[fightinJAG]

A political party should represent a set of ideals. True enough everyone won’t agree at all times. But if my party’s standard bearer holds beliefs that are utterly antithetical to those which attracted me to the party in the first place, why should I support it? To fly the club colors?

Kevmo, you keep asking this question and I keep answering it! Anyway, here's one more thought on it:

Again, to reiterate my basic answer, I never said you should support it. Do what you think is right.

That said, I think it grossly denigrates the reality of what is occurring on Election Day to flip off voting for the President of the United States as "flying the club's colors."

I'm quite sure you didn't mean it that way, but I do want to point out that such attitude is truly unwise.

As I see it, we vote for one purpose only: to hire a President and Commander in Chief that is the best *of the available and viable* alternatives FOR THE COUNTRY.

If a person genuinely feels that bailing on Election Day is *best for the country,* well, okay. But that's the question.

Why should you support any candidate, ever? Because we each have a responsibility to get the best result for the country that we can get.

Of course, reasonable people can disagree as to what the "best result" is. But that is a complex and multi-dimensional inquiry. It is not as simple as "do I agree with this one man whose name happens to be on the top of the ticket?".

[Kevmo]

Thanks for responding. It is kind of a complicated thing. It bothers me when RINOs tell us that we have to betray our principles and vote for someone who’s antithetical to our positions.

[roamer_1]

Of course, reasonable people can disagree as to what the "best result" is. But that is a complex and multi-dimensional inquiry. It is not as simple as "do I agree with this one man whose name happens to be on the top of the ticket?".

But to allow the party, by way of one's acquiescence, to continue to drift closer to the rocks of liberalism is a markedly destructive form of negligence. A form of suicide by apathy, as it were.

It is the "pulling for the big "R"" that has gotten us where we are, settling for the moderate hawkers of "compassionate conservatism" rather than the truth of Reagan Conservatism.

There has been a saying going around this board as of late: "The perfect is the enemy of the good". There could not be anything further from the truth, and especially so when considering Conservatism. We cannot win with "good 'nuff", as has been so perfectly demonstrated by this primary cycle.