Ok, I “get it” that Boehner, McCain, and the rest of their ilk are RINOS who sell us out and whimp out constantly to the Dems.
I want them removed from influence/office as well, but doesn’t there need to be a better strategy than just, “Well, I’m not going to be a part of supporting these RINOs so I will just stay at home and not vote, or, vote for a Dem so the destruction happens more quickly.”
Isn’t that strategy what got us Obama in the first place??
Isn’t it better to win one war at a time? We are in a two-front war against a Roaring Lion, and a “yapping Jackal”. And, since we are in a two-front fight, is it not possible to do a holding action on one front while taking out the immediate threat on the other?
It’s not easy, but where is the intelligence of allowing the immediate threat the chance to destroy you now because you want to “teach the RINOS a lesson”?
I know I will hear, “the RINOs ARE the greater threat”. But, I don’t think so. Yes, they are definitely part of the big problem, but when your back is against the wall - which is where we’ve been these last 5 and a half years - you have to take out the Lion that’s right in your face (or donkey) first, then go full bore after the jackels - right?
Fight and win where you can, hold the line where you can, attack where you can, but never, never surrender! Incrementalism got us here, incrementalism can take us out of it. The Dems have done that for 60 years.
Surrendering to “prove a point” does not seem like a winning strategy to me.
Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is the definition of insanity. Holding your nose and voting for the GOPe will not change our current course of unsustainable spending and the expansion of the welfare state. The political class has become disconnected from the people. The GOP and the Dems are just different wings of the same Big Government party.
The time has come to draw a line in the sand and take a different path for the long term salvation of this country.
Except…
In the case of John Boehner.
It is VITAL that he be removed from office, so that his would-be followers are put on notice. Pour encourager les autres, as the French say.
If I lived in Boehner's district, and if he wins renomination, I would vote for the Democrat.
McConnell is a harder problem, because it's six years.