth For This Republic?

Yeah! What's on TeeVee?

Pass the chips!

;-)

[callisto]

My first, and hopefully only, vanity.

[PGalt]

...they wrote one of the greatest documents in history...

Thanks for posting. Good post.

[callisto]

I hide my shoes tonight! LOL.

[Piquaboy]

I am not, but there are a whole lot of idiots in this country that are ready too.

[abseaman]

I can’t remember who said this, it goes something like this, the people will have the government they deserve.

Just my thoughts.

[big'ol_freeper]

Many are more than willing to compromise their principles to vote for one of the three RINOs if they the GOP nominee. Heck, there have been a whole slew of Freepers who have enthusiastically supported Romney, McCain, Huckabee and Paul right from the start when there were conservative candidates for the nomination in the race. Of course one would have to conclude that those individuals never had any conservative principles, have confused the GOP with conservatism as if they are equal, and they really shouldn't even be Freepers.

When it gets to the general election, if one of the RINOs is the Republican nominee I will have a big decision to make. I will likely not make that decision until I step into the voting booth.

[DogandPonyShow]

That is why you have primaries. So that a nominee is determined.

The primary is almost over and it is time to rally around ONE person. That person will be McCain, for better or worse. Democrats are the enemy, NOT MCCAIN!

[CindyDawg]

There are really no voting choices left now. True conservatives aren’t running and many seem ok with that.

[13Sisters76]

“Are You Willing To Compromise & Surrender What Our Founding Fathers Set Forth For This Republic?”

No.

Let the demonRATs have it. The damage they will do might just wake us up to what WE have to do. Finally.

[mewzilla]

Because if we refuse to stand up for what is right and principled when given the choice, we will deserve what we receive for accepting what has been handed to us.

Amen to that, callisto!

And speaking of the Founding Fathers....

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Thomas Paine

[callisto]

The primary is almost over and it is time to rally around ONE person. That person will be McCain, for better or worse. Democrats are the enemy, NOT MCCAIN!

You obviously MISSED the point of the post. It is NOT time to rally around ONE person. Most primary votes have not occurred yet. The time to give forethought to one's decision is BEFORE one pulls the level! And that decison does not have to be until the last moment.

[DogandPonyShow]

Fine then.

McCain will be the nominee. I don’t like it that much but that is the way it will shake out. He is better then any of the Dems, you know it and I know it, MUCH BETTER!

There will be only one logical and rational choice in November for us and that will be McCain.

Anyone who stands by and lets the Dems take the Presidency is a traitor and enemy of America.

[CindyDawg]

I have been thinking about it. A lot. I’ve even been thinking about “picking up the pen” for none of the above or writing in the name of someone else.

[an amused spectator]

if we basely entail hereditary bondage on them.

We're there...

It's accelerated over the last few decades. The old trapper from North Dakota has put a lot of fence posts in.

Personally, I'm beginning to believe that the government we have is a massive violation of the 3rd Amendment.

What didn't the British think of it?

Instead of moving troops into peoples' homes, just tax their homes, take the money and build massive shining houses for the "public servants" and the troops in amongst the people, then make EVERYTHING illegal so's they could arrest anyone they wanted to.

BRILLIANT!

[NoGrayZone]

“Democrats are the enemy, NOT MCCAIN!”

Mclame IS a democrat, duh!!!

[callisto]

True conservatives aren’t running and many seem ok with that.

I am not. But there is another potential aveneue, God willing. Unfortunately Jefferson said it best when he made this statement:

And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever.
- Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 18, 1781

More citizens in our country should acknowledge the truth in that statement.

[sionnsar]

Let the demonRATs have it. The damage they will do might just wake us up to what WE have to do. Finally.

I doubt it. So long as we have but one comfort to be lost, nothing will happen.

[NoGrayZone]

YOU are the traitor. “There will be only one logical and rational choice in November for us and that will be McCain.”

There is NOTHING rational or logical about that post.