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Purity or Strategy: The Debate We Need To Have: Would you rather put up with a RINO, or a Democrat?
Pajamas Media ^ | 02/22/2014 | Andrew Klavan

Posted on 02/23/2014 11:43:17 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

No difference between the two.


41 posted on 02/23/2014 12:17:57 PM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: GeronL

From what I have seen the enemy has been in our tent for quite a while. I’d rather see an honest enemy than a smiling traitor.


42 posted on 02/23/2014 12:18:27 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: KC_Lion

Yup. One of the reasons we can’t form a cohesive unit on this is that there are those who freely spread the GOPe Kool Aid with no repercussion.

We ALL stand for something or not. Time we all man the hell up and choose what side we’re on. RINO or Conservative. Shouldn’t be too hard.


43 posted on 02/23/2014 12:19:38 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: DanZ

You got that right. Voting in RINOs gave us what we have today. How many RINOs voted for or supported defunding ObamaCare? How may RINOs voted against raising the mega trillion national debt? How many RINOs support our tea party efforts? Any RINO who supports the GOP-e war on the tea party must be voted OUT!! He is our enemy as surely as any democrat.


44 posted on 02/23/2014 12:20:24 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Gaffer

Really you have any posts going after Hastert ir Delay for being RINO’s? Search mine and you’ll find plenty. I ask again the Republican party is much more conservative now then it was under W. So why the pass then and all the cautewalling now?


45 posted on 02/23/2014 12:20:26 PM PST by Blackirish
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To: SeekAndFind; Norm Lenhart; Jim Robinson
Do you vote for purity? Or the lesser of the two evils?

Purity. I'll never vote for evil, period.

46 posted on 02/23/2014 12:21:11 PM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: right way right

I’m not ready to actually vote for a Democrat, but I am certainly willing to be silent on the matter (i.e., cast a vote for neither).

In my lifetime, I can only think of two Democrats for whom I’d cast a vote now - maybe. One was Congressman Larry McDonald, and the other was Zell Miller. But I voted for neither at the time.


47 posted on 02/23/2014 12:21:48 PM PST by Gaffer (Comprehensive Immigration Reform is just another name for Comprehensive Capitulation)
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To: Political Junkie Too

We have to remember that in any election year when senate seats are up for grabs, typically only about 10 of them are going to be competitive.

The MSM can apply tremendous resources to attack candidates in these. What is depressing is when the Dems reveal their strategy (via journ-0-lists), Limbaugh talks about it for days on end, and these upstart challengers get suckered into making what is effectively a Democrat campaign commercial.


48 posted on 02/23/2014 12:22:41 PM PST by nascarnation (I'm hiring Jack Palladino to investigate Baraq's golf scores.)
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To: SeekAndFind

What strategy is it to vote for candidates that are no different from the Rats?


49 posted on 02/23/2014 12:22:50 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Blackirish

Are you blind or lying? There are about 5 solid conservatives in office right now. The rest Just voted in a blank check that dwarfs anything Bush era did by 10 orders of magnitude.

To start with.


50 posted on 02/23/2014 12:23:06 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: SeekAndFind
Preferences

1. Conservative Republican candidate who is capable of winning.
2. Not conservative Republican candidate (GOP-E) who is capable of winning
3. Conservative Republican candidate who is a longshot at best of winning against a democrat
4. Non conservative Republican candidate (GOP-E) who is a longshot at best of winning.
5. Third Party Protest Vote
6. Complete RINO
7. Anyone Else
8. Democrat
9. Joe Schwarz, my ex congressman. Special kind of RINO.

51 posted on 02/23/2014 12:23:38 PM PST by Darren McCarty (Abortion - legalized murder for convenience)
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To: Timber Rattler

RE: Purity. I’ll never vote for evil, period.

Won’t the end result (if enough people think like this) be for the GREATER evil to prevail ( e.g. Obamacare )?


52 posted on 02/23/2014 12:24:15 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Voting party over principle is the reason the GOP is FUBAR.


53 posted on 02/23/2014 12:24:55 PM PST by Manic_Episode (GOP = The Whig Party)
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To: Timber Rattler

Good. Those that would vote for lesser evil only bring greater evil. Which should be obvious to all since we live with the result of lesser evil voting every day.


54 posted on 02/23/2014 12:25:16 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: SeekAndFind
And yet… In general, Tea Party candidates tend to do well in congressional races where small, homogenous districts are in play. In Senate races where you need votes across an entire state, a primary victory for someone like Christine O’Donnell or Todd Akin may briefly fill the conservative heart with joy, but the loss of a Senate seat that could have been won is simply too high a price to pay for that momentary triumph.

Andrew, you bought into the false premise. Todd Akin is NOT tea party.

55 posted on 02/23/2014 12:25:19 PM PST by Darren McCarty (Abortion - legalized murder for convenience)
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To: SeekAndFind
Barack Obama is one of the most destructive presidents this country has ever seen, but a talented politician. If stopping him in his tracks requires stomaching some RINOs here and there, it seems a no brainer: It must be done.

The RINOS we have have now won't fight him!!! And yet... more RINOS is supposed to be the answer.

Let's stop the canard of the "lesser of two evils." We have two evils, and then there's conservatives.

56 posted on 02/23/2014 12:25:45 PM PST by workerbee (The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1!)
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To: SeekAndFind

RINO vs Democrat

Presumption that they are two different parties - I used to think so. I no longer do. We have one Central Party with two wings. Each wing uses wedge issues to electrify the segments that make up the wing, but only during elections. Once in office, it is back to crony capitalism and milking the system while the country goes deeper in debt and deeper into socialism.

If you do not believe me yet, please think...

1. Each wing has had complete control of elected national gov’t and neither has led us out of debt or towards more freedom, etc... despite campaign promises. I can only conclude we have exactly the kind of gov’t and limited freedom they want us to have. We have more government, less freedom, less money, fewer rights.

2. The next election cycle, they promise the same things to each “interest group” - and that is how RINOs who run the R party see conservatives, as a small special interest group they have to promise something to.

3. Each uses fear of the other to get you to vote for the “lesser evil”.

I realized this (and more) during the Dole era - final straw for me. I changed to independent. Conservative, but off the plantation. I did not vote for RINOmney. Wouldn’t have mattered in my state anyway, because Zero won by 10 million votes.

Those who are “true believers” refuse to believe or understand what I just wrote. There call.

In the next primary, they will hold forth on why there are “real conservatives” who can win, while RINOs work behind the scenes to steal the primary win (as RINOmney admitted). True Believers will condemn those of us who dare tell the truth about RINOmney, Dole, etc. - and it will be a huge waste of their energy. We are off the plantation. They are on it. They will vote for the RINO again and again and again. Nothing will change.

They will tell us if we do not vote for the RINO, there is no hope for change. Really? What change occurred under the two Bushes - a 12 year period, some of which controlled both houses of Congress?

It has become a lousy system.


57 posted on 02/23/2014 12:26:33 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: GeronL
The RINO’s are the ones who demand purity more than anyone. Oh No, that candidate is right on the issues but he said something dumb in a debate, “UNDER THAT BUS we need to vote RINO instead”

Like Democrats, they only want "compromised" from conservatives and NO ONE ELSE.

I'm done with them.

58 posted on 02/23/2014 12:26:42 PM PST by workerbee (The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1!)
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To: SeekAndFind

........so Klavan and Coulter are arguing for “moderation” in “principle” and that as long as it (moderation) is done in the name of “politics” it’s ok.

Thomas Paine and I disagree.

Maggie Thatcher, no moderate on principle, once said “the trouble with spending other people’s money is that pretty soon you run out of it”.

Arguably, the same can be said on this issue, to wit:........when the Mitch McConnels and John Cornyn’s of the world start spending “my principles” pretty soon they run out of them”.....

Then what?


59 posted on 02/23/2014 12:28:25 PM PST by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid!)
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To: Blackirish

“I ask again the Republican party is much more conservative now then it was under W.”

1. Both Bush’ were/are RINOs
- Read My Lips, No New TAXES
- Who did JR try to appoint to the Supreme Court?
- How did JR’s Supreme Court nominee turn out?

2. Do not conflate Conservative with the current spate of Adds being run by the RINOs


60 posted on 02/23/2014 12:28:57 PM PST by DanZ
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