“Or does endorsing Romney immediately convert you to a RINO, despite your life’s work as a Conservative?”
If one goes out and rapes a woman after a lifetime of celibacy, does that make him a rapist?
If one goes out and blows up a loaded school bus after a lifetime of pacifism, does that make him a killer?
If one writes a hate filled screed claiming the Jews use the blood of children in recopies, does that make him anti-semitic?
Yes. You throw away a lifetime of conservatism by helping to elect a rino. All your life’s work was for nothing if it means you abandon it out of a desire to ‘win’ regardless of your principles. I am utterly convinced that people with this question, and those who share the rationalization, simply want to have their cake and eat it too. There is no possible way that it can survive the most basic pass of critical thought, yet over and over, I see some version of it posted.
I have said this on numerous posts and no one even attempts to give it a serious answer. They duck, dodge, and get offended, but they refuse to answer....
“How can a conservative vote for a liberal/RINO without abandoning their conservatism?”
Again...
Conservative thought is the polar opposite of RINO/Lib. When you vote RINO/lib, you are saying that rather than sticking with what you claim to believe, you are willing to abandon your beliefs and adopt others in opposition to them. There is no other way around it. A conservative will not, CANNOT vote for a lib/RINO and remain conservative. Saying you can is no different than saying you can have sexual intercourse and remain a virgin.
Sadly the ABO screed is all we will hear.
Rush
Levin
Hannity
Palin
All have vowed to fight 100% for the nominee, which in my mind gave the GOPe the b@lls to stick with the 30 percenter to the end.
God help us all.
A man can lay 10,000 bricks, but that don’t make him a mason.
But just let him blank one blank....
So when Sarah Palin, Newt , Santorum and any other conservatives endorse Romney, which they will, you can tell them how they're all RIno’s now. And do you have any elected or other authoritative position that decides voting for one so called RINO makes you no longer a conservative? Just exactly why do you get to make this judgment on people? I can see Jim Robinson having the authority to kick whoever he
wants off his site, but you have no business telling people they're not conservative or anything else for that matter. You don't even know me and what I've done with the Tea Party or any other conservative group. If I supported Ronald Reagan over Barry Goldwater in the 60’s (if they had been in the same primary) would I lose my conservative credentials because I voted for the more liberal one on the political spectrum? Of course I could chalk that up to youthful indiscretion as I would have been about -6 years old.