Everyone take a deep breath, and repeat after me:
“We shall support the most conservative candidate who can win.”
There. That’s better.
We can be as conservative and orthodox as we wish as individuals, and promote our causes as vociferously as possible.
But we must WIN. Which means, on occassion, that a mushy moderate GOPer is the only thing we could possibly get. We should hold our noses, grind our axes, and help that guy get elected.
Liberal Rs should be run out of town on a rail, a la Scuzzy. Here in Oregon, however, our formerly barely Republican Senator Smith couldn’t defeat a really Liberal douche bag. No conservative is going to win this state (though I wish otherwise). We’ll need to find candidates who are moderate to conservative, and exceptionally sexy (politically speaking). Then, we’ll hold our noses, work like heck, and defeat the douche bag.
YES...what YOU said!
Nope. No way. No more "electable" compromise candidates just because he or she has an 'R' after their name. Either they are Conservative or they or not. And I don't care if the party loses because of it. No more RINOs period.
Thanks, Uncle Miltie, for the sensible suggestion.
As much as I just LOVE the revolt in NY23, third-party candidates are almost always losers, guaranteeing victories for the least diluted vote. (Consider Mister Perot).
There are, hypothetically, some cases in which a squishy GOPer will be better than a Marxist Dem, and to be practical, there is nothing more important than trying to get ... at a minimum... the House back in 2010.
That said, the Country Club Rockefeller Republicans are very worried...and that's a good thing.
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That is what got us into this mess.
We need some solid steps to the right. One of the beauties of incrementalism is that by the time you get 'there' people have forgotten what it was like where they left.
How about I recall building a garage with no permit needed.
How about putting a check in an envelope, and the postman delivering your rifle in a couple of weeks, parcel post?
How about open religious displays during the Christmas season, commerating the birth of the guy that Christmas was named after?
Prayer (optional participation--you didn't say it if you did not want to) and the Pledge of Allegiance said every day in school at the start of the day?
The ability to fill the mudhole on the back of your property and use that land--without permits?
Look America, and weep at what we have lost!
Then dig in. grit your teeth, and gird your loins for the long haul, because we're gong to take it back!
“We shall support the most conservative candidate who can win.”
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vote for the candidate that most closely fits your principles, then count the votes to determine the winner.
Any other approach let’s the liberal media determine who gets elected.
“Then, we’ll hold our noses, work like heck, and defeat the douche bag.”
Not happening. There will be no more nose holding going on in this conservative household. Nor will it be happening in any household of my conservative neighbors, friends or relatives. We’re fed up and will JUST SAY NO to ANY rinos. Period.
that is a whole manure spreader of Bravo Sierra.
We are where we are is because we have been voting dem lite for the last 25 years ... forced to take the lesser “stench” Yeah ... howz that workin.
Einstein is correct .. keep doing what you are doing and results will not change.