To succeed in the long run is to make pragmatic choices trending in the desired direction.
***It’s okay to be pragmatic about strategy, but not about principles.
Alliances involve tradeoffs and negotiation toward the most acceptable alternatives meeting the needs of the majority of the representatives casting votes.
***And that is exactly what has happened. The tradeoff the GOP-E & Romney are engaging in is this: they think they don’t need conservatives to win this election, so they’re tossing us overboard. They are counting on enough conservatives to compromise their principles, hold their nose at the voting booth yet again, and to hell with the principled conservatives.
This website is a dedicated group of principled conservatives. At least, it used to be.
They are counting on enough conservatives to compromise their principles,
should be:
They are counting on enough self-described ‘conservatives’ to compromise their principles,
“The tradeoff the GOP-E & Romney are engaging in is this: they think they don’t need conservatives to win this election, so they’re tossing us overboard. They are counting on enough conservatives to compromise their principles, hold their nose at the voting booth yet again, and to hell with the principled conservatives.”
Bingo!